> > Gord-
> > What's the grandfather clause?
rob replied
> A Grandfather Clause, or Grandfathering, is the policy of ignoring or
> allowing the state of older facilities when newer standards are being
> applied elsewhere and otherwise.
> As an example, Gov Bush Grandfathered all the older more polluting power
> generating plants in Texas, rather than force the utilities to bring them
up
> to the new code. Money Talks!!!
Grandfathering applies to any range of new laws/policies/etc, it means that
whatever new standard is being applied is not applied to those already
effected. Occurs as standards change in schooling, nursing, as other
examples. Just today I heard another use of the phrase- that after the civil
war that phrase was used to restrict descendents of slaves from voting if
their grandfathers had been slaves.
Dee
