Labor & Employment Law

An entertaining example of enforcing administrative law

"Drop that Head of Cabbage, Mister, and Step Back from Your Cultivator with Your Hands in the Air September 20, 2010", posted on the International Municipal Lawyers Association - Local Government Blog by Dwight Merriam (Robinson & Cole, LLP, Hartford, CT):

DeKalb County, Georgia, can teach us all something about zoning enforcement.

The zoning enforcement authorities cited Steve Miller for growing too many vegetables on his 2-acre lot in a residential zone. Actually, it?s not that he was growing the vegetables; it was that he was selling them at an off-site farmers? market, you see, because that makes it a commercial activity.

Isn?t there some federal law about transporting zucchini over county lines for the purpose of illegal sale? ...

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Full post as published by New York Public Personnel Law on September 22, 2010 (boomark / email).