Tag: Laws
High court opens door to gay adoption
The Supreme Court of Justice has overturned a 2013 law in Campeche forbidding adoption by same-sex couples.
Gay couple allowed to register baby
The child of a same-sex couple was recognized as their legitimate son in the Yucatán state civil registry, a historic first.
Gay marriage: Local battles, national victory
The 14th Circuit Appellate Court this week admitted a petition that reignites efforts to formally allow same-sex marriage in Yucatán.
Restaurants ask alcohol-ban exemption
The president of the National Chamber of the Restaurant Industry asked to join other tourist zones and lift the ban on alcohol preceding election day.
La Ley Seca: Voting a sober affair in Mexico
Stock up now! Mexico restricts the sale of alcohol 24 hours before elections and all of election day, a law that dates to the Mexican Revolution.
Billboard crackdown continues in Mérida
City authorities are using social media to boast about a crackdown on illegal billboards that have been a blight on the city.
‘Historic’ reforms to moral code applauded
A series of amendments, passed unanimously, are designed to safeguard the rights of vulnerable minority groups such gay or transgender people in Mérida.
Mérida doubles down on derelict lots
The city is more strictly enforcing rules governing untended lots, imposing fines in 2014 double the amount it assessed the previous year.
Billboards coming down along the Paseo
A citywide crackdown on illegal billboards began last week on the Prolongación Paseo de Montejo, the city Department of Urban Development announced.
Lawmakers propose crackdown on vacant Centro properties
Reacting to the proliferation of vacant lots and abandoned, deteriorating properties in the Centro, members of Yucatan state legislature are preparing to toughen laws that allow the government to seize land.
