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7 unusual facts about Grandfather clause|


1988–89 New York Rangers season

Lafleur remained one of the few players that did not wear protective helmets due to the Grandfather clause.

1996–97 NHL season

MacTavish had been grandfathered under the old rule requiring them to be worn because he had signed a pro contract before the rule was established on 1 June, 1979.

Exemption

Grandfather clause, an exemption that allows a pre-existing condition to continue, even if such a condition is now prohibited from being begun anew

Frank Church—River of No Return Wilderness

While designation as a wilderness area in the United States generally requires the prohibition of any motorized machinery, the use of jetboats (On the Main Fork of the Salmon River) and several airstrips are permitted in this wilderness as grandfathered existing uses before the wilderness was designated.

Height above average terrain

Zones I and I-A have the most "grandfathered" overpowered stations, which are allowed the same extended coverage areas that they had before the zones were established.

NASCAR Mexico T4 Series

While teams are being encouraged to switch to the new car, those not wanting to do so are being grandfathered in the series.

WHQT

For many years they enjoyed a grandfathered license which allowed them to transmit with an effective radiated power of 160,000 watts but with an antenna center of radiation under sixty meters (200 feet) height above average terrain.


Adam C. Stacey

Stacey also fought against and helped defeat an attempt to rezone the entire northern half of Bath Township into a de facto business district by grandfathering in existing non-conforming business operations.

Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution

United States Supreme Court decisions in the late nineteenth century interpreted the amendment narrowly, and by 1910, most black voters in the South faced obstacles such as poll taxes and literacy tests, from which white voters were exempted by grandfather clauses.


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