While administrative decision-making bodies are often controlled by larger governmental units, their decisions could be reviewed by a court of general jurisdiction under some principle of judicial review based upon due process ( United States ) or fundamental justice ( Canada ).

In a short time, however, he developed decided ability as a ruler ; on entering upon his inheritance he divided the duchy into governmental districts, took measures to suppress the robber-knights, and regulated the judicial system by defining and readjusting the jurisdiction of the various law courts.

When the jurisdictions of governmental entities overlap, one another — for example, between a state and the federation to which it belongs — their jurisdiction is shared or concurrent jurisdiction.

When jurisdiction is concurrent, one governmental entity may have supreme jurisdiction over the other entity if their laws conflict.

The original royal charters of the American colonies included broad grants of franchise jurisdiction along with other governmental powers to corporations or individuals, as did the charters for many other colonial companies such as the British East India Company and British South Africa Company.

While the federal government has sovereignty and responsibility in some matters apart from the say of sub-divisional governmental structures, the subdivisions also have sovereignty in some matters where the federal government does not have jurisdiction.

In North America the incoming 9-1-1 call is typically answered at the Public Safety Answering Point ( PSAP ) of the governmental agency that has jurisdiction over the caller's location ( see # Location below ).

Because telephone service boundaries did not always exactly match governmental and other jurisdictional boundaries, a user might dial 911, only to discover that he had been connected to the wrong dispatch center because he had telephone service from one location but lived within the boundaries of another jurisdiction.

The fire department's jurisdiction is organized by the governmental body that controls the department, although there are private fire departments as well.

As municipal seat, Oaxaca city has governmental jurisdiction over the following communities:

The Board's jurisdiction is limited to private sector employers and the United States Postal Service ; other than Postal Service employees, it has no authority over labor relations disputes involving governmental, railroad and airline employees covered by the Adamson Railway Labor Act, or agricultural employees.

* Gaming Control Board, any governmental body that regulates gambling in its jurisdiction

In construction, the authority having jurisdiction ( AHJ ) is the governmental agency or sub-agency which regulates the construction process.

Providing a full provision for regulating such insurance coverage in all its aspects, including the establishment and management of a State compensation insurance fund ; full provision for otherwise securing the payment of compensation ; and full provision for vesting power, authority and jurisdiction in an administrative body with all the requisite governmental functions to determine any dispute or matter arising under such legislation, in that the administration of such legislation accomplish substantial justice in all cases expeditiously, inexpensively, and without encumbrance of any character.

The United States territory includes clearly defined geographical area and refers to an area of land, air or sea under jurisdiction of United States federal governmental authority ( but is not limited only to these areas ).

However, while the Council of State has supreme appellate jurisdiction for administrative appeals, it also has original jurisdiction on a number of matters brought against national governmental authorities including cases against statutory instruments ( executive and ministerial orders ) and certain types of administrative decisions.

Many governmental bodies that are titled ' tribunals ' are so described to emphasize the fact that they are not courts of normal jurisdiction.

The court of basic general jurisdiction is State Supreme Court, which hears felonies and major misdemeanors, significant lawsuits, and governmental and elections matters.

However, the Lord President also held that " there is neither precedent nor authority of any kind for the view that the domestic Courts of either Scotland or England have jurisdiction to determine whether a governmental act of the type here in controversy is or is not conform to the provisions of a Treaty " and " it has not been shown that the Court of Session has authority to entertain the issue sought to be raised ".< ref > MacCormick v Lord Advocate < nowiki ></ nowiki > SLT 255 at p 263 </ ref >

The Court also has jurisdiction to ensure compliance with the Constitution of Ireland by governmental bodies and private citizens.

Each governmental jurisdiction prescribes the form of the document for use in its preview and the procedures necessary to legally produce it.

) Because the prefectural status of Hokkaido is denoted by the dō in its name, it is rarely referred to as " Hokkaido Prefecture ", except when necessary to distinguish the governmental entity from the island.

Some conciliators operate under the auspices of any one of several non-governmental entities, and for governmental agencies such as the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service in the United States.

During World War II, she was an advisor to several governmental groups, providing expertise on education and labor ( particularly women in the workforce ) for organizations such as for the War Manpower Commission, the Office of War Information, and the United States Navy.

While several powers are the sovereign's alone, because she lives predominantly in the United Kingdom, most of the royal governmental and ceremonial duties in Canada are carried out by the Queen's representative, the governor general.

After his premiership, Cals semi-retired from active politics and served as a civil servant leading several governmental commissions.

One of the primary myths initially believed by communities facing environmental injustice is that the government is “ on our side .” According to Luke W. Cole, this myth is shared more widely among white Americans than among minorities, probably because minorities have historically faced several levels of governmental injustice.

Organized by governmental sectors of City Council, City Management, City Secretary, and several City Departments, Corpus Christi is seated in Nueces County.

GH has been studied for use in raising livestock more efficiently in industrial agriculture and several efforts have been made to obtain governmental approval to use GH in livestock production.

Transports flew in support of the Army, Navy and other allied military and civil forces in the Malayan Emergency, Korean War, Vietnam War, the Gulf War and the US and NATO led operations in Afghanistan, as well as supporting several UN missions such as UNTAET while carrying out peacetime tasks for governmental and civilian purposes.

However, if a Deputy Prime Minister is absent or has not been appointed, the minister in the cabinet who has served the longest time – and if there are several with equal experience, the one who is oldest – takes over as acting head of government ( see Swedish governmental line of succession for the present governmental line of succession ).

The controversy deals with the question of whether the structure of socio-political action should be viewed as a more or less centralized process of acts and decisions by a class of key leaders, representing integrated hierarchies of influence in society or whether it is more accurately envisaged as several sets of relatively autonomous opinion and influence groups, interacting with representative decision makers in an official structure of differentiated governmental authority.

In addition to former Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell, Villanova has produced several military and governmental officials.

He continued to take a broad view of governmental powers, demonstrated in his dissenting opinion in the case ofYoungstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer, which ruled unconstitutional President Truman's wartime seizure of several steel mills to avert a workers ' strike.

However, she trusted several eunuchs and permitted them to interfere in governmental matters.

Building on successes such as beating the Blue Train for the first time in 1930 in the Blue Train Races, the Wilks Brothers established Rover as a company with several European royal, aristocratic, and governmental warrants, and upper-middle-class and star clients.

The Town of Scarsdale is coextensive with the Village of Scarsdale, but the community has opted to operate solely with a village government, one of several villages in the state that have a similar governmental situation.

* Southwest, Western Australia, several governmental divisions in Western Australia

* Local Government Area, a type of governmental entity in several countries

In 1893, after working in several governmental positions, he became Finance Minister of Italy and tried to resolve the Banca Romana scandal.

Additionally there have been several recent governmental studies and regulations enacted due to the poisonous nature of the phthalates and dioxins contained within all PVC vinyl air beds and other soft vinyl products.

Also included was Europe's massive population of Ashkenazi Jews from several areas of Eastern Europe generally known as the Pale of Settlement ( a region within the Russian Empire designated under anti-Semitic governmental policies as the only area in which Jews were allowed to settle permanently, and which included primarily areas of far western Russia, the modern-day countries of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Belarus, and the remnants of the former kingdom of Galicia, an historic ethnic region with a huge Jewish population, now divided between southeastern Poland and the western Ukraine ).

Although the initial intent of the Forum was to raise public awareness and support on a national level, over the last several years, the National Forum on Information Literacy has made significant strides internationally in promoting the importance of integrating information literacy concepts and skills throughout all educational, governmental, and workforce development programs.

These include certificates of recognition from several governmental bodies in the United States-including Honorary Citizenship awarded by The State of Georgia and city of Atlanta.

During Stalin's rule, Mikoyan held several high governmental posts, including that of Minister of Foreign Trade.