The exemption affects utilities that the state oversees, like phone service, electricity and gas.

Individual states oversee elections - even the federal ones.

Faced with bankruptcy, the city agreed to let the state oversee its finances in exchange for permission to borrow on the state's credit.

He added that the state would "oversee" the cleanup.

Most states and territories directly oversee the water systems within their borders.

True, virtually all states already oversee investment advisers to varying degrees.

"The state oversees taxi regulations and we're doing our best to put in some level of control."

The first is whether the state would oversee and pay for court-ordered medicine, counseling and other treatment.

A powerful bureaucracy/police state oversees the acts of all citizens.

She then moved to eliminate several sections of the bill entirely, provisions that would require states to oversee new insurance requirements.