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State Regulations Preempt Local Rules
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
journal ‐ american water works association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.466
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1551-8833
pISSN - 0003-150X
DOI - 10.1002/j.1551-8833.1996.tb06494.x
Subject(s) - state (computer science) , agency (philosophy) , commonwealth , law and economics , business , domain (mathematical analysis) , power (physics) , eminent domain , law , political science , economics , computer science , sociology , mathematics , mathematical analysis , social science , physics , algorithm , quantum mechanics
This case in Pennsylvania raised the issue of the extent of a state agency's authority to regulate the use of water resources within its domain in the face of the power of local governing bodies to impose conditions on their approvals of conditional‐use applications. The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania ruled that local regulation was preempted by the state's water use regulations.