The snail darter was declared an endangered species in 1975 under the U. S. Endangered Species Act ( ESA ) of 1973 ; this halted construction of the dam for two years, until an amendment to the Act officially exempted Tellico.

After a long battle Congress finally exempted the Tellico Dam from the Endangered Species Act as an amendment in an unrelated bill.

At the end of May 2005, in an amendment to the Public Entertainment and Meetings Act ( Chapter 257 ), nine categories of arts entertainment events including ' displays or exhibitions of art objects or paintings ' were exempted from having to apply for a Public Entertainment Licence from the Media Development Authority ( MDA ).

For example, a clause in the 1980s amendment appears to set a 17 % limit for consumer loans ; but since they weren't exempted from the main " 5 % above discount rate " provision, the courts ruled that the limit for consumer loans was the lesser of the two clauses, usually the 5 % rule.

Lynch does not support an amendment to the State Constitution banning an income tax.

On June 16, 1909, President William Howard Taft, in an address to Congress, proposed a 2 % federal income tax on corporations by way of an excise tax and a constitutional amendment to allow the previously enacted income tax.

An income tax amendment to the Constitution was first proposed by Senator Norris Brown of Nebraska.

In 1910, New York Governor Charles Evans Hughes, shortly before becoming a Supreme Court Justice, spoke out against the income tax amendment.

While he supported the idea of a federal income tax, Hughes believed the words " from whatever source derived " in the proposed amendment implied that the federal government would have the power to tax state and municipal bonds.

To solve an impasse during the 1909 tariff debate, Taft proposed income taxes for corporations and a constitutional amendment to remove the apportionment requirement for taxes on incomes from property ( taxes on dividends, interest, and rents ), on June 16, 1909.

:: When, therefore, this court adjudges, as it does now adjudge, that Congress cannot impose a duty or tax upon personal property, or upon income arising either from rents of real estate or from personal property, including invested personal property, bonds, stocks, and investments of all kinds, except by apportioning the sum to be so raised among the States according to population, it practically decides that, without an amendment of the Constitution — two-thirds of both Houses of Congress and three-fourths of the States concurring — such property and incomes can never be made to contribute to the support of the national government.

The Sixteenth Amendment had recently been passed, and the U. S. Congress had enacted legislation pursuant to the amendment assessing taxes to the wealthiest of income earners, including the railroad company in this case.

As a result of this cooperation, du Pont signing into law two income tax reduction measures and a constitutional amendment that restrained future tax increases and limited government spending.

In a 1910 letter published by the New York Times, Root supported the proposed income tax amendment, which became the Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution:

It is said that a very large part of any income tax under the amendment would be paid by citizens of New York ....

He was a party to the re-structuring of the American financial system through the institution of the federal income tax amendment, which he originally opposed, and the Federal Reserve System.

In 1909, Aldrich introduced a constitutional amendment to establish an income tax, although he had declared a similar measure " communistic " a decade earlier.

Told that he will only get the land " when the Tories win Hackney ," Alan decides to destroy the Labour Party's voting base among the poor and working class by introducing an amendment to exempt all those with an income of less than £ 20, 000 from the poll tax, so long as they surrender their right to vote.

Originally introduced as a classical tax system, in which companies were subject to tax on their profits and companies ' shareholders were also liable to income tax on the dividends that they received, the first major amendment to corporation tax saw it move to an imputation system in 1973, under which an individual receiving a dividend became entitled to an income tax credit representing the corporation tax already paid by the company paying the dividend.

After twice calling the Alabama Legislature into special session, Miller was able to secure an amendment to the Constitution of Alabama permitting the collection of state income tax.

Regardless, the ruling in Pollock led to the need for a constitutional amendment to impose a federal income tax, and in 1913, the Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified.

As the state's second-highest elected statewide officeholder, Bullock aggressively pushed through a constitutional amendment requiring voter approval before a state personal income tax can be enacted and requiring the money be earmarked for education, if voters approve the tax.

* The Revenue Act of 1913, passed following the passage of the 16th amendment to the constitution which permitted income taxation, recognized the tax exempt nature of pension trusts.

A balanced-budget amendment is a constitutional rule requiring that the state cannot spend more than its income.

He argued the Sixteenth Amendment authorized Congress to tax “ incomes, from whatever source derived ”, and the authors of the amendment “ intended to include thereby everything which by reasonable understanding can fairly be regarded as income ”, and that “ Congress possesses the power which it exercised to make dividends representing profits, taxable as income, whether the medium in which the dividend is paid be cash or stock, and that it may define, as it has done, what dividends representing profits shall be deemed income ”.

Several fierce advocates of equal rights, such as Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner, abstained from voting because the amendment did not prohibit devices which states might use to restrict black suffrage, such as literacy tests and poll taxes.

The amendment would have required that people who have $ 500 worth of property and paid taxes to register for two years prior to an election.

Measure 5, an amendment to the Oregon Constitution ( Article XI, Section 11 ), established limits on Oregon's property taxes on real estate.

Grassley was eventually able to attach an amendment to a piece of legislation that went into effect in 2006, which increased taxes on Americans abroad by targeting housing and living incentives paid by foreign employers and held them accountable for federal taxes, even though they did not currently reside in the United States.

