Ordinance 87-2545 ORDINANCE NO. 87-2545
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COMMISSION OF THE
CITY OF MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA, AMENDING SECTION
26 OF THE MIAMI BEACH CITY CHARTER GOVERNING
CODIFICATION OF ORDINANCES, PASSAGE OF
ORDINANCES BY PETITION, AND RECALL OF
COMMISSIONERS, BY DELETING THEREFROM
ANTIQUATED PROVISIONS REGARDING POSTING
ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH,
PUBLICATION OF THE CITY CODE, AND EFFECTIVE
DATE OF ORDINANCES, ESTABLISHING A PROCEDURE
FOR THE FILING OF PETITIONS , BY PROVIDING THAT
INITIATIVE OR REFERENDUM PETITIONS SHALL BE
FORWARDED BY THE CITY CLERK TO THE
METROPOLITAN DADE COUNTY ELECTIONS DEPARTMENT
FOR COMPLETION OF A CERTIFICATE AS TO THE
PETITION' S SUFFICIENCY, SUCH CERTIFICATE TO BE
SENT TO THE CITY CLERK AND A COPY SENT ON TO
THE PETITION' S CIRCULATOR AND TO THE CITY
COMMISSION, THAT WHEN INITIATIVE OR REFERENDUM
PETITIONS ARE CERTIFIED AS INSUFFICIENT FOR
LACK OF THE REQUIRED NUMBER OF SIGNATURES,
SAID PETITION MAY BE AMENDED ONE TIME BY
FILING WITH THE CITY CLERK SUPPLEMENTARY
DOCUMENTS BEARING ADDITIONAL SIGNATURES WITHIN
TEN (10) DAYS AFTER RECEIVING THE COPY OF THE
CERTIFICATE OF METROPOLITAN DADE COUNTY
ELECTIONS DEPARTMENT REGARDING THE PETITION'S
INSUFFICIENCY, THAT WHEN PETITIONS ARE
PRESENTED TO THE CITY COMMISSION FOR THE
PURPOSE OF REPEALING AN ORDINANCE, SAID
ORDINANCE BE REPEALED BY THE CITY COMMISSION
WITHIN THIRTY (30) DAYS OF THE ISSUANCE OF A
CERTIFICATE OF THE PETITION'S SUFFICIENCY FROM
THE METROPOLITAN DADE COUNTY ELECTIONS
DEPARTMENT OR SAID ORDINANCE BE SUBMITTED FOR
ELECTORATE APPROVAL, ESTABLISHING THE
EFFECTIVE DATE OF SUCH ELECTIONS AS UPON THE
CERTIFICATION OF ELECTION RESULTS, THAT IN
CASES IN WHICH TWO (2) OR MORE MEASURES
CONFLICT THE PROVISION WITH THE HIGHEST
AFFIRMATIVE VOTE SHALL CONTROL, AND THAT STATE
RECALL PROVISIONS CONTROL; REPEALING ALL
ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT THEREWITH; PROVIDING
FOR SEVERABILITY; AND PROVIDING FOR AN
EFFECTIVE DATE.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF
MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA:
SECTION 1.
That Section 26 of the Miami Beach City Charter shall be amended
to read as follows:
Section 26 . B4mtltatlen t pen grant.eng €ranehlses;
e€€eetive elate e€ efdlnanees; eCodification of
ordinances; passage of ordinances by petition of
electorate; reeall e€ eemmlsslenets procedure for filing
petitions.
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A3: erdinanees of the eity e€ Miami Beaeh, after having
been passed by the eity eommissien, shall be€ere
beeeming a law, be posted in three eenspieueus plaees in
the pity of Miami Beaeh, ene of whieh shall be at the
eity Hall er at the deer ef the building used for pity
Hall purpeses, far a peried of thirty days; provided,
hewever, that nething herein eentained shall prevent t
The city commission may at any time €next appointing some
person or persons and authorizeing him or them to
arrange, codify, add to and supplement the ordinances of
the City of Miami Beach, and publishing such ordinances
in an appropriate volume or volumes, which said
ordinances when so published under the direction of the
city commission, as aforesaid, shall become the laws of
the City of Miami Beach upon its or their adoption by
ordinance;. whieh said andinanee se passed; publishing
and adopting said eity eerie, shall be pasted as
het<einbe€ere pfevided, and in sueh event it shall net be
neeessary to pest said eerie, eedi€ieatien, volume of
velumes, but the pasting of the afdinanee adapting the
sante shall be su€€ieient to make the erdinanee eentained
in said eerie binding as the law of said eity: in the
event, however, ef the publieatien of said eo e, as
aforesaid, a su€€ieient number of eepies shall be
published to furnish the munieipal fudge, the eity
attefney, and eaeh member of the eity eextmissian with a
eepy thereof, and se many additienal eepies as the eity
eefmissien may deem proper-
Bnevided, that uUpon the presentation to the city
commission of a petition or petitions signed by the
qualified electors therein, in number equal to ten per
cent of the registration asking for a submission to the
electors of a measure fully set forth in said petition
or petitions, being a measure that said body might
itself adopt, it must either adopt such measure without
alteration or submit the same to its electorate at the
next succeeding city election occurring subsequent to
sixty days after the filing of said petition or
petitions. But, if said petition or petitions are
signed by qualified electors in number equal to fifteen
per cent of said registration, then such measure, if not
so adopted by the said city commission, must be
submitted to such electorate at a special election to be
called within sixty days from the filing of such
petition or petitions.
