Districts of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region: 1.

Occupying a middle ground between incorporated and unincorporated areas are Special Tax Districts, quasi-municipal unincorporated areas created by legislation passed by the Maryland General Assembly.

There are eight Special Tax Districts in the county:

There are 58 California counties, 480 California cities, and about 3, 400 Special Districts and School Districts.

Two areas formerly incorporated as cities were re-organized as Special Service Districts, Willimantic ( 1983 ) and Putnam ( 1984 ).

* A Citizen's Guide to Special Districts in California

* California Special Districts Association

The area was earmarked as one of two Special Natural Features Districts in the City of New York, and between 1972 and 1974 the urbanist Peter Verity ( now of PDRc ) prepared for the New York City Planning Commission the strategic and detailed documentation to support this designation.

Special ' Q ' or qualifying tyres of extreme softness and grip were typically used during grid-qualifying sessions until their use was discontinued at the end of the 2008 season, but they lasted typically no longer than one or two laps, though they could deliver higher qualifying speeds.

* Special effects have to deliver the imitations of physical actions on stage, such as explosions, fireworks, fog, or even earthquakes that are often part of the story.

With this, the Special Court became the first-ever UN backed tribunal to deliver a guilty verdict for the military conscription of children.

In 2008 Baird was invited to Canberra as a guest of the Australian Government to deliver the keynote address on the development of Special Domestic Violence Courts at a national conference and held a series of meetings with commonwealth and government and non-government agencies.

The SEAL Delivery Vehicle or ( SDV ) is a manned submersible and a type of Swimmer Delivery Vehicle used to deliver United States Navy SEALs and their equipment for special operations missions and is also operated by the Royal Navy's Special Boat Service who operates 3 SDV's.

A Special Master in arbitration subsequently ruled that the Giants must deliver the entire $ 1 million to Burress, as per the collective bargaining agreement.

The car is powered by 4. 6 or 5. 0 litre engines supplied by Ford's Special Vehicles Team ( SVT ) in America which can be tuned by Invicta to deliver up to 600 bhp and has a claimed top speed of upwards of 320 km / h.

Special kinds of gelatin indicate the specific animal that was used for its production.

Special surface treatments can be used in liquid crystal devices to force specific orientations of the director.

# Providing substantive and administrative support to human rights fact-finding and investigatory mechanisms, such as special rapporteurs, representatives and experts and working groups mandated by the Commission on Human Rights and / or the Economic and Social Council to deal with specific country situations or phenomena of human rights violations worldwide, as well as the General Assembly's Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People and Other Arabs of the Occupied Territories ;

Special structures are also used to store the specific information SDL needs to handle.

Special versions of teleprinters had FIGS characters for specific applications, such as weather symbols for weather reports.

Special interest groups advocate the cause of their specific constituency.

* Statement of Special Educational Needs, outlining specific provision needed for a child in England

Special procedures also include working groups made up of up to five experts who monitor and investigate specific human rights concerns.

Before 1981, Special Achievement Oscars were twice awarded to makeup artists for their work on a specific film:

The UN Special Rapporteur concludes that this " general structure of apartheid that exists in the Occupied Palestinian Territories ... makes the allegation increasingly credible despite the differences between the specific characteristics of South African apartheid and that of the Occupied Palestinian Territories regime ".

RIT's dormitories are home to seven " Special Interest Houses " — Art House, Computer Science House, Engineering House, House of General Science, Photo House, International House, and Unity House — which provide an environment to live immersed in a specific interest, such as art, engineering, or computing.

** RCMP Special Constables are appointed for specific skills, for example, aboriginal language skills.

Special categories have also been introduced for specific years.

Special hidden songs could be accessed for certain append discs if the discs were changed through a specific order.

While analogous in structure to the FBI, the CBI's powers and function are severely limited to specific crimes based on Acts ( mainly the Delhi Special Police Establishment Act, 1946 ).

Special names for specific types of curses can be found in various cultures:

The sixth and final quarterly report, dated August 3, 2011, states that Stevens completed on schedule the agreed upon changes to its governance procedures and that “ Special Counsel now finds Stevens to be in full compliance with the terms of the Consent Judgment .” While the specific compliance requirements have been fulfilled, the special counsel will continue to monitor certain activities of Stevens through February 2012.

Special assistance schools aim to improve the lives of their students by providing services tailored to very specific needs of individual students.

His specific research work at Fort Detrick's Special Operations Division has never been revealed, but he was clearly involved in biological weapons research.

On July 24, 1974, the Supreme Court ruled that the Special Prosecutor did have the right to sue the President ; and that " the generalized assertion of privilege must yield to the demonstrated, specific need for evidence in a pending criminal trial ".

A Special Interest Group ( SIG ) is a community with an interest in advancing a specific area of knowledge, learning or technology where members cooperate to affect or to produce solutions within their particular field, and may communicate, meet, and organize conferences.

Special To Arm training is specific to the type of unit the Subaltern is joining, for example, the 2 week Platoon Commander's Battle Course held at the Infantry Battle School in Brecon.

Although the CIA will not release publicly the specific dates from 1985 to 2002 when she worked for it, due to security concerns, Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald affirmed that Plame " was a CIA officer from January 1, 2002, forward " and that " her association with the CIA was classified at that time through July 2003.

He then took up his post as Commanding Officer of 666 Squadron, RAF, a Special Duties squadron that fought in the Battle of Britain before being sent around the world on specific assignments.

In the United States, the largest public collections are those in the Special Collections of the Free Library of Philadelphia, and the Lloyd Cotsen Children ’ s Library at Princeton University.

All public airports in Colombia are managed and controlled by the Special Administrative Unit of Civil Aeronautics.

On 15 February 2008 Serbian Minister of Defence Dragan Sutanovac was pictured testing a Barnett crossbow during a public exercise of the Serbian army's Special Forces in Nis, 200 km south of capital Belgrade.

Among the many political documentaries produced in the early 1970s was " Chile: A Special Report ," public television's first in-depth expository look of the September 1973 overthrow of the Salvador Allende government in Chile by military leaders under Augusto Pinochet, produced by documentarians Ari Martinez and José Garcia.

Special libraries may or may not be accessible to some identified part of the general public.

The growing movement in art paralleled developments in physics, such as Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity ( 1905 ); innovations in industry, such as the development of the internal combustion engine ; and the increased role of the social sciences in public policy.

* Special Music School, a public school ( P. S.

They have various missions and objectives including promoting civic education ; undertaking research on economic social and political policies ; promoting " public understanding of and participation in the political, economic, and social development of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region ".

Despite the fact that the allegations were backed by successive UN Special Rapporteurs and a Canadian Government investigation, Bildt succeeded in winning the public controversy in Sweden, allowing Lundin Oil to pursue its activities in Sudan.

English Heritage, a public body responsible for the management and maintenance of England's significant historical architecture and archaeology, has proclaimed Bacup as the best preserved cotton town in England ; the town centre has been designated a Conservation Area of Special Architectural and Historic Interest.

During her public trials at the " Special Court ", Jiang Qing was the only member of the Gang of Four who bothered to argue on her behalf.

BCCI was among the first foreign banks awarded a license to operate in the Chinese Special Economic Zone of Shenzhen which bore testament to Agha Hasan Abedi's public relations skills, a feat that had yet to be achieved by the likes of Citicorp and JP Morgan.

Special legislation gives the navigation of the waterways equal status with the conservation and public enjoyment of the area.

Special emphasis is placed on three areas: works concerning the geographic regions spanning the Canadian Northwest and the American West ; innovative and experimental works that challenge the established canons, subjects and formats, with special interest in art and architecture ; and internationally focused manuscripts with particular attention to Latin America, World Heritage Sites, international relations and public policy.

* The Pulaski County Special School District is the county's public school district for surrounding Little Rock and North Little Rock, which maintain independent districts.

* Special Communications Organization, a public telecommunication company operating in Azad Kashmir, Pakistan

Special schools are public schools designed for children or youth with chronic disabilities or who for other reasons cannot be accommodated in the comprehensive school system.

Many police forces, such as the London Metropolitan Police Service, have dedicated divisions to deal with public order situations ( see Territorial Support Group, Special Patrol Group, Compagnies Républicaines de Sécurité, Mobiele Eenheid, Arrest Units ).

Between 22 September 1916 and 2 December 1918, the port and town of Newhaven were designated a ' Special Military Area ' under the ' Defence of the Realm Regulations ', and the Harbour station was closed to the public.

Special districts serve limited areas and have governing boards that accomplish legislatively assigned functions using public funds.

Special districts, like all public entities, have public foundation.

A number of public consultations were made throughout 2007 and although efforts were made to limit environmental damage the scheme would cause disruption to three designated ecological areas and a Site of Special Scientific Interest ( SSSI ) at Gernon Bushes.