Ordinance 1420ORDINANCE NO. 1420
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 35 OF
"THE CODE OF THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH,
FLORIDA, 1950".
WHEREAS the City Council of the City of Miami Beach
has heretofore recognized and declared that the holding of
national, state and local conventions is a vital and essential
phase of the tourist economy of the City of Miami Beach, and
WHEREAS the City Council of the City of Miami Beach
is of the belief and conviction that the success of each convention
attracted to the City of Miami Beach is of vital importance to
every resident of the City, and
WHEREAS the success of a convention is to a large
measure dependent upon prompt, adequate and efficient transportation
facilities, and
WHEREAS, under normal conditions existing taxicab
transportation meets the foregoing requirements, but that on
occasion certain conventions, due to size or need, require
pre -arranged mass transportation of conventioneers from their
hotel accommodations to the Miami Beach Auditorium or the Miami
Beach Convention Hall, or similar itineraries, and
WHEREAS such requirements are not of such frequency
as to justify the issuance of annual or permanent permits for
charter motor vehicle transportation and that the issuance of
such permits would be disruptive or destructive of established
for -hire transportation facilities,
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF
THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA:
SECTION 1 That Section 35.40 of "The Code of the City of Miami
Beach, Florida, 1950" be and the same is hereby
amended by adding thereto paragraph (e) immediately following
paragraph (d) thereof, reading as follows:
"(e) The term 'charter operation' as used in this chapter
means the transportation of a group of persons wholly
within the City who, pursuant to a common purpose and under
a single contract which requires payment based upon the
number of vehicles used and not on the number of passengers
carried, have acquired the exclusive use of a motor bus of
a capacity of nine or more passengers, including the driver,
in which to travel together to a specified destination or
to a particular itinerary either agreed upon in advance or
modified or rearranged after having left the point of origin."
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OFFICE OF CITY ATTORNEY - 1130 WASHINGTON AVENUE - MIAMI BEACH 39, FLORIDA
SECTION 2 That Section 35.41 of "The Code of the City of
Miami Beach, Florida, 1950" be amended by adding
thereto the following:
"It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation
to use, operate, or run or cause or allow any of his or
its agents, servants, or employees to use, operate, or run
a motor vehicle in charter operation as defined by Section
35.40 of this Code, without first having obtained a
sightseeing bus permit from the City. After having obtained
such permit, no such permittee shall use, allow, or cause
to be used additional busses in charter operation without
first having obtained the permission of the City Manager
for the use thereof under such reasonable rules and
regulations as the City Manager shall from time to time
prescribe. The City Manager shall not authorize the use
of more than twenty (20) additional busses for any such
charter operation. A permit fee of $2.00 for each day of
operation by each bus authorized by the City Manager
hereunder shall be paid prior to the issuance of such
permit.
"No holder of a taxicab permit shall use his taxicab in
non -metered taxicab operation between points within the
City without first having obtained the permission of the
City Manager for such non -metered taxicab operation under
such reasonable rules and regulations as the City Manager
shall from time to time prescribe.'
"Any permittee or applicant hereunder deeming himself
aggrieved by any determination or action by the City
Manager may appeal the same to the City Council."
SECTION 3 That all ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict
herewith be and the same are hereby repealed.
SECTION 4 That this ordinance shall go into effect immediately
upon its passage and posting as required by law.
PASSED AND ADOPTED this 5th day of April, 1961.
Attest:
City Cle,
1st reading
2nd reading
3rd reading
POSTED
- March 15, 1961
- March 15, 1961
- April 5, 1961
- April 5, 1961
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Mayor
OFFICE OF CITY ATTORNEY - 1 130 WASHINGTON AVENUE - MIAMI BEACH 39, FLORIDA
STATE OF FLORIDA
COUNTY OF DADE:
I, R. WM. L. JOHNSON, City Clerk in and for the City
of Miami Beach, Florida, do hereby certify that Ordinance No. 1420,
entitled: "AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 35 OF "THE CODE OF THE
CITY OF MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA, 1950",
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 5th day of April, 1961,
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 1 have hereunto set my hand and
affixed the official seal of the City of Miami Beach, Florida, on
this the 17th day of May, 1961.
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