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HomeMy WebLinkAboutO-10387ORDINANCE NO - - i0 8T AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 31-48(I), OF THE CODE Off` THE CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA, AS AMENDED, TO PROVIDE THAT INSURANCE COMPANIES WRITING ANY CLASS OF INSURANCE UPON ANY PERSON, INCORPORATED OR UNINCORPORATED BUSINESS ENTITY OR PROPERTY RESIDING OR LOCATED WITHIN TR8 CITY SHALL BE SUBJECT TO THE CITY'S OCCUPATIONAL LICENSR TAX; FURTHER SETTING FORTH THE RATE FOR SAID TAX; CONTAINING A REPEALER PROVISION AND A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE. WHEREAS, the City of Miami is desirous of exercising its occupational licensing tax powers in accordance with current laws, rules and regulations; and WHEREAS, the Honorable Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General for the State of Florida, issued a legal opinion on June 4, 1987, which opinion stated that Florida municipalities could lawfully levy occupational license taxes on insurance companies engaged in interstate commerce and doing business within a municipality where they were engaged in local activities, separable from extraterritorial business activities; and WHEREAS, the Attorney General opined that pursuant to certain amendments to Chapter 205, Florida Statutes ("The Occupational License Tax Act"), the state has delegated the ability to counties and municipalities to impose occupational license taxes upon insurance companies; and WHEREAS, the Attorney General and the Florida League of Cities have determined that foreign insurance companies which are writing insurance insuring any person or entity or, property residing or Located within the city's corporate limits are engaged in doing business within the city and therefore subject to the municipal local occupational license tax; and WHEREAS, the instant amendment to the City of Miami's occupational license tax ordinance imposes an, occupational license tax on foreign insurance companies doing business within th City in aocordanoe witb the foregoing legal. authorities; 10387 NOW, TAMPOM 89 IT OADAIRtD BY Tift COMMISSION OF TH8 CITY OF MIAMI, PLORIDA: Section 1. [Chapter 81, Licenses and Miscellaneous Business Regulations, Article Ili Licenses: ]Division : Schedule of License Taxes] Section 31-48(l) of the Code of the City of Miami, Plorida, as amended., is hereby amended in the following particulars: 1 / "Sec. :31-48. Established. The assessment of License takes are hereby fixed as follows: I Insurance Companies, or associations, operating in the City - or writing any class of insurance specified below anon any person, incorporated or unincorporated the City: A. Casualty and liability insurance companies, each company....................................$418.00 b. Fire insurance companies, each company....................................$418.00 c. Industrial insurance companies and funeral benefit associations or companies, Qaeh company or association.............................:.$418.00 d. Life insurance companies, each company...................................$418.00 e. Group, self-insurance pools, reciprocal pools, Inter -insurance exchanges, or any other person, group, or association, as set forth under the provisions of (e) below, each such pool, company, association or exchange or whatever they may, be called.......... ........................$418.00 Insurance companies are classified and defined as follows: a. Class 1: Casualty and liability insurance companies (including bonding companies) writing: 1. Accident and healthinsurance only, on an. annual, semiannual or quarterly premium - paying basis; and 2. Bonds, including fidelity, court, contract and surety bonds and financial guarantees and title insurance or guarantees, Words and/or figures stricken through shall be deleted. Underscored words and/or figures shall be added, The remaining provisions are now In effect and. remain unchanged. Asterlsks inUoate omitted and unohanged material. 3. turglary insurance, inoluding residence, bank stocks, bonds and securities, safe -burglary and holdup and messenger robbery, 4. Liability insurance, including employers', public and other forms of liability insurance and automobile liability for personal injury, property damage and collision, 3. Plate glass insurance, 6. 'Workers` collective insurance issued to employers of Labor. b. Class 2: Fire insurance companies, writing policies of insurance against hazards of fire, tornado and windstorms, use and occupancy; profits, rents, leasehold, insurrection, riot and civil commotion, sprinkler leakage, rain, fire, theft, automobile, collision; marine cargo, and hulls, and rail, mail and express shipments against fire, collision, stranding or sinking, c. Class 3: industrial insurance companies (including funeral benefit associations or companies) writing life or accident and health insurance and funeral benefits on a weekly, bimonthly or monthly premium -paying basis. d. Class 4 Life insurance companies writing life insurance with or without disability clauses or accident and health features as. a part of the policy contract upon an annual, semi-annual or quarter -annual premium -paying basis. e. Class 5: Group, self-insurance pools, reciprocal pools, inter -insurance exchanges, or any other person, group or association, incorporated or unincorporated, formed for the purpose of providing or writing insurance for policyholders, employees, subscribers, persons, groups or corporations for any type of loss sustained, specifically including all of the various types of coverages mentioned herein in 'classes 1 through 4 above. Section 2. All ordinances or parts of ordinances insofar as they are inconsistent or inconflict with the provisions of this ordinance are hereby repealed. Section 3. If any section, part of section, paragraph, clause, phrase or word of this Ordinance is declared invalid, the remaining provisions of this Ordinance shall: not be affected. This Ordinance shall be effective and the provisions thereof, unless otherwise indicated, shall become operative inr accordance with City Charter provisions, PASSED ON FIRST READING BY TITLE ONLY this 14th Clay of January 2 1988, ATT 4MAT Y HIRAI City Clerk PREPARED AND APPROVED BY: f 4RAIVE.-SUARE -RIVAS Assistant City Attorney APPROVED AS TO FORM AND CORRECTNESS: LUCIA A. DOUGHERTY City Attorney RSR!ebg/yv/bss/M254 I, Matt\ Hirai, Clerk of the City of Miami, FloM hereby- certifi• that �►n the__43-day of. ' A. 0. 19_ -2 a fall. true ;►►id c(,reek copy c►f th4 e :,:A t ;r^p;tiin nr:lin.mcc ww; p.)sted :it the South I'oor 0;* tir: Dtide Count. C; ,,art i- 'AFc at the'' ;tror"ded ?i* it :gees and ,►ali'i : it ,►:, by 'ituichinL! .,:tid cky..' to t;►: t�l:ace pravid....1 m: h;1111 :tttd tl►c 0;.6 ml S4?.,] of said City at}° ia�s•i: MIAMI REVIEW Put iic,hrrtl Daily t=Y Ievt .5alu,r:ay. ;3wvl ry and Lrgai Hohdap= 'vliaml, Dzide ('minty. Fl: nda STATE OF FLORIDA COUNTY OF DADE: Before the undersigned authority personally appeared Oclelma V. Ferbeyre, who on oath says that she is the Supervisor of Legal Advertising of the Miami Review, a daily (except Saturday, Sunday and Legal Holidays) newspaper, published at Miami in Dade County, Florida: that the attached copy of advertisement, being a Legal Advertisement of Notice in the matter of CITY OF MIAMI ORDINANCE NO. 10387 In the X. X. X Court, was published in said newspaper in the issues of March 9, 1988 Alfiant further says that the said Miami Review is a newspaper published at Miami In said Dade County, Florida, and that the said newspaper has heretofore been continuously published In said Dade County, Florida, each day (except Saturday, Sunday and Legal Holidays) and has been entered as second class mail matter at the Post office in Miami in said Dade County, Florida, for a period of one year next preceding the first publication of the attached copy of advertisement; and atfiant further says that she has paid nor promised any person, irm or corporation iscou ,rebate, commission P P or ref nd for the purpose s curing is advertisement for publ atitm in the said n a er, , ry my�o and-etb?oibed before me this 9 t h day or ' Na r,G h, ; A.D. 19. rrt Xt JS %nchar- Utsj� r&blic"S e_bf FI ri a at Large (SEAL) i� (J�' • , c . ��. My Commis5(pne ires •JOne 2T, 'I08 MR 115 I„;,ufiltttta� CItV OF MIAMI bAbift CCURtYi, PLIONtbA UOAL IliOfiiCE All interested persons will take notice that on the loth day of Pebruary, 3 1998, the City Commission of Miami, Florida, adopted the following titled ordinances: OWXNANCt NO.1038d AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 1 OF ORDINANCE NO. 16269, ADOPTED MAY 14, 1987, CONCERNING THE SPECIAL REVENUE FUND ENTITLED: "REOREATION PROGRAMS FOR THE MENTALLY HANDICAPPEDICONSOLIDATED", BY INCREAS- ING THE APPROPRIATIONS TO SAID FUND BY $279,537 COM- POSED OF $234,537 FROM THE STATE OF FLORIDA, DEPART- MENT OF HEALTH AND REHABILITATIVE SERVICES AND '$45,000 i FROM FISCAL YEAR 1987.88 SPECIAL PROGRAMS AND AGCOUNfiS, MATCHING FUNDS FOR GFIANTS, TO CONTINUE THE OPERA• TION OF THE AFOREMENTIONED GRANT PROGRAM; AUTHOR., DING THE CITY MANAGER TO ACCEPT THE ADDITIONAL GRANT AWARD AND TO ENTER INTO THE NECESSARY CONTRACTS) ANDIOR AGREEMENT(S) to ACCEPT THE ADDITIONAL GRANT AWARD; CONTAINING A REPEALER PROVISION AND A SEVER - ABILITY CLAUSE, ORDINANCE NO. 10395 AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 54.5.80E THE CODE OF I THE CITY_OF MIAMI, FLORIDA, AS AMENDED, "PLATS AND PLATTING -PROCEDURE -FINAL PLAT", BY ADDING A NEW SUBSEC TION (a), "APPROVAL BY CITY COMMISSION", PROVIDING A TIME LIMITATION FOR RECORDATION OF PLATS AFTER APPROVAL BY THE CITY COMMISSION; PROVIDING FOR RECISION OF APPROVAL OF PLATS BY THE CITY COMMISSION; PROVIDING FOR AN EXTENSION OF THE TIME LIMITATION; CONTAINING A REPEALER PROVISION AND A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE. ORDINANCE NO. 16386 AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 1 OF ORDINANCE10289, ADOPTED, JUNE 25, 1987, BY INCREASING THE APPROPRIA- TION TO THE SPECIAL REVENUE FUND 'ENTITLED: "NEIGH- BORHOODS JOBS PROGRAM (FY '88)" BY $35,597, THEREBY INCREASING THE APPROPRIATION FOR THE SPECIAL REVE- NUE FUND ENTITLED: "NEIGHBORHOODS JOBS PROGRAM (FY '88)" TO $517,197 FOR THE OPERATION OF THE. NEIGW BORHOODS JOBS PROGRAM; FURTHER AUTHORIZING THE ' CITY MANAGER TO ACCEPT THE GRANT AWARD FROM THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF LABOR AND TO ENTER INTO THE NECESSARY CONTRACT(S) ANDIOR AGREEMENT(S) WITH THE SOUTH FLORIDA EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING CONSOR- TIUM (SFETC) TO ACCEPT THE GRANTS; CONTAINING A REPEALER PROVISION AND A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE, ORDINANCE NO.10387 AN ORDINANCE AMENDING, SECTION 31.48(1), OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA, AS AMENDED, TO PROVIDE THAT INSURANCE COMPANIES WRITING ANY CLASS OF INSUR-- ANCE'UPON ANY PERSON; INCORPORATED OR UNINCORPO- RATED BUSINESS ENTITY OR PROPERTY RESIDING OR LOCATED WITHIN THE CITY SHALL BE SUBJECT TO THE CITY'S OCCU. PATIONAL LICENSE TAX; FURTHER SETTING FORTH THE RATE FOR SAID TAX: CONTAINING A -REPEALER PROVISION AND A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE. ORDINANCE NO. 10388 AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE MIAMI COMPREHENSIVE NEIGH- BORHOOD PLAN AND ADDENDA (SEPTEMBER 1985) FOR PROP- ERTY LOCATED AT APPROXIMATELY 2347 NORTHWEST 32ND PLACE AND 34 NORTHWEST 32ND COURT (MORE- PARTICU- LARLY DESCRIBED HEREIN) BY CHANGING DESIGNATION OF THE SUBJECT PROPERTY FROM LOW MODERATE DENSITY. RESIDENTIAL TO MODERATE HIGH DENSITY RESIDENTIAL USE; i MAKING FINDINGS; CONTAINING A REPEALER PROVISION AND I A SEVERA131LITY,CLAUSE ORDINANCE NO. 10389 AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE ZONING ATLAS OF ORDINANCE NO. 9500, THE ZONING ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA, BY CHANGING THE ZONING CLASSIFICATION OF APPROXIMATELY 23.47 NORTHWEST 32 PLACE, AND THE PROP- ERTY LYING BETWEEN APPROXIMATELY 20 NORTHWEST 32 COURT AND 50 NORTHWEST 32 NORTHWEST 32ND COURT; MIAMI, FLORIDA, (MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED HEREIN) FROM 80-1/3 GENERAL RESIDENTIAL TO RG-316 GENERAL RES- IDENTIAL;BY MAKING FINDINGS; AND BY MAKING ALL THE NECESSARY CHANGES ON PAGE NO. 33 OF SAID ZONING ATLAS MADE A PART OF ORDINANCE NO. 9500 BY REFER. ENCE AND DESCRIPTION IN ARTICLE 3, SECTION 300, THERE., OF; CONTAINING A REPEALER PROVISION AND A SEVE13ABIL- ITY CLAUSE. ORDINANCE NO.10390 AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF MIAMI,.FLORI., DA, AMENDING ORDINANCE NO, 10272, ADOPTED ON MAY .14, j I 1987, WHICH AU:'HORIZED THE ISSUANCE OF GENERAL O8L1 i GATION REFUNDING BONDS, SERIES 1987, OF THE CITY OF ' MIAMI, FLORIDA, IN AN AGGREGATE PRINCIPAL AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $40,000,000; MORE PARTICULARLY AMENDING SEC• . TIONS 2, 13, 14 AND 19 OF SAID ORDINANCE NO. 10272, TO REDEFINE THE TERM "ORIGINAL PURCHASERS' ; ALSO RESTAT+ ING THE ELIGIBILITY CRITERION FOR THE APPOINTMENT OF THE ESCROW AGENT AND BOND REGISTRAR; FURTHER CZAR—F IFYING THE DEFEASANCE PROVISIONS•CONTAINED IN SAID ORDINANCE NO. 10272, ANO PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE. Said ordinances may bo inspected by the public at the Office of the City Clerk. 35W Pan American Dive, Miami, Florida, Monday through Friday,- excluding holidays, between the hours of 8:00 A.M, and 5:00 P,M, MATTY HIRAI CITY CLERK CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA (0.4232) 88-G30926M 11 In Cl" OP MIAMI. FV6131bA IN'ten-OPPICE MtMOAANOUM Honorable Mayor and Members DATE: of the City Commission SUC3JECT: ROM: Lucia A, Dougherty REFERENCES: City Attorney ENCLOSURES: December 24, 198701Lt 7-88-01 ordinance Amending Occupation License Code to Clarify Defin tion of Insurance Companies Subject to License Tax RECOMMELNOATION It is respectfully recommended that the City Commission adopt the attached ordinance amending Section 31-48(l) of the City Code relative to insurance companies in order to provide that foreign insurance companies will be subject to payment of the City's occupational license tax* BACKGROUND The Director_ of the Finance Department recently requested an amendment to the applicable section of Chapter 31 of the City of Miami Code to increase the scope of the City's occupational licensing tax provisions to include foreign insurance companies. Presently, Section. 31-48(I) of the City Code, which in part sets forth the schedule of license taxes pertaining to insurance companies or associations, limits the levy of an occupational license to insurance companies operating within the City limits. Recently, the Attorney General of the State of Florida issued a legal opinion opining that a Florida municipality does have the authority to levy an occupational license tax upon foreign insurance companies, even though they do not have an office. within that City; therefore, they are subject to a municipal license tax if they are engaged in business within the city. (1987 Op. Atty. Gen. Fla. 87-55, June 4,; 1987). Accordingly, our office has prepared the attached ordinance which provides that (foreign) insurance companies writing any class of insurance upon any person or property residing or located within the City pay an annual municipal occupational license tax of $418.00, which is the same rate imposed on insurance companies located in the City. 038 Honorable Mayor And bedetbor 24, 1981 Mitb6t8 of the City COMffii6AiOfI Page 2 The City Managet is receiving a copy hereof so that he may place this item on the City Commission Agenda. RSR/wpc/ebg/PI13 CC., Cesar H. Odio City Manager Carlos Garcia, Director Finance Department P. E. Luney, Assistant Finance Director