Local law

This page identifies initiatives that express ecological jurisprudence within any form of subordinate legislation made by a body other than the legislature as delegated under a primary piece of legislation (generally speaking, a statute or parent act). These are generally referred to as delegated legislation, local legislative initiatives, by-laws and regulations. Note that the term regulation is commonly used to refer to administrative rulemaking with the force of law, based on statutory direction, but is sometimes used in some civil law countries to refer to protocols and guidelines without the force of law. This category also refers to any form of legislative initiative passed by a local or regional legislative body (for example, in the USA, local ordinances).