Ordinance 1025ORDINANCE NO. 1025
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 5 OF
"THE CODE OF THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH,
FLORIDA, 1950".
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF MIAMII BEACH,
FLORIDA:
SECTION 1: That Section 5.3 of "The Code of the City of Miami
Beach, Florida, 1950" be and the same is hereby
amended to read as follows:
"sec. 5:3. The Board shall conduct monthly
examinations of applicants for
permits to operate boats under the terms of
this chapter, provided, however, that the Board
may hold such aac.itional examinations as they
shall deem necessary."
SECTION 2: That Section 5.5 of "The Code of the City of Miami
Beach, Florida, 1950" be and the same is hereby
amended to read as follows:
"Sec. 5.5. Any person seeking such a permit
shall make application on a form
to be provided by the City Clerk, which appli-
cation shall be sworn to before the City Clerk
or one of his deputies. No permit shall be
granted unless the applicant shall have com-
plied with the following:
(1) Obtain references from three persons
holding U. S. Coast Guard operating certificates;
(2) Obtain approval from the Miami Beach
rolice Department;
(3) Obtain a U. S. Coast Guard operating
certificate;
(4) Shall have had at least one year's
experience on a boat carrying passengers for
hire, operating in the waters of Miami "-?each
harbor end waters surrounding and adjacent thereto
under an operator holdin[; a U. S. Coast Guard ope'.a-
ting certificate;
(5) Shall satisfy the board that he is a fit
person, morally and physically, to operate a
boat carrying passengers for hire.
Provided, however, that any applicant for a
permit to operate sightseeing boats only, on
inland waters, on prescribed routes and schedules,
may substitute for the requirement of the one
year's experience hereinabove set forth, a com-
pleted apprenticeship of not less than thirty
(30) operating days duration under a licensed
operator or licensed operators, during which
such applicant is schooled by such operator or
operators in the waters in which he proposes
to operate. 'roof of such completed apprentice-
ship shall be evidenced by an affidavit executed
by such licensed operator or operators. Upon
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the applicant complying with the above
provisions, and successfully passing the
examination provided for, he shall be granted
the permit without payment of any fee".
SECTION 3: That Section 5.7 of "The Code of the City of Miami
Beach, Florida, 1950" be and the same is hereby
amended to read as follows:
SECTION
"Sec. 5.7. Any person seeking such occupational
license shall make application
therefor on a form to be provided by the City
C]ak, which application is to be sworn to by
the applicant before the City Clerk, or one of
his deputies. The City Clerk shall thereupon
refer the application to the Board of Marine
Inspection, who, after an inspection of the
boat by the City Doat Inspector to determine
whether or not it is seaworthy and safe, is
properly equipped and is properly provided
with clocking facilities for the contemplated
business, and after approval of the Chief of
the Fire Department, and after the applicant
shall have obtained and furnished to the Marine
Inspection Board, a survey by.a,tarine'.surveyor
who shall be ;licensed by -the Florida .State Insurance
Commission.and.which survey, among other things, shall
state that the boat is: in .safe and. seaworthy condition".
4:
SECTION
That Section 5.8 of "The Code of the City of Miami
Beach, Florida, 1950" be and the same is hereby amended
to read as follows:
"Sec. 5.8. It shall be unlawful for any person,
firm or corporation to maintain
and/or operate any dock, bulkhead, mooring or
other means of securing a boat to the shore line
in the City of Miami Beach, Florida, for the
mooring or other means of securing any commercial
craft carrying passengers for hire, or charter
parties in or from the City of •Iianii Beach,
unless the owner or operator of said dock,bulk-
h.e ad, mooring or place of securing such boats
has first secured a license for the operation
thereof, from the City Clerk and has paid to
said City Clerk a license fee of :,;25.00."
5:
That Section 5.11 of "The Code of the City ofaami
Beach, Florida, 1950" be and the same is hereby
anended to read as follows:
"Sec. 5.11. It shall be unlawfulfor any
boat carrying passengers for hire
to embark or disembark any passengers, anti/or
charter parties within the limits of the City
of Miami Beach, except at a dock duly licensed
under this ordinance, except in an emergency."
SECTION 6: That Chapter 5 of''The Code of the City of Miami Beach,
Florida, 1950" be and the same is hereby amended by
adding thereto, immediately after Section 5.9 thereof,
an additional section to be known as Section 5.91, to read as
follows:
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"Sec. 5.91. The recommendation of the Board
of Marine Inspection, either approving
or rejecting any application shall be acted upon
by the City Council within a two weeks period
from the time of the receipt of the Board's
reco.alendation, either sustaining or denying
the recommendation of said Board; otherwise the
recom:nencation of the Doard of Marine Inspection
shall be considered approved".
SECTION 7: That Section 5.16 of "The Code of the City of Miami
Beach, Florida, 1950" be and the same is hereby amended
to read as follows:
'}Sec. 5.16. Any person who violates any of the
provisions of this ordinance, or
any rule or regulation promulgated by the Board
of Marine Inspection, under the authority hereof,
upon conviction in the i•iunicipal Court of the
saia City of Miami Beach shall be punished by a
fine not exceeding the sum of Two Hundred (.,200.00)
Dollars, or by imprisonment in the City Jail of
said Miami Beach, Florida, for a period not ex-
ceeding Sixty (60) days, or by both such fine and.
imprisonment. Upon said conviction, the Judge of
said Municipal Court shall have the power to re-
voke any permit heretofore granted to any defendant
under the terms of this ordinance, as an additional
penalty for said violation, if, in his discretion,
such action seems proper. Such revocation may be
permanent or temporary, within the discretion of
said Judge."
SECTION 8: This ordinance shall go into effect immediately upon
its passage and posting in accordance with law.
PASSED and ADOPTED this 18th clay of June, A. D.
1952.
Attest:
By:
C. W. Tomlinson
eputy City Cl
1st reading - June 4, 1952
2nd reading - June 4, 1952
3rd reading - June 18, 1952
POSTED - June 18, 1952
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OFFICE OF CITY ATTORNEY - CITY HALL - MIAMI BEACH 39, FLORIDA
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. 1025, entitled: "AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 5 OF 'THE
CODE OF THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA, 19501", having been
passed and adopted by the City Council of the City of Miami
Beach, Florida, has been posted by me in three conspicuous
places in the City of Miami Beach, one of which was at the
door of the City Hall in said City on the 18th day of June,
A.D. 1952, 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 the 6th day of August, A.D. 1952.
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City Clerk
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