"The process needs to be changed," she said, adding that only the regulations for gaining permits would be changed, not laws that protect the air and water.

Some officials, including City Attorney Rockard J. Delgadillo, contend that the agency was created as a private organization, charging production companies fees that include the costs of gaining permits from the appropriate locality.

The communities spent months wrangling with the Fire Island National Seashore, in which all the island's private communities are situated, before gaining permits allowing the projects.

The first phase of the project is close to gaining permits, according to New Jersey environmental officials.

But a Fulton County judge ruled in favor of the Atlanta billboard company - SMD - which gained permits to build and then sold the rights to seven of the signs to a national billboard company, Eller Media, for millions of dollars.

High-powered couples who choose jobs and buy homes and travel the world are thrown back into a Mao-era time warp when they want to have a child, which in most places still requires gaining permits from the local government and a woman's employer before pregnancy occurs.

In the early 2000s, due to the political changes which caused a vacuum in all levels of government, private entrepreneurs without gaining regular permits cut down over 1,000 trees for the purpose of constructing vast apartment complexes.

We must see to gaining permits and booking a hall.

Children can also gain permits from vocational training schools or the 4-H club which allow them to do jobs they would otherwise not be permitted to do.

David Martin, location manager for "Loverboy," found the film office to be "very helpful," especially in steering him to the correct jurisdiction to gain permits.