Findings and Purpose Clause Samples

Findings and Purpose. In enacting this article, the city council states the following findings and purposes: (a) Income from full-time work should be sufficient to meet an individual’s basic needs; (b) The City of Burlington is committed to ensuring that its employees have an opportunity for a decent quality of life and are compensated such that they are not dependent on public assistance to meet their basic needs; (c) The City of Burlington is committed, through its contracts with vendors and provision of financial assistance, to encourage the private sector to pay its employees a livable wage and contribute to employee health care benefits; (d) The creation of jobs that pay livable wages promotes the prosperity and general welfare of the City of Burlington and its residents, increases consumer spending with local businesses, improves the economic welfare and security of affected employees and reduces expenditures for public assistance; (e) It is the intention of the city council in passing this article to provide a minimum level of compensation for employees of the City of Burlington and employees of entities that enter into service contracts or receive financial assistance from the City of Burlington. (Ord. of 11-19-01; Ord. of 10-21-13)

Findings and Purpose. (1) The Mayor and Council find that the City’s Rights-of-Way constitute valuable public property, (a) Having been acquired and maintained by the City over many years at taxpayer expense; (b) Being capable of providing Rights-of-Way uniquely valuable to private companies for providing Cable Services; (c) Constituting public investments for which the taxpayers are entitled to a fair monetary return on the City’s past and future investment in the City’s infrastructure; and (d) Comprising significant assets which should be managed fairly and appropriately to enhance the public safety and economy.

Findings and Purpose. A. The foregoing recitals are incorporated in this Agreement as the findings of the parties. B. The purpose of this Agreement is to establish the mutual rights and responsibilities of the District and Community in order to complete the Rail Project.

Findings and Purpose. The legislature finds that violations of section 44‑7101 threaten the integrity of the tobacco master settlement agreement, the fiscal soundness of the state and the public health. The legislature finds that enacting procedural enhancements will aid the enforcement of section 44‑7101 and thereby safeguard the master settlement agreement, the fiscal soundness of the state and the public health.

Findings and Purpose. [A State may elect to delete the “findings and purposes” section in its entirety. Other changes or substitutions with respect to the “findings and purposes” section (except for particularized state procedural or technical requirements) will mean that the statute will no longer conform to this model.] (a) Cigarette smoking presents serious public health concerns to the State and to the citizens of the State. The Surgeon General has determined that smoking causes lung cancer, heart disease and other serious diseases, and that there are hundreds of thousands of tobacco-related deaths in the United States each year. These diseases most often do not appear until many years after the person in question begins smoking. (b) Cigarette smoking also presents serious financial concerns for the State. Under certain health-care programs, the State may have a legal obligation to provide medical assistance to eligible persons for health conditions associated with cigarette smoking, and those persons may have a legal entitlement to receive such medical assistance. (c) Under these programs, the State pays millions of dollars each year to provide medical assistance for these persons for health conditions associated with cigarette smoking. (d) It is the policy of the State that financial burdens imposed on the State by cigarette smoking be borne by tobacco product manufacturers rather than by the State to the extent that such manufacturers either determine to enter into a settlement with the State or are found culpable by the courts. (e) On _______, 1998, leading United States tobacco product manufacturers entered into a settlement agreement, entitled the “Master Settlement Agreement,” with the State. The Master Settlement Agreement obligates these manufacturers, in return for a release of past, present and certain future claims against them as described therein, to pay substantial sums to the State (tied in part to their volume of sales); to fund a national foundation devoted to the interests of public health; and to make substantial changes in their advertising and marketing practices and corporate culture, with the intention of reducing underage smoking. (f) It would be contrary to the policy of the State if tobacco product manufacturers who determine not to enter into such a settlement could use a resulting cost advantage to derive large, short-term profits in the years before liability may arise without ensuring that the State will have an eventual source of recovery fro...

Findings and Purpose. The Legislature finds that current law exempts particular departments, agencies and other entities from the blanket prohibition on the hiring of nonresident workers by the Commonwealth Government and allows these entities to hire nonresident workers with limited restrictions. The Legislature also finds that sound social policy dictates that the Commonwealth Government reduce and eventually phase out its reliance on nonresident labor. The Legislature further finds that, in accordance with [PL 7-45], the exemptions for some of the entities have expired on September 30, 1995. The Legislature also recognizes that there is yet an insufficient locally available labor pool to supply the professional and technical needs for some of these Commonwealth government entities. For example, the local labor pool is presently incapable of supplying sufficient numbers of doctors, dentists, nurses, auditors, mechanics and teachers. To accommodate both the social policy of phasing out nonresident labor and the economic reality of current continued need, it is the purpose of this legislation to provide a mechanism whereby the number of nonresident workers employed by the Commonwealth government will be reduced by governmental responsibility and accountability. This legislation will extend the sunset provision imposed by [PL 7-45] to September 30, 2000. The Legislature further finds that it was the intent of [PL 7-45] to restrict the Commonwealth government from hiring nonresident workers both directly and indirectly through the use of manpower services or agencies. It is the further purpose of this legislation to insure that all exempted government entities are actively working toward phasing out the reliance on nonresident workers. Therefore, this legislation requires each of the exempt government entities to develop a comprehensive manpower training and education plan in coordination with the Northern Marianas College and the Office of Personnel Management. This plan must include a management intern program for employees to receive the necessary job- skills training and/or education to eventually fill the positions currently occupied by non-resident workers. Furthermore, each government entity authorized under this Act to hire nonresident workers shall report annually, in writing, to the presiding officers of each house of the Legislature on the progress and status of this plan. With respect to the former references to the “director” of the Department of Commerce and Labor, ...

Findings and Purpose. The Legislature finds that current law exempts particular departments, agencies and other entities from the blanket prohibition on the hiring of nonresident workers with limited restrictions. The Legislature further finds that, in accordance with Public Law 12-34, the exemptions for some of the entities excluded the Marianas Visitors Authority (MVA) on the hiring of nonresident workers with limited restrictions. The Legislature is also cognizant that there is an insufficient locally available labor pool to supply the professional and technical needs of MVA. Therefore, the Legislature is including MVA under the nonresident worker exemptions listing. The Legislature promotes the privatization of governmental agencies when feasible and practicable, and will continue to review MVA policies to ensure that agency goals are realized effectively and efficiently.

Findings and Purpose. The Legislature finds that because of the limited number of qualified resident workers and budgetary constraints in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the Department, of Public Works should continue to hire nonresident workers to fill technical and professional positions within the department. This Act extends the hiring deadline established by Public Law 13-20 to September 30, 2005.

Findings and Purpose. The Legislature finds that the Commonwealth has experienced numerous problems with health clearances and criminal background checks fraudulently obtained in foreign countries to support applications for entry and work permits in the Commonwealth. It is imperative that such clearances be provided only from reputable and reliable sources if the Commonwealth's interest in protecting the public health and the security of persons and property in the Commonwealth is to be properly served. The Legislature further finds that United States authorities, including the U.S. Department of State and the Immigration and Naturalization Service of the Department of Justice, maintain lists of reputable and reliable agencies and entities in foreign countries that are deemed acceptable by Federal agencies requiring health clearances or criminal background checks. These U.S. certifications provide a good foundation for determining sources Commonwealth immigration and labor authorities can accept with confidence. It is the purpose of this Act to address weaknesses in current practice arising from too liberal acceptance of foreign clearances and strengthen the Commonwealth's system of immigration control by limiting acceptance of health clearances and criminal background checks to those obtained from preapproved agencies and entities identified as provided by this Act.