CHAPTER 6342-(No. 223). AN ACT to Repeal Chapter 5803 of the Laws of Florida Enacted in 1907, the Same Being Entitled "An Act to Incorporate the Town of Floral City, in Citrus County, Florida; to Provide for Its Government, Jurisdiction, Powers and Privileges." Be it Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: Section 1. That Chapter 5803 of the Acts of Florida of 1907, the same being "An Act to incorporate the Town of Floral City, in Citrus County, Florida; to provide for its government, jurisdiction, powers and privileges," be and the same is hereby repealed. Approved June 5, 1911. 1911 CHAPTER 6343-(No. 224). AN ACT to Abolish the Present Municipal Government of the Town of Fort Launderdale, in the County of Dade, and the State of Florida, and to Establish, Or ganize and Constitute a Municipality To Be Known and Designated as the Town of Fort Lauderdale, and to Define Its Territorial Boundaries, and to Provide for Its Jurisdiction, Powers and Privileges; to Authorize and Provide for the Assessment and Collection of Taxes in Said Town for the Year 1911 and Subsequent Years. Be it Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: Section 1. That the present Municipal Government of the Town of Fort Lauderdale is hereby abolished. Sec. 2. That a municipality to be known and desig nated as the Town of Fort Lauderdale is hereby established, organized and constituted in the County of Dade and the State of Florida, the territorial boundaries of which shall be as follows: 1911 Territorial boundaries. Former ordinances. Succession. Succession, etc. Corporate powers. The limits of said municipality shall include all the land embraced in the plat of the Town of Fort Launderdale, Florida, made by A. L. Knowlton, C. E., on file in the office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court in and for Dade County, Florida, and the lands lying to the north, east, south and west of said platted lands for a distance of one thousand three hundred and twenty (1,320) feet; the same being one and one-half (14) miles square-described as follows: Beginning at the northeast corner of the northwest quarter of the southwest quarter of Section two (2)-run west seven thousand nine hundred and twenty (7,920) feet to the northwest corner of the northeast quarter of the southeast quarter of Section four (4); thence south seven thousand nine hundred and twenty (7,920) feet to the south boundary of Section nine (9); thence east along said south boundary line to Sections nine (9), ten (10) and eleven (11), seven thousand nine hundred and twenty (7,920) feet, to a point directly south of the point of beginning; thence due north through Sections eleven (11) and two (2), to the point of beginning. All in Township (50) South, of Range Forty-two (42) east, Dade County, Florida. Sec. 3. That the ordinances heretofore passed, and all acts heretofore done and performed by and through the Council, Mayor and other officers of said Town of Fort Lauderdale, not in conflict with the Constitution of the United States or of this State, are hereby declared to be of full force and validity and binding both in law and in equity. Sec. 4. That the title, right and ownership of property, uncollected taxes, dues and claims, judgments, decrees and choses in action held or owned by the said munici pality of the Town of Fort Lauderdale, shall pass and be vested in the municipal corporation hereby organized to succeed such municipality. Sec. 5. That said corporation shall have perpetual succession, shall sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, and shall have a common seal, which may be changed by the Council at pleasure. Sec. 6. That said corporation may own, purchase, lease, acquire, receive and hold property, real and per sonal, within the territorial boundaries of said corporation, and may own, purchase, lease, acquire, receive and hold property, beyond the limits of said corporation to be used for any or all purposes as the Mayor and Council may deem necessary and proper. Before disposing of any public utility franchise the Council shall give sixty days' notice of their intention to dispose of the same by publication in some newspaper published in Dade County. 1911 powers. Sec. 7. That said corporation is hereby empowered to Corporate sell, lease or otherwise dispose of any and all property. real or personal, which may belong to said corporation, to the same extent as natural persons may do. That the Council may prescribe by ordinance the manner of making such conveyance. Sec. 8. That the corporate authority of said Town Corporate authority. of Fort Lauderdale shall be vested in a Mayor, Council, Clerk, Marshal, Tax Assessor and Collector, and such other officers as shall be appointed and constituted according to ordinances of the said town. No person shall be eligible to any of said offices who shall not be a citizen of the State of Florida and a legal and qualified voter of said State. Sec. 9. That the Mayor shall be elected for the term of Mayor. one year by the qualified electors of said corporation, and shall hold his office until his successor is elected and qualified. His compensation shall be fixed by ordinance, but shall not be changed during his term of office. He shall have power to preserve peace and order and to enforce the ordinances of