Resolution 3951 RESOLUTION NO. 3951
BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of Miami Beach,
Florida, that we hereby approve and endorse the proposed Act which
is entitled as follows:
"AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION EIGHT, OF CHAPTER 7672, LAWS OF THE
STATE OF FLORIDA, ACTS OF 1917, ENTITLED "AN ACT TO ABOLISH
THE PRESENT MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT OF THE TOWN OF MIAMI BEACH,
IN THE COUNTY OF DADE AND STATE OF FLORIDA, AND TO ESTABLISH,
ORGANIZE AND INCORPORATE A CITY GOVERNMENT FOR THE CITY OF
MIAMI BEACH, TO DEFINE ITS TERRITORIAL BOUNDARIES, TO PRE.
SCRIBE ITS JURISDICTION, POWERS AND PRIVILEGES, AND FOR THE
EXERCISE OF SAME, AND TO AUTHORIZE THE IMPOSITION OR PENAL_
TIES FOR THE VIOLATION OF ITS ORDINANCES" AS AMENDED BY
CHAPTER 9836, LAWS OF FLORIDA, ACTS OF 1923, ENTITLED "AN ACT
TO AMEND CHAPTER 9023 OF THE LAWS OF FLORIDA RELATING TO THE
MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT OF THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH; AND TO AMEND
CHAPTER 7672 OF THE LAWS OF FLORIDA RELATING TO THE MUNICIPAL
GOVERNMENT OF THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH" AND AS AMENDED BY
CHAPTER 17602, LAWS OF FLORIDA, ACTS OF 1935, ENTITLED " AN
ACT TO AMEND SECTIONS 3, 4, 10 and 14 OF CHAPTER 9836, LAWS
OF THE STATE OF FLORIDA, ACTS OF 1923, ENTITLED "AN ACT TO
AMEND CHAPTER 9023 OF THE LAWS OF FLORIDA, RELATING TO THE
MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT OF THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH; AND TO AMEND
CHAPTER 7672 OF THE LAWS OF FLORIDA, RELATING TO THE MUNICI..
PAL GOVERNMENT OF THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH" AND AS AMENDED BY
CHAPTER 17605, LAWS OF FLORIDA, ACTS OF 1935, ENTITLED "AN
ACT TO AMEND SECTIONS 3, 4, 10 AND 14 OF CHAPTER 9836, LAWS
OF THE STATE OF FLORIDA, ACTS OF 1923, ENTITLED "AN ACT TO
AMEND CHAPTER 9023OF THE LAWS OF FLORIDA, RELATING TO THE
MUNICIPAL GOVERNMNT OF THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH, AND TO AMEND
CHAPTER 7672 OF THE LAWS OF FLORIDA, RELATING TO THE MUNICI-
PAL GOVERNMENT OF THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH" AND AS AMENDED BY
CHAPTER 17595, LAWS OF FLORIDA ACTS OF 1935, ENTITLED "AN
ACT TO AMEND SECTION 1 OF SENATE BILL NO. 345 OF THE ACTS
OF FLORIDA OF 1935, THE SAME BEING "AN ACT TO AMEND SECTIONS
Fj 4 10 AND 14 OF CHAPTER 9836, LAWS OF THE STATE OF
LORIDA ACTS OF 1923, ENTI L D "AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 9023
OF THE LAWS OF FLORIDA, RELATING TO THE MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT
OF THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH, AND TO AMEND CHAPTER 7672 OF THE
LAWS OF FLORIDA RELATING TO THE MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT OF THE
CITY OF MIAMI BEACH"; DEFINING CITY OFFICERS, PROVIDING AND
NAMING THE OFFICERS IN WHOM THE GOVERNMENT OF THE CITY SHALL
BE VESTED, ABOLISHING THE OFFICE OF MAYOR, CHANGING THE DATE
OF GENERAL ELECTIONS, PROVIDING THE TERM OF OFFICE OF PRESENT
CITY COUNCILMEN AND THEIR SUCCESSORS IN OFFICE, PROVIDING
FOR A CHAIRMAN OF THE CITY COUNCIL WHO SHALL FOR CERTAIN PUR-
POSES HAVE THE TITLE OF MAYOR AND PROVIDING HIS DUTIES, PRO-
VIDING FOR FILLING HIS OFFICE IN THE EVENT OF DISABILITY OR
INABILITY TO ACT, PROVIDING FOR THE APPOINTMENT OF A COMMITTEE-
MAN FOR EACH OF THE SEVERAL DEPARTMENTS OF THE CITY, AND PRO..
VIDING THAT NO MEMBER OF THE CITY COUNCIL MAY, DURING THE
TERM FOR WHICH HE WAS ELECTED, BE ELECTED OR APPOINTED TO ANY
OFFICE OTHER THAN THE OFFICE OF CITY COUNCILMAN, WHICH SHALL
HAVE BEEN CREATED OR THE EMOLUMENTS OF WHICH SHALL HAVE BEEN
INCREASED DURING SUCH TIME. "
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that copies of said proposed Act, together
with a certified copy of this Resolution, be sent to each of the follow-
ing: Senator Ernest R. Graham, Representatives George E. Holt, Ernest
Overstreet and John J. Lindsey, and that they each be respectfully
requested to see that a Bill, substantially in accordance with the said
copy, to be introduced and passed during the 1937 session of the
Florida State Legislature.
PASSED AND ADOPTED this 31st day of March, A. D. , 1937.
��— President of City Council
ATTEST:
City Clerk
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