Findings and Purpose. A. The legislature finds and declares that effective law enforcement is dependent upon the maintenance of stable relations between peace officers and their employers. Moreover, the existence of stable relations between peace officers and their employers will enhance law enforcement services provided to the citizens of New Mexico.
B. The purpose of the Peace Officer's Employer-Employee Relations act is to prescribe certain rights for peace officers, particularly, when they are placed under investigation by their employer.
C. Provisions of this act only apply to administrative actions and shall not apply to criminal investigations of a peace officer except as provided in Section 8 of this act.
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. 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. [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. 8 The legislature finds that violations of section 44-7101 threaten the 9 integrity of the tobacco master settlement agreement, the fiscal soundness of 10 the state and the public health. The legislature finds that enacting 11 procedural enhancements will aid the enforcement of section 44-7101 and 12 thereby safeguard the master settlement agreement, the fiscal soundness of 13 the state and the public health.
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 outright sale of real property be- ing restricted as a matter of public policy and as a constitutional mandate, the leasehold transaction over real estate has become the most common economic activity that spurs investments from both foreign and local sources. It has been observed, however, that lessors encounter delays in evicting holdover tenants after the termination of the lease or breach of the lease agreement. Currently, an action for eviction of a holdover tenant must be filed as a breach of contract complaint, in which the landlord or lessor incurs court costs and attorney’s fees. This legal remedy can take months and even years, before a tenant is evicted from the leased premis- es and the landlord or lessor is restored to possession. These prolonged proceedings are an unfair denial of the landlords right to possession and result in considerable court costs and legal fees which are borne by the landlord. The purpose of this act is to provide for a prompt and fair sum- xxxx procedure for the eviction of a holdover tenant from the leased premises.
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. In enacting this article, the city council states the following findings and purposes:
Findings and Purpose. Subdivision 1. Energy planning. The legislature finds and declares that continued
