uniform act

It takes at least two years for the Commission to create a uniform act or model act.

Frequently, a state will make substantial variations when adopting a uniform act.

The results of these discussions are proposed to the various jurisdictions as model legislation or uniform acts.

Modeled after the federal Act, the uniform act established a drug scheduling system.

Neither a model act nor a uniform act has the force of law unless it is enacted by a state legislature.

Every state has adopted the uniform act.

"American Bar Association approves uniform act on debt counseling."

The UCC is the longest and most elaborate of the uniform acts.

Legislatures are urged to adopt uniform acts exactly as written to "promote uniformity in the law among the jurisdictions adopting the act."

In addition to model acts it also publishes uniform acts, which are meant to be enacted exactly as they are written across the United States.

Unless such changes are minor, they can seriously obstruct the goal of the uniform acts of promoting uniformity of law among the various states.

List of Uniform Acts (United States)

The NCCUSL website should be consulted for the latest uniform acts or revisions thereof.

The NCCUSL website lists the states that it considers to have adopted these and other uniform acts.

However, neither the uniform acts nor any of the state charging order statutes make any distinction between single-member and multi-member LLCs.

A state may adopt a uniform act as written by NCCUSL, or a state may adopt it with specific changes.

In the United States, the List of Uniform Acts (United States) essentially defines a father as a man who conceives a child through sexual intercourse.

Joint procedural rules also limit each legislator to introducing five bills per year, subject to certain exceptions for non-binding resolutions, uniform acts, interim committee bills and appropriations bills.

The NCCUSL, while influential, does not have any direct legislative power itself; uniform acts become laws only to the extent they are enacted into law by state legislatures.

The Uniform Simultaneous Death Act is a uniform act enacted in some U.S. states to alleviate the problem of simultaneous death in determining inheritance.

The Uniform Environmental Covenants Act (UECA) is one of the uniform acts drafted by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws.

The Uniform Prudent Management of Institutional Funds Act (abbreviated UPMIFA) is a uniform act that provides guidance on investment decisions and endowment expenditures for nonprofit and charitable organizations.

The Model Penal Code, which seeks to harmonize state criminal law statutes, is in effect a uniform act but it was developed by the American Law Institute and not the NCCUSL.

Following the re-organization of States, the Mysore Municipalities Act 1964 came into force as a uniform act throughout the state on 1 April 1965, replacing the Madras District Municipalities Act of 1920.

The [ULC's] generous and well-intended efforts were utterly futile; most of its Uniform Acts on the subject were never enacted in any state, and only bits and pieces were enacted in a handful of states.