HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance No. 14-1989ORDINANCE NO. 14 -89
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF CAPE CANAVERAL,
BREVARD COUNTY, FLORIDA, DELETING FROM
ARTICLE III, SECTION 1, OF THE CAPE CANAVERAL
CHARTER, THE REQUIREMENTS THAT THE MAYOR AND
MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL BE FREEHOLDERS
WITHIN THE CITY AND REQUIRING THEM TO BE
RESIDENTS OF THE CITY FOR A PERIOD OF TWO
YEARS IMMEDIATELY PRECEDING THE ELECTION;
REPEALING ALL PORTIONS OF THE CODE IN
CONFLICT HEREWITH; PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE
DATE.
BE IT ORDAINED by the City Council of the City of Cape
Canaveral, Brevard County, Florida, as follows:
SECTION 1. Article III, Section 1, of the Cape Canaveral
Charter is hereby amended pursuant to the express authority.
granted under Section 166.031(5), Florida Statutes, by deleting
the requirement that the Mayor and City Council members be
freeholders within the City and that they must be residents of
the City for a period of two years immediately preceding their
election, which said language has been judicially construed to
be contrary to either state or federal constitutional law.
Section 1 of Article III is hereby amended as follows:
Section 1. Qualifications of Mayor and
Councilmen. The Mayor and members of the
City Council shall be residents of the City
of Cape Canaveral and shall have and possess
qualifications of electors therein. Any
member of the Council or any Mayor who shall
cease to have and possess the qualifications
imposed on such office or who shall, while in
office, be convicted of a crime involving
moral turpitude, shall forfeit his office and
his seat shall immediately become vacant.
Absence from four consecutive regular
meetings of the City Council, or from thirty
percent of the meetings held annually, shall
operate to vacate the seat of a member of the
City Council or the office of Mayor unless
such absence shall be excused by a resolution
duly adopted by the City Council.
SECTION 2. All portions of the Code in conflict herewith
are hereby repealed.
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SECTION 3. This Ordinance shall take effect immediately
upon its adoption.
ADOPTED by the City Council of the City of Cape Canaveral,
Florida, this 17th day of October
1
, 1989.
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