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Home My WebLink AboutO-12980City of Miami Legislation Ordinance: 12980 City Hall 3500 Pan American Drive Miami, FL 33133 www.miamigov.com File Number: 08-00229 Final Action Date: 4/10/2008 AN ORDINANCE OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION AMENDING CHAPTER 54/ARTICLE IV OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA, AS AMENDED, ENTITLED "STREETS AND SIDEWALKS/NAMING OF STREETS AND NUMBERING OF BUILDINGS," MORE PARTICULARLY BY REPEALING SECTION 54-140, ENTITLED, "STREET CODESIGNATION REVIEW COMMITTEE," THEREBY SUNSETTING THE MIAMI STREET CODESIGNATION REVIEW COMMITTEE; CONTAINING A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE AND PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA: Section 1. The Miami Street Codesignation Review Committee is sunsetted and Chapter 54, Section 54-140, is repealed in its entirety to effect said sunset. Section 2. Chapter 54/Article IV of the Code of the City of Miami, Florida, as amended ("City Code"), entitled "Streets and Sidewalks/Naming of Streets and Numbering of Buildings," is further amended in the following particulars:{1} "CHAPTER 54 STREETS AND SIDEWALKS ARTICLE IV. NAMING OF STREETS AND NUMBERING OF BUILDINGS Sec. 54 140. Street codesignation review committee. (a) Crcation. The Miami strcct codesignation review committee is hereby created and may be referred to by that term or "codesignation committee" or "committee." (b) Composition; terms; appoint► entFrecnval. {2) All members shall serve without compensation for terms of office of one year, or until the commission for any cause. Any vacancy occurring during such term shall be filled for the remainder of the term in the same manner as the original appointment. {3) Members shall reside in the city, work in the city, or maintain a place of busine.s or office in the City of Miami Page 1 of 3 File Id: 08-00229 (Version: 1) Printed On: 5/1/2017 File Number: 08-00229 Enactment Number: 12980 city or own real property in the city at the time of their appointment. {c) Scope. The committee shall have -the -responsibility taeresponsibility to review the street codesignation, marker and plaza designation requests and to make recommendations to the city commission to guide the commission in its determination as to whether a street should be codesignated or a marker or a plaza should bc designated. The city commission shall not bc bound by any recommendation or advice received from the committee. {1) The committee shall select one of its members as chairperson. No chairperson shall serve more than two years in office. A vice chairperson may also be designated by the committee from among its members to serve as chairperson at any meeting if the chairperson is absent from such meeting. {2) The committee may adopt its own order of busine.a and rules of parliamentary procedure. {3) The members present shall constitute a quorum for the purpose of convening a meeting. An affirmative vote of not Tess than 50 percent of the members present and voting at any meeting is required for any action to be taken by the members. {A) Meetings shall be scheduled by the committee at least twice each year to review proposed city commission. If there is no busine.a pending before the committee, the meeting may be dispensed with. The time and place of the meetings shall be fixed by the committee. {5) The meetings of the committee shall be publicly announced, not le.s than ten days in advance of the public meeting, by publishing the time and place of the meeting and the proposals to be considered by the committee, in a newspaper of general paid circulation in the city and of general interest and readership in the community. A notice of the meeting shall also be posted in all intersections -proposed to be codesignated or where the designation of a