No by(e)-laws in Spain? Certainly a thing in the UK, Ireland and I believe US and Canada. Is that a common law thing?

Mordisquitos 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Local authorities in Spain do have the authority to enact their own law-ish regulations, which are called 'ordenanzas'. For example, if I remember correctly, motorbikes are allowed to park on the pavement by default in Barcelona unless a sign says otherwise, but it is forbidden in Madrid unless a sign explicitly allows it.

I think local government in Spain has at least as much authority as it does in the UK, maybe more, but almost certainly less than it does in the US.

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embedding-shape 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

"By-laws" is typically the name of the rules/"laws" inside of a company or organization, I'm not familiar with that word in the context of "nation-wide criminal/civil laws".

Regardless, cities do not have their own "local laws" in the way your comment made it seem. We have national laws, and minor differences in various autonomous communities, since they have some legislative power to control their own industry, commerce, education and some more stuff.

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dylan604 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> inside of a company or organization,

Corps and cities are very similarly structured. Each are charted at the start, with corps getting governed by boards and c-suite types while cities have mayors and city council types. Both file paperwork to exist within the state. Both are subject to state laws, but are allowed to make up regulations specific to them as long as they are within the state's laws.

In the end, it's all just paperwork, at least in the US

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eep_social 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

as an american I might call those “local ordinance” when they come from a smaller rulemaker like a town

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ninalanyon 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> "By-laws" is typically the name of the rules/"laws" inside of a company

I suspect that this should be qualified by "in the US"

	▲	embedding-shape 7 hours ago \| parent [-]
		No, I was talking about Spain, I have no idea how it works in the US. I thought mentioning "autonomous communities" was enough context to make it evident, but maybe it wasn't.