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Initiative or referendum petitions shall be forwarded
by the city clerk to the Metropolitan Dade County
Elections Department for completion of a certificate as
to the petition' s sufficiency; such certificate shall
specify if it is insufficient, the particulars of
insufficiency (when it is defective) , and a copy of this
certificate shall be promptly sent to the city clerk.
The city clerk shall then promptly forward the
certificate on to the petition' s circulator , and shall
also present the certificate to the city commission.
An initiative or referendum petition certified as
insufficient for lack of the required number of valid
signatures may be amended one time; the circulator of
the petition may do so by filing with the city clerk
supplementary documents bearing additional signatures
within ten (10) days after receiving the copy of the
certificate of the Metropolitan Dade County Elections
Department regarding the insufficiency of the petition.
Any measure that the said city commission or the
electorate of the city has authority to adopt, as herein
provided, said city commission may submit to a vote of
its constituent electors at a general or special
election. Exeept as herein prevlded; ne penal erdlnanee
er measure and ne erdlnanee er measure granting; making
er aatherining any eentraet *exeept eentraets far
lmprevements; the expenses wheree€ are defrayed by
speelal leeal assessments and eentraets where the
sabieet matter }nvelved is less than ene theasand
dellars; passed by the said e}ty eemmiss}ea}; shall ge
lnte effeet In less than fatty days after .its full
passage; but erdlnanees and eentraets deelared by the
elty eemmisslen to be neeessary fat the lmmedlate
preservatlen ef the psblle peaee; health er sa€ety;
passed by a majerlty vete ef the said eemm+sslen; and
net ebllgating the elty for a longer perled of the than
ene year; may ge lnte a€€eet at the will of the elty
eeimisslen adepting the same-
If wlthln said €erty days a petition or petitions
signed by qualified electors of the city in number equal
to ten per cent of said registration is filed with the
city clerk asking that any penal ordinance er measure
granting any €ranehlse er prlvllege; er faking er
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authorizing any eontraet fexeept eentraets far
improvements; the expenses wheree€ are defrayed by
speeial leeal assessments and eentraets where the
subjeet matter ineelved deer net exeeed ene theusand
dellars; adopted by the city commission} be submitted to
said electorate for repeal, then such ordinance er
measure must either be repealed by the city commission
within thirty days of the issuance of a certificate of a
petition' s sufficiency by the Metropolitan Dade County
Elections Department or be submitted to the electors for
approval or rejection at the next succeeding city
election occurring subsequent to sixty days after the
filing of said petition or petitions, or at a special
election called prior to such general election; and if
sueh erdinanee et measure has net gene ince effeet
be€ere the filing of sueh petition er petit€ens and sueh
petitions er petitiens are signed by qualified eleeters
of the eity in number eeftial to fifteen per eent ef said
registration; then said erd€ranee er measure shall set
ge inte e€€eet until and unless adapted at sueh
eleetien; and ne erdinanee er measure enee se submitted
shall be again se submitted exeept by a vete of the eity
eemmissien er en a petitien signed by twenty-five
pereent ef the said registration.
If the majority of votes cast on an ordinance or
measure, referred, as herein provided, to the electors
of the city shall be in favor thereof, it shall; if net
already in e€€eet; go into effect ten days after the
e€€ieial eeunt shall be determined; upon certification
of the election results, otherwise such ordinance or
measure shall be repealed or rejected upon certification
of the election results.Sueh repeal shall take e€€eet
ten days after the e€€ieial eeunt shall be determined.
If the provisions of two or more measures approved and
adopted at the same election conflict, then the measure
receiving the highest affirmative vote shall control.
Any member of the commission may be recalled and
removed therefrom by the electors of the city as herein
provided by state law.
