Item N07Rev:
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY
MEETING DATE: 12/13 —14, 2000 DIVISION I
Bulk Item: Department: Commissioner Spehar
AGENDA ITEM WORDING:
Approval to advertise a public hearing on an ordinance limiting the terns of County Commissioners.
ITEM BACKGROUND:
. PREVIOUS RELEVANT BOCC ACTION:
STAFF RECOMMENDATION:
TOTAL COST:
BUDGETED: Yes No
COST TO COUNTY:
REVENUE PRODUCING
APPROVED BY: County Attorney OMB/Purchasing Risk Management
DIVISION DIRECTOR APPROVAL:
(Signature)
Commissioner Dixie-M. Spehar
(Type/Print Name)
DOCUMENTATION: Attached
DISPOSITION: Agenda Item # .. ��
Commissioner Dixie Spehar
ORDINANCE -2000
AN ORDINANCE OF THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
OF MONROE COUNTY, FLORIDA, LIMITING THE NUMBER OF
CONSECUTIVE TERMS TO BE HELD BY A COUNTY
COMMISSIONER; PROVIDING FOR SEVERABILITY; PROVIDING
FOR REPEAL OF ALL ORDINANCES INCONSISTENT HEREWITH;
PROVIDING FOR INCORPORATION INTO THE MONROE
COUNTY CODE; AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE
WHEREAS, the Board of County Commissioners of Monroe County deems it in the best
interest of the general public that the number of consecutive terms on the County Commission
should be limited; NOW, THEREFORE,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF
MONROE COUNTY, THAT
Section 1.) Section 2-21 Monroe County Code, shall be created to read as follows:
"No person shall hold consecutively more than two (2) full terms and one (1) partial term
on the County Commission. Commissioners holding office as of the enactment date of this
Ordinance may serve out the term which they are now holding and consecutively hold one
additional term thereafter, notwithstanding the aforementioned limitation."
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hereby repealed to the extent of said conflict.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 immediately upon receipt of official ,notice
from the Office of the Secretary of State of the State of Florida that this Ordinance has been filed
with said Office.
PASSED AND ADOPTED by the Board of County Commissioners of Monroe County,
Florida, at a regular meeting of the Board held on the day of , 2000.
Mayor George Neugent
Mayor Pro Tem Nora Williams
Commissioner Charles McCoy
Commissioner Murray Nelson
Commissioner Dixie Spehar
(SEAL)
Attest: DANNY L. KOLHAGE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
Clerk of the Circuit Court OF MONROE COUNTY, FLORIDA
By: R�
Deputy Clerk APPROVED AS TOrF6Rfo�
rjorddstermlimit AND AL SUFFI E or/Chairperson
_ ZANNE A, HOTTON