Article IX of New York State’s constitution establishes the basic constitutional framework for addressing questions of local power, local government organization, and state-local and interlocal relations in the Empire State. Premised on a commitment to “[e]ffective local self-government,” the “home rule amendment” added to the state constitution in 1963 and unamended since then, has bolstered local control over local government organization and personnel and has provided a firmer foundation for local law-making in New York. But it has not succeeded in enabling New York’s local units – its counties, cities, towns and villages – to function as efficient, effective, locally accountable governments. Article IX has done little to protect local g...
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This Article presents a study of "Our Localism"-- of the legal powers of contemporary American local...
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This Article presents a study of "Our Localism"-- of the legal powers of contemporary American local...
This Article has four parts. Part I examines Avery v. Midland County and the other Supreme Court cas...
One of the most elementary rules of municipal corporations is that the power and control of the legi...
Article IX of New York State’s constitution establishes the basic constitutional framework for addre...
This article is part of the special issue: District of Columbia: The State of Controvers
This Article explains and defends the National League of Cities’ Principles of Home Rule for the 21s...
This Article presents a study of "Our Localism"-- of the legal powers of contemporary American local...
Despite constitutional and statutory provisions providing for home rule, Washington municipalities c...
Part I deals with the relatively simple matter of authorizing municipalities to adopt and amend thei...
The National League of Cities’ “Principles of Home Rule for the Twenty-First Century” updates the Am...
Two themes dominate thejurisprudence of American local government law: the descriptive assertion tha...
This Article will examine the effect of municipal home rule on the doctrines that have developed to ...
A persistent theme in the literature on state-local relations has been the plenary power of state go...
This article is intended to provide a practical lens into how Home Rule issues unfold in complex mat...
In recent years, state legislatures have increasingly passed laws that prohibit or preempt local act...
This Article presents a study of "Our Localism"-- of the legal powers of contemporary American local...
This Article has four parts. Part I examines Avery v. Midland County and the other Supreme Court cas...
One of the most elementary rules of municipal corporations is that the power and control of the legi...