Any twenty-five qualified eleeters of the eity may
make and file with the eity elerk an affidavit
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eental:nl•ng the name er names of the eamml•ssl•ener er
eemml:ssl•aners where remeva] is sought and a statement e€
the grounds for removal- Phe e3erk shall thereupon
prepare petit€en blanks Of sueh remeva} en printed
farms whl•eh he shall: keep en hand.- The petition must be
signed before the el-ty elerk er his deputy, at the E€ty
Hall, and net elsewhere, by registered voters e€ the
eity to the number e€ at least ten per eent e€ the
number e€ a}eeters whe east their votes at the last
preeed€ng general: e4ty a}eet4en, and to every suet
signature shall be added the p}aee e€ resl•denee e€ the
signer, giving the street number ar ether deserl•ptl•on
su€€}e€ent to identify the pIaee-
The reeaI} pet€t€en, to be of€eetl•ve, must be
eemp}eted within thirty days after the filing e€ the
affidavit: Ne persen shat} be eligible to sign mere
than ene reeall a€€idav€ during any period e€ twelve
months-
After the eIerk is satisfied that the required number
e€ registered voters have signed the petition, in
aeeerdanee with the €erege€ng previsions, and after he
shall have been notified that these originally filing
the affidavit eens4der the petit€en su€€l:e€ent and are
ready to have it submitted to the e}ty eemm}ss4en, said
nett-€€eatl:en being in writing and signed by at least ten
e€ the er€g€nal: twenty-five qualified eleeters who filed
the affidavit, the eIerk shall submit the petition to
the e}ty eemml•ss}en at its nemt regular meeting,
tegether with his eertl•€€eate showing that the petition
has been signed by the requisite number of registered
voters:
The eemm€ss€en shat} thereupen, within ten days e€ the
reee4pt e€ the elerk's eert€€4eate, erder an eleetlen to
be held net less than thirty days nor mere than €erty-
€€ve days thereafter: Frau€deet; that if any ether
munlelpal eleet4en is to eeeur within sixty days after
the reee4pt e€ said eert€€}eate, the eemm}ss€en may in
its d4seret4en provide for the holding e€ the removal
eIeet€on en the date e€ sueh ether munle4pal e3eet4en-
Unless the eemm4ss4ener er eemm}ss4eners whose remevaI
is sought shall have resigned within ten days after the
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eeee4pt by the eefxt€ss4ea ef the eIerkls eeet4€4eate;
the €eem ef ballet at sueh eleetiea shall be as nearly
as may be-: USha€l A be reealled4li sSha}} B be
eeeal3ed?1 ete.7 the name ef the eemm}ss€anee ee
eem 4ss4enees whose eeea€l 4s seaght beg .inserted }n
p]aee ef A; By ete.7 and the ballet shall alse eenta4n
the names of the eaad€dates to be eleeted €a p}aee of
the eeim€ss€anee ee eemm4ss€epees eeea}}ed; as €ellewst
"Eaad4dates Ear the plaee of Ay €€ eeealled; eaad€dates
for the pIaee of B; }€ eeealled' ete.7 but the
eextm+ss4enee ee eemxvss4enees whose eeeall €s seaght
shall net themselves be eaad€dates apes sueh ballet:
The name of any a}eetee of the e4ty shall be priiited as
a EANB}BAPB FOR EOMMISSIONBR at sueh eeeall e]eet€en Ear
the pIaee of the eeMm4ss€anee to be eeea€led when a
pet4t4en 4n sttbstant4ally the €eei peev4ded €n seet4ea
3+2; Gemp4?ed General Laws ef R3eetda; 1924; shall be
€€led n h€s behalf with the e4ty a}eek; and sueh
pet4t4en shall have been s4gaed by at least twenty-€4ve
registered voters in the mun€e€pallty and €4] ed w}th the
e€ty eleek net less than twenty says be€ere sueh eeea}}
eleet€en-
€n ease a maj.ee4ty of these vet4ag fee and aga}nst the
eeea�� of any eemm}ss}eaee shall vete 4n €avec of
eeeall4ng sueh a€€4e4a1 he shall be thereby eemeved; and
}n that event the eaad€date who eeee€vies the h€ghest
number of vetes fee h€s plaee shall be e1eeted theeete
fee the ba€anee of the ttnemp€red tees
I€ the eemstiss€anee ee eerflm}ss€enees seught to be
eemeved shall have res€gned w4th4n ten days a€tee the
eeee}pt by the eem 4ss€en of the eleekls eeet4€€eate
ee€eeeed to €n this seet4en above; the farm of ballet at
the a}eet4en shall be the same; as nearly as may be; as
the €eery €n use at a regular t un€e4paI a€eet€en-
Should the eemr4ss4en €a41 ee refuse to order an
e€eet€ea as here€a prey-idea w4th€a the tome eequ4eed;
sueh a}eet€ea may be eedeeed by any state eeuet of
general iae€sd€et€en-
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SECTION 2. REPEALER.
All ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict herewith be and
the same are hereby repealed.
SECTION 3. SEVERABILITY.
If any section, sentence, clause or phrase of this ordinance is
held to be invalid or unconstitutional by any court of competent
jurisdiction, then said holding shall in no way affect the
validity of the remaining portions of this ordinance.
SECTION 4. EFFECTIVE DATE.
This ordinance shall take effect ten (10) days after its adoption,
on April 11 - , 1987 .
PASSED and ADOPTED this 1st day of April , 1987.
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MAYOR
Attest:
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CITY CLERK
1st Reading - March 18, 1987
2nd Reading - April 1, 1987 FORM APPROVED
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