Ordinance 652 ORDINANCE NO. 652
AN ORDINANCE CREATING A BOARD OF TRUSTEES
OF MIAT.iI BEACH CITY HOSPITAL; PRESCRIBING
THE POWERS AND DUTIES OF SAID BOARD, THE
MANNER OF APPOINTMENT OF ITS MEMBERS, THE
LENGTH OF TERMS OF SERVICE OF ITS MEMBERS; •
REQUIRING AN ANNUAL BUDGET OF SAID BOARD,
AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES; DECLARING THIS
ORDINANCE TO BE AN EMERGENCY MEASURE.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH,
FLORIDA:
SECTION 1 . That there be, and there is , hereby created, a
Board for the management and operation of the
City Hospital, owned, or hereafter to be acquired, by the City
of Miami Beach, Florida, which shall be designated. "The Board.
of Trustees of Miami Beach City Hospital", and, said. Hospital
is hereby designated "Miami Beach City Hospital".
SECTION 2. That said Board of Trustees shall consist of Seven
(7) members , who shall be appointedby the City
Manager by and with the approval of the City Council of the
City of Miami Beach, Florida; and that of the first Board of
Trustees three members shall be appointed for terms of one
year each; two others for terms of two years each; and the
remaining two for terms of three years each. At the expiration
of the terms as above set forth, the successors of the members
of said first Board shall be appointed by the: City Manager by
and with the approval of said City Council for terms of three
years each. All members of said Board shall be residents of
the City of Miami Beach, Florida, but no person licensed in
the State of Florida to practice any of the healing arts,
including dentistry, shall be eligible for membership on said
Board. Any vacancy on said Board caused by death, resignation,
removal or otherwise, shall be filled by the said City Manager
by and with the approval of said City Council for the. balance
of the unexpired term of the person, the termination of whose
office shall have caused the vacancy. The City Council may at
any time upon recommendation of the City Manager, for any
cause or reason satisfactory to it, by a five-sevenths ( 5/7)
vote of its members , remove any member of said Board of Trustees .
SECTION 3. No member of said Board of Trustees or officer of
said Board, or employee of said Board, shall furnish
any supplies or perform any services for pay other than that
for which he was employed, for said Board or for said Hospital.
SECTION 4. The members of said Board shall select a chairman
from among their number and likewise shall appoint
a secretary, who may or may not be a member of said Board, but
in the event any compensation shall be paid for the performance
of the duties incident to the office of secretary, then that
office shall be held by some one other than a member of said
Board.
SECTION 5. No member of said Board, as member, as chairman,
or as secretary, shall receive any compensation for
his services except that each Trustee shall recciv(* the sum of
?5.00 for each attendance at a meeting of the Board, providers,
however, that no member shall receive more than X510.00 there-
for in any calendar month.
SECTION 6. The Board shall have the power to adopt by-laws,
rules or regulations , for the; conduct of its own
meetings or business, and for the regulation and control of the
operation of the Miami Beach City Hospital.
SECTION 7. The said Board shall have power and authority,
and it is made the duty of said Board, to exercise ,
general control and management over said Hospital, except that
the handling of receipts , the payment of expenses, and budgetary
control, shall be as hereinafter set forth.
SECTION 8. Said Board shall employ a superintendent, or
manager, and all other personnel excepting the
accounting personnel necessary to operate said Hospital, desig-
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nating their duties , and determining and fixing their respective
tattles , and fixing the salaries of all employees in accordance
with the budget of said Hospital .
SECTION 9. The Board of Trustees shall, within thirty (30)
days after the appointment and organization of said
Board as hereinbefore provided, prepare a bradget covering the
remainder of the fiscal year ending October 31st, 1942, and
shall submit the same to the City Council of said. City for
approvalat said Council ' s first regular meeting after the
preparation of said budget, and thereafter said Board of Trustees
shall prepare an annualbudget , following andutilizing the same
fiscal or budgetary year as the City of Miami Beach and shall
submit the same to the City Council for approval at said
Council' s first regular meeting in June of 1942, and of each
year thereafter. Lhen the budget shall have been submitted to
the City Council, said Council shallexamine said budget, making
such changes as shall be fit and proper, and approve the same,
and the net amount approved in said budget, after deduction of
anticipated revenue, shall be added to the amount to be raised
by taxation and taken into consideration in fixing the millage
to be collected out of taxable property in said City.
SECTION 10. Said Board shall permit no expenditure of any
sort, nature, kind or character, whatsoever, to
be made unless the same shall be included in, and in accordance
with, said budget; provided, however, said budget may be
amended from time to time by said City Councilin order to
authorize unanticipatedexpenses or to permit the expenditure
of unanticipated additional revenues or to permit transfers
from one item to another within said budget , or in any other
manner which shall seem advisable to said. Council. Private
contributions or endowments shall be held in a separate fund.
to be controlledand expended solely by the Board of Trustees .
SECTION 11. All purchases to be made by, or on behalf, of said
Board of said Hospital, shall be made by and through
the City Pur. chasi ng Agent of the City of Miami Beach.
SECTION 12. All accounting and bookkeeping of and for said
Hospital, shall be done in such manner and form,
and shall consist of such records , as may be prescribed by the
City accounting Department, and the City Auditor shall audit
all accounts of said Board and said Hospital and shall make
quarterly reports to s<aid. Board, and to the City Council as to
his findings and recommendations relative thereto.
SECTION 13. All monies and receipts , earned and received, at,
in and by said Hospital, shall be remitted and
paid over daily into the City Treasury.
SECTION 14. All disbursements to be made for, or on behalf of
said Board, and said Hospital, shall be based on
vouchers and shall first be approved by said. Board, and theta -
after the routine of handling shall be the sane as in the case
of other expenses and disbursements of the City of'I\tiarai Beach.
SECTION 15. All ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict
herewith, are hereby repealed.
SECTION 16. If any phrases , clauses , sentences , paragraphs,
sections, or other part hereof, shall for any
reason be held unconstitutional or invalid by any court of
competent jurisdiction, the remainder of this Ordinance not
so held unconstitutional, or invalid, shall nevertheless re-
main in full force and effect, and each and every part thereof
shall be deemed separable and distinct from every other part
thereof.
SECTION 17. This Ordinance is hereby declared to be an
emergency measure for the immediate preservation
of the welfare of the City of Miami Beach, Florida..
PASSED AND ADOPTED this 6th day of May, A. D. , 1942.
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1st Reading - May 6th, 1942
2nd Reading - May 6th, 1942
3rd Reading - May 6th, 1942
Posted - May 8th, 1942
STATE OF FLORIDA)
COUNTY OF DADE )
I, C. W. TOMLINSON, City Clerk in and
for the City of Miami Beach, Florida, do hereby certify
that Ordinance No. 652, entitled "AN ORDINANCE CREATING
A BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF MIAMI BEACH CITY HOSPITAL; PRE-
SCRIBING THE POWERS AND DUTIES OF SAID BOARD, THE MANNER
OF APPOINTMENT OF ITS MEMBERS, THE T,FNGTH OF TERMS OF
SERVICE OF ITS MEMBERS; REQUIRING AN ANNUAL BUDGET OF
SAID BOARD, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES; DECLARING THIS ORDI-
NANCE TO BE AN EMERGENCY MEASURE" , Having been passed
and adopted by the City Louncil of the City of Miami
Beach, Florida, has been posted by me in three conspicu-
ous places in the City of Miami Beach one of which was
at the door of the City Hall in said Beach,_
on the 8th day
of May, A. D. , 1942, and that said Ordinance remained
posted for a period of at least thirty days in accordance
with the requirements of the City Charter of the said
City of Miami Beach.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF I have hereunto set
my hand and affixed the official seal of the City of
Miami Beach, Florida, on this 30t1(1.„Say_ of . r, A.D. ,
1942.
ty Clerk.
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