Item R4
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY
Meeting Date:
December 13, 2000
Division:
County Attorney
AGENDA ITEM WORDING:
An ordinance declaring that an emergency exists and waiving notice by a four-
fifths vote, establishing bond amounts of the constitutional officers.
ITEM BACKGROUND:
The Legislature amended Chapters 28, 30, and 137, FS, to remove the statutory amount
of the officers' bonds and required the Board of County Commissioners to establish the
amount. This ordinance establishes those amounts. The bond amounts are the same as
the prior amounts.
PREVIOUS RELEVANT BOCC ACTION:
None
STAFF RECOMMENDATION:
Approval
TOTAL COST:
BUDGETED: Yes
No
Cost to County:
APPROVED BY:
County Attorney X OMB/Purchasing Risk Management
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DOCUMENTATION:
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AGENDA ITEM #
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Board of County Commissioners
ORDINANCE NO
- 2000
AN ORDINANCE OF THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
OF MONROE COUNTY, FLORIDA, DECLARING THAT AN
EMERGENCY EXISTS AND WAIVING NOTICE BY A FOUR-
FIFTHS VOTE; PROVIDING FOR THE AMOUNTS OF THE BONDS
REQUIRED OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL OFFICERS AND
DECLARING THAT THE PREMIUMS FOR SUCH BONDS ARE A
PUBLIC PURPOSE AND MAY BE PAID FOR WITH COUNTY
FUNDS; PROVIDING FOR SEVERABILITY; PROVIDING FOR THE
REPEAL OF ALL ORDINANCES INCONSISTENT HEREWITH;
PROVIDING FOR INCORPORATION INTO THE MONROE
COUNTY CODE OF ORDINANCES; AND PROVIDING AN
EFFECTIVE DATE
WHEREAS, a recent amendment to Chapter 137, Florida Statutes, requires
the Board of County Commissioners to establish, by ordinance, the amount of the
bonds required' of the Tax Collector, Property Appraiser, Supervisor of Elections,
and County Commissioners;
WHEREAS, the recently amended respective chapters of the Florida Statutes
applicable to the Sheriff, and Clerk of the Circuit Court also now require that the
Board establish by ordinance the amounts of their bonds; and
WHEREAS, due to the recent election it is necessary to immediately establish
the amounts of the bonds for the constitutional officers; now, therefore
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF MONROE
COUNTY, FLORIDA:
Section 1. An emergency is hereby declared and notice waived by a four-
fifths vote.
Section 2. Pursuant to Chapters 137, 28, and 30, Florida Statutes, the
Board hereby requires the following constitutional officers to give bond, conditioned
for the faithful performance of the duties of his/her Office, in the following
amounts:
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
f)
Clerk of the Circuit Court
Sheriff
Tax Collector
Property Appraiser
County Commissioners
Supervisor of Elections
$ 5,000
$15,000
$ 5,000
$10,000
$ 2,000
$ 5,000
. '
The premiums for the bonds required by this ordinance are declared to be a
public purpose payable out of County funds.
Section 2. If any section, subsection, sentence, clause or provIsion of this
ordinance is held invalid, the remainder of this ordinance shall not be affected by such
invalidity.
Section 3. All ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are
hereby repealed to the extent of said conflict.
Section 4. The provisions of this ordinance shall be included and incorporated in
the Code of Ordinances of the County of Monroe, Florida, as an addition or amendment
thereto, and shall be appropriately renumbered to conform to the uniform numbering
system of the Code.
Section 5. This ordinance shall take effect when a certified copy of this ordinance
has bee/1l accepted by the postal authorities of the United States for special delivery by
registered mail to the Secretary of State of the State of Florida in accordance with the
provisions of Florida Statute 125.66(3).
PASSED AND ADOPTED by the Board of County Commissioners of Monroe County,
Florida, at a regular meeting of said Board held on the day of December, 2000.
Mayor George Neugent
Commissioner Charles McCoy
CommissionerMurray Nelson
CommissionerDixie Spehar
Commissioner Nora Williams
(SEAL)
Attest: DANNY L.KOLHAGE, Clerk
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
OF MONROE COUNTY, FLORIDA
By
By
Deputy Clerk
Mayor/Chairperson
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