Meeting in New Delhi under the auspices of the International Commission of Jurists, a body of lawyers from the free world, the Congress redefined and expanded the traditional Rule of Law to include affirmative governmental duties.

Their duties include evaluation of the information collected and preparation of recommendations.

Typical duties of boards of directors include:

The duties of the cardinals include attending the meetings of the College and making themselves available individually or in groups to the pope if he requests their counsel.

Some unresolved issues regarding citizenship include questions about what is the proper balance between duties and rights.

The mayor's duties include running city council meetings and approves or vetoes all actions taken by the council members, and can vote in case of a tie.

Environmental agencies often include separate enforcement offices, with duties including monitoring permitted activities, performing compliance inspections, issuing citations and prosecuting wrongdoing ( civilly or criminally, depending on the violation ).

In addition, while formally the Emperor's duties include appointing the Prime Minister to office, article 6 of the constitution requires him to appoint the candidate " as designated by the Diet " ( in practice, the candidate designated by the House of Representatives ), without any right to decline appointment.

Contemporary issues include problems with border controls causing persistent truck queues at the border, airspace violations, pollution of the Baltic Sea, and Russian duties on exported wood to Finland's pulp and paper industry.

Its duties have expanded over the years, and today, according to official Federal Reserve documentation, include conducting the nation's monetary policy, supervising and regulating banking institutions, maintaining the stability of the financial system and providing financial services to depository institutions, the U. S. government, and foreign official institutions.

In 2007, the Marine Corps announced an intention to replace all HMMWVs in Iraq with MRAPs due to high loss rates, and issued contracts for the purchase of several thousand of these vehicles, which include the International MaxxPro, M-ATV, the BAE OMC RG-31, the BAE RG-33 and Caiman, and the Force Protection Cougar, which have been deployed with the Army and Marines primarily for mine clearing duties.

The IFV's mission does not include anti-tank duties except in support of tank units or in emergencies ; therefore, it needs less protection from heavy weapons fire.

Various adaptations of job-analytic methods include competency modeling, which examines large groups of duties and tasks related to a common goal or process, and practice analysis, which examines the way work is performed in an occupation across jobs.

The Customs and Harbour police were amalgamated with the Navy in 1970, extending the Navy's mission to include anti-smuggling and customs duties.

Police functions include protecting life and property, enforcing criminal law, criminal investigations, regulating traffic, crowd control, and other public safety duties.

Some of the Committee's duties include the confirmation of a new Praetor, and to hear criminal charges brought against Romulan Senators ( in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode " Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges ", the Continuing Committee convened to hear evidence of treason on the part of Senator Kimara Cretak ).

Typically, the British government agreed to pay a chief a stipend in return for a commitment from him to keep the peace with his neighbours ; other specific commitments extracted from a chief might include keeping roads open, allowing the British to collect customs duties, and submitting disputes with his neighbours to British adjudication.

The NADSTF duties include the following of organized crime groups, working in coverage, protecting important witnesses, preparing for actions sooner than the crimes are committed and arresting highly dangerous criminals.

The trust's affairs may include investing the assets of the trust, ensuring trust property is preserved and productive for the beneficiaries, accounting for and reporting periodically to the beneficiaries concerning all transactions associated with trust property, filing any required tax returns on behalf of the trust, and other duties.

On July 3, 2007, the Court ( through the original three-judge panel ) ruled ( 1 ) that the taxpayer's compensation was received on account of a non-physical injury or sickness ; ( 2 ) that gross income under section 61 of the Internal Revenue Code does include compensatory damages for non-physical injuries, even if the award is not an " accession to wealth ," ( 3 ) that the income tax imposed on an award for non-physical injuries is an indirect tax, regardless of whether the recovery is restoration of " human capital ," and therefore the tax does not violate the constitutional requirement of Article I, Section 9, Clause 4, that capitations or other direct taxes must be laid among the states only in proportion to the population ; ( 4 ) that the income tax imposed on an award for non-physical injuries does not violate the constitutional requirement of Article I, Section 8, Clause 1, that all duties, imposts and excises be uniform throughout the United States ; ( 5 ) that under the doctrine of sovereign immunity, the Internal Revenue Service may not be sued in its own name.

" Some of the powers and duties according to the constitution include:

The specific duties of the Secretary of State include:

The original duties of the Secretary of State include some domestic duties, such as:

The duties include safeguarding the unity, security, honor, and interests of the country, observing law and social ethics, paying taxes, and serving in the military.

As always with Secretaries of Defense, the formulation of the Defense budget and shepherding it through Congress was one of Perry's most important duties.

Kant divides the duties imposed by this formulation into two subsets:

Doubleday assumed administrative duties in the defenses of Washington, D. C., where he was in charge of courts martial, which gave him legal experience that he used after the war.

Stevenson has also noted that some definitions are " legal " or " coercive ", whose object is to create or alter rights, duties or crimes.

The Holy See has been recognised, both in state practise and in the writing of modern legal scholars, as a subject of public international law, with rights and duties analogous to those of States.

It has been argued that resolutions passed outside of Chapter VII can also be binding ; the legal basis for that is the Council's broad powers under Article 24 ( 2 ), which states that " in discharging these duties ( exercise of primary responsibility in international peace and security ), it shall act in accordance with the Purposes and Principles of the United Nations ".

Political philosophy is the study of such topics as politics, liberty, justice, property, rights, law, and the enforcement of a legal code by authority: what they are, why ( or even if ) they are needed, what, if anything, makes a government legitimate, what rights and freedoms it should protect and why, what form it should take and why, what the law is, and what duties citizens owe to a legitimate government, if any, and when it may be legitimately overthrown, if ever.

Their high status is partly from their extensive training requirements, and also because of their occupation's special ethical and legal duties.

An interpretivist theory of law holds that legal rights and duties are determined by the best interpretation of the political practices of a particular community.

* a sovereign or head of state who is the nominal or legal and constitutional holder of executive power, and holds numerous reserve powers, but whose daily duties mainly consist of performing ceremonial functions.

He argued that he had called a legal, not an illegal, assembly as part of his duties as a minister of the Kirk.

Divorce ( or the dissolution of marriage ) is the final termination of a marital union, canceling the legal duties and responsibilities of marriage and dissolving the bonds of matrimony between the parties ( unlike annulment, which declares the marriage null and void ).

The duties and virtues inherent in the Buddhist dharma ( religious law ) played a large role in the new legal code, which remained in force until the 1960s.

The example of early 18th century England legal reform shows how civic lotteries can be used to organize the duties and responsibilities of the citizen body in relation to the state.

In the Byzantine Empire, the still autocratic Emperors passed general legal measures assigning all bishops certain rights and duties in the secular administration of their dioceses, but that was part of a caesaropapist development putting the Eastern Church in the service of the Empire, with its Ecumenical Patriarch almost reduced to the Emperor's minister of religious affairs.

The term implies a territorial domain, within which the duke has actual subjects or significant land holdings, with respect to which the duke has or had unique legal privileges, e. g. sovereignty or manorial rights or entitlement to certain duties or income from residents ( e. g. the corvée ), etc.

In addition to his university duties, he had a large legal practice in London.

The legal provisions arising from the Praetor's Edict were known as ius honorarium ; in theory the Praetor did not have power to alter the law, but in practice the Edict altered the rights and duties of individuals and was effectively a legislative document.

Off-court legal distraction from Jamaal Tinsley, Marquis Daniels, and Shawne Williams in the middle of the season did not help the Pacers struggles, and injuries to Tinsley and Jermaine O ' Neal damaged the Pacers ' already weak defense and left almost all point guard duties to recently acquired Travis Diener, who saw minimal minutes on his previous NBA teams.

In practice, the specific combination of legal, political, and ceremonial duties of a sheriff varies greatly from country to country.

* Sheriffs are administrative legal officials similar to bailiffs in the Republic of Ireland, Australia, and Canada ( with expanded duties in certain provinces ).

EMAS ‘ s structure and material requirements are more demanding, foremost concerning performance improvement, legal compliance and reporting duties.

The same or a different minimum age may be applicable to, for example, parents losing parenting rights and duties regarding the person concerned, parents losing financial responsibility, marriage, voting, having a job, serving in the military, buying / possessing firearms ( if legal at all ), driving, traveling abroad, involvement with alcoholic beverages ( if legal at all ), smoking, sex, gambling ( both lottery and casino ) being a prostitute or a client of a prostitute ( if legal at all ), being a model or actor in pornography, etc.