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Re:I put all 8,642 Spanish laws in Git – every reform is a c... by embedding-shape on Saturday March 28, 2026 @09:48AM (#47554581)
"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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Re:I put all 8,642 Spanish laws in Git – every reform is a c... by ninalanyon on Saturday March 28, 2026 @11:11AM (#47555301)
> "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"

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Re:I put all 8,642 Spanish laws in Git – every reform is a c... by embedding-shape on Saturday March 28, 2026 @11:20AM (#47555394)
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.
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Re:I put all 8,642 Spanish laws in Git – every reform is a c... by ninalanyon on Tuesday March 31, 2026 @05:12PM (#47593530)
I was misled then by the word being in English. The name bye-law in British English generally applies to local authority (town or county) laws rather than the internal rules of a commercial entity.
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Re:I put all 8,642 Spanish laws in Git – every reform is a c... by eep_social on Saturday March 28, 2026 @12:32PM (#47556095)
as an american I might call those “local ordinance” when they come from a smaller rulemaker like a town
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Re:I put all 8,642 Spanish laws in Git – every reform is a c... by dylan604 on Saturday March 28, 2026 @01:03PM (#47556400)
> 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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