(a) AUTHORIZATION; FORM.--To meet a public emergency affecting life, health, property, or the public peace, the Commission may adopt, in the manner provided in this Section, one or more emergency ordinances, but such ordinances may not: enact or amend a land use plan or rezone private property; levy taxes; grant, renew, or extend any municipal franchise; set service or user charges for any municipal services; or authorize the borrowing of money except as provided under the emergency appropriations provisions of this Charter if applicable. An emergency ordinance shall be introduced in the form and manner prescribed for ordinances generally, except that it shall be plainly designated in a preamble as an emergency ordinance and shall contain, after the enacting clause, a declaration stating that an emergency exists and describing it in clear and specific terms.
(b) PROCEDURE.--Upon the affirmative vote of a majority of the
, an emergency ordinance may be adopted, with or without amendment, or rejected at the meeting at which it is introduced. After its adoption, the ordinance shall be advertised and printed as prescribed for other ordinances.
(c) EFFECTIVE DATE.--Emergency ordinances shall become effective upon adoption or at such other date as may be specified in the ordinance.
(d) REPEAL.--Each emergency ordinance except emergency appropriation ordinances shall automatically be repealed as of the 61st day following its effective date, but this shall not prevent reenactment of the ordinance under regular procedures, or, if the emergency still exists, in the manner specified in this Section. An emergency ordinance may also be repealed by adoption of a repealing ordinance in the same manner specified in this Section for adoption of emergency ordinances.
(e) EMERGENCY APPROPRIATIONS.--To meet a public emergency affecting life, health, property, or the public peace, the Commission, by resolution, may make emergency appropriations. To the extent that there are no unappropriated revenues to meet such appropriation, the Commission may by such emergency resolution authorize the issuance of emergency notes, which may be renewed from time to time, but the emergency notes and renewals in any fiscal year shall be paid not later than the last day of the fiscal year succeeding that in which the emergency appropriations were made.
(Am. Ord. 2006-09, certified 11-20-2006)
Statutory Reference:
Emergency ordinances, see Florida Statutes § 166.041
Enactment or amendment of land use plan, see Florida Statutes § 163.3184
Ordinances rezoning private property, see Florida Statutes § 166.041