sunset law

What this country needs is a mandatory sunset law for state Things.

Q. Some people suggest that foundations be subject to sunset laws: limits on how long they last.

A confused discussion of "contracts" and "the sunset law" ensued.

Colorado initiated "sunset laws" that closed down new agencies unless legislatures explicitly renewed them.

In the 1800's, New Jersey adopted "sunset laws" that required the polls to close before factories let out for the day.

Arizona's statute criminalizing unauthorized practice of law was allowed to lapse from a sunset law in 1985.

The state demand could not be increased but payment should be made on the due date, before sunset and so it is also known as the 'Sunset Law'.

After a wrangle among the board members over who would head the various committees to study this or that problem, Ellis began a rather mysterious monologue on "the sunset law."

One of the strategies to implement this design was the ruthless operation of the sunset law (law which required the lords to submit their revenues by sunset).

McKinley article "Sunrises Without Sunsets: Can Sunset Laws Reduce Regulation?"

He authored the bill creating the Texas Commission on Human Rights, as well as a law outlawing "cop killer" bullets and a "sunset law" requiring periodic review of government agencies.

However, he is best known as the author of a federal "sunset law" that would require every federal program not specifically written into the Constitution to justify its existence to taxpayers within 12 years or face elimination.

He is the author of the important "Sunset Law" designed to abolish state agencies and boards that cannot prove their worth, and he fought for public initiative in Georgia during his eight years of service.

Sunset laws allowing the opening of old files are one reason that museums can now feature cold war items, said Dennis Barrie, the president of Malrite and the director of the International Spy Museum, which will include a restaurant and spy theme cafe.