* No municipal or county authority which is authorized to construct, improve, or maintain any road or street on behalf of, pursuant to a contract with, or through the use of taxes or other revenues of a county or municipal corporation shall be created by any local Act or pursuant to any general Act nor shall any law specifically relating to any such authority be amended unless the creation of such authority or the amendment of such law is conditioned upon the approval of a majority of the qualified voters of the county or municipal corporation affected voting in a referendum thereon.

It is believed that it was a response to the Soviet Union's " diploma taxes " levied on Jews attempting to emigrate, although the amendment does not specifically mention Jews and the tax applied to all Soviet citizens, not only Jews.

An amendment to the measure also eliminates the major deductions mining companies may take when calculating net proceeds of minerals taxes.

Groups opposing the repeal of this amendment claimed that repeal would lead to court decisions requiring the state to raise taxes.

While serving in the Ohio Senate, he supported the Tax and Expenditure Limitation Amendment, a state constitutional amendment that would require a vote of the people in order to raise taxes or increase spending over certain limits.

Originally the budget had included only annual renewals of existing taxes – any amendment to taxes was part of a separate Act.

The " experiment " ( as President Hoover called it ) also cost the treasury large sums of taxes and the 18th amendment was repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment to the U. S. Constitution in 1933.

Since the Connally amendment has the effect of giving the same right to the other party to a dispute with the United States, it also prevents us from using the court effectively.

She also was the original GOP national committeewoman from New Jersey in the early 1920s following adoption of the women's suffrage amendment.

Arias thus remained barred from a second term as president ; however, in April 2003 – by which time two of the four judges who had voted against the change in 2000 had been replaced – the Court reconsidered the issue and, with the only dissenters being the two anti-reelection judges remaining from 2000, declared the 1969 amendment null and thus opened the way to reelection for former presidents – which in practice meant Arias.

This is used by all Old Paths ecclesias without amendment from the days of Robert Roberts.

No monetary payment was made from the US to the UK as part of this agreement or any subsequent amendment.

The administrative capital was moved from Bolama to Bissau in 1941, and in 1952, by constitutional amendment, the colony of Portuguese Guinea became an overseas province of Portugal.

While some in the legal sector advocated that the National People's Congress ( NPC ) should be asked to amend the part of the Basic Law to redress the problem, the HKSAR Government decided to seek an interpretation to, rather than an amendment of, the relevant Basic Law provisions from the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress ( NPCSC ).

In 2001, Senator Harry Reid sponsored an amendment to strip Hoover's name from the building.

In its judgment, the U. S. Supreme Court held that it lacked jurisdiction with respect to Germany's complaint against Arizona due to the eleventh amendment of the U. S. constitution, which prohibits federal courts from hearing lawsuits of foreign states against a U. S. state.

The events that trigger the sixth amendment safeguards under Massiah are ( 1 ) the commencement of adversarial criminal proceedings and ( 2 ) deliberate elicitation of information from the defendant by governmental agents.

On April 16, 1991, the parliament adopted a constitutional amendment removing " Socialist " from the official name of the country, and on June 7 of the same year, the new name, Republic of Macedonia, was officially established.

This amendment bars the U. S. Congress from giving itself a mid-term pay raise.

In 1985, the Knesset passed an amendment to Israel's Basic Law, barring " racist " candidates from election.

Somoza had also introduced a constitutional amendment that would prevent family members from succeeding him.

The amendment bars anyone from being elected president more than twice, or once if that person served more than half of another president's term.

Harry S. Truman, who was president when the amendment was adopted, and so by the amendment's provisions exempt from its limitation, also briefly sought a third ( a second full ) term before withdrawing from the 1952 election.

In July, 2010, by a vote of 373 to 323, the General Assembly voted to propose to the presbyteries for ratification a constitutional amendment to remove from the Book of Order section G-6. 0106. b. which included this explicit requirement for ordination: “ Among these standards is the requirement to live either in fidelity within the covenant of marriage between a man and a woman ( W-4. 9001 ), or chastity in singleness .” This proposal required ratification by a majority of the 173 presbyteries within 12 months of the General Assembly ’ s adjournment.

The Senate approved an amendment to the 1985 Defense Authorization Bill on June 13, 1985 which changed the precedence from immediately above the Good Conduct Medal to immediately above the Meritorious Service Medals.

Working with his brother Thomas ( also a Stanford graduate and a lawyer ), Crothers identified and corrected numerous major legal defects in the terms of the university's founding grant and successfully lobbied for an amendment to the California state constitution granting Stanford an exemption from taxation on its educational property — a change which allowed Jane Stanford to donate her stock holdings to the university.

Rhee regained control of parliament in the 1954 elections, and thereupon fraudulently pushed through an amendment to exempt himself from the eight-year term limit, and was once again re-elected in 1956.

The provision provoked a storm of controversy which within a year led Senator Hatch to propose, and Congress to pass, an amendment to delete from the statute all reference to secular humanism.

( Of course, as sovereign nations, each is free to withdraw from the arrangement, using their respective process for constitutional amendment, and no longer be united through common allegiance to the Crown.

In the case of proposed Quebec separation from Canada the Supreme Court of Canada in 1998 ruled that only both a clear majority of the province and a constitutional amendment confirmed by all participants in the Canadian federation could allow secession.