Firstly, expenses are either operating expenses or non-operating expenses. Expenses incurred in operating the firm's core line of business are operating expenses. Employee wages, inventory handling costs, and expenditures for office supplies are operating expenses.
However, the state of Utah, just beat Washington to the punch. According to the Salt Lake Tribune, a law that rolled in with the new year, ended âyears of legal discrimination against some groups in Utah.â The new law that went into effect on January 1, 2015, ends pit bull bans throughout the state of Utah.
As of September 2014, no states have enacted breed-specific laws, or BSLs, banning pit bulls. However, there are over 700 U.S. cities in 40 states that have enacted these bans. Additionally, appellate courts in 12 states have upheld the constitutionality of breed-specific pit bull laws, including Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, New Mexico, Ohio, Utah, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin and Washington, D.C. Continue Reading.