said corporation. The Mayor shall have jurisdiction for the trial of all offenses against the ordinances of said town. He shall see that the ordinances are faithfully executed and the orders of the Council duly observed and enforced. He shall have power by his warrant to have brought before him any person or persons charged with the violation of said ordinances. He shall have the power to require the attendance of witnesses for or against the accused; to administer oaths; to take affidavits, and to inquire into the truth or falsity of all charges preferred; to decide upon the guilt or innocence of the accused, and to fix by penalty the sentence prescribed by ordinance; to release persons convicted by him, and to have and exercise all the power incident and usual to the due enforcement of his jurisdiction. 1911 Mayor. Mayor. Passage of ordinances. Mayor. Police. Tax sales, etc. Meetings of Sec. 10. That the Mayor shall have the power to suspend any officer, except Councilmen, for misconduct in office or neglect of duty, reporting his action in writing with his reason therefor to the next regular meeting of the Council, for its approval or disapproval. Sec. 11. That the Mayor shall have general supervision over city officers, and may examine into the condition of the offices, books, records and papers thereof and therein, and the manner of conducting official business. He shall report to the Council all violations or neglect of duty on the part of any official, that may come to his knowledge. Sec. 12. That every ordinance passed by the Council, before becoming a law, shall be presented to the Mayor under the certificate and seal of the Clerk; if the Mayor approve the same, he shall sign it and return it to the Clerk, but if he shall not approve it, he shall return it to the Clerk with his objections in writing at or before the next regular meeting of the Council, for reconsideration; and if the Council shall pass the ordinance by a two-thirds vote of all the members present, it shall go into effect. If the Mayor shall fail to return any ordinance, or shall return the same unsigned, without objections in writing, at or before the next regular meeting of the Council after its passage, he shall be deemed to have approved the same, and it shall become a law without his signature. Sec. 13. The Mayor shall communicate from time to time to the Council such information and recommend such measures touching the public service, as he may deem proper, and shall perform such duties as the ordinances may prescribe. Sec. 14. When, in his opinion, the public good requires, the Mayor may appoint and discharge special policemen and detectives. Sec. 15. The Mayor shall have power to bid in, or cause to be bid in, property for the town at all or any tax sales and judicial sales, and all sales under process of law. Sec. 16. The Mayor may call special meetings of the Council, and when called, he shall state the object for which called and the business of such meetings shall be confined to the object so stated. Sec. 17. The Mayor may be impeached by the Council for misfeasance, malfeasance in office, for drunkenness, habitual intoxication or gross immorality. Should charges be preferred against the Mayor, the Council shall furnish the Mayor with a copy of the articles of impeachment, and shall proceed without unnecessary delay to investi· gate and decide them. It shall require a two-thirds vote of said Council to remove him from office. 1911 Mayor may be impeached. tempore. Sec. 18. That in case of the death or absence of the Mayor pro Mayor or his inability from any cause to discharge the duties of the office of Mayor, the President of the Council, or in his absence, the acting President of the Council, shall discharge the duties of Mayor as "Mayor pro tempore," or until the office of Mayor shall be filled. office. Sec. 19. That should there occur a vacancy in any of vacancy in the offices of the said Town of Fort Lauderdale, except Councilmen or Mayor, it shall be the duty of the Mayor to fill said vacancy as soon as possible by appointment, and the party so appointed by said Mayor, shall be confirmed or disapproved by the Council at its next regular meeting. office. Sec. 20. Should the Mayor's office become vacant from Vacancy in any cause, or should there occur a vacancy in the Council at any time three months prior to an election, the Clerk shall immediately certify such fact to the Mayor or Acting Mayor, who shall immediately issue his proclamation calling for a special election to be held to fill such vacancy or vacancies. Said election shall be held not less than thirty days from the issuance of said proclamation, which said proclamation shall be published by in- · serting the same in some newspaper published in the Town of Fort Lauderdale at least three times, or by posting the same in three public places in said town, one of which shall be in the postoffice, at least ten days before said election. Sec. 21. The Council of said town shall be composed of five members, who shall be elected for a term of two years, at a general election of the qualified electors of said town. Two Councilmen shall be elected hereunder at the general election in A. D. 1912, and every two years thereafter; and three Councilmen shall be elected hereunder at the general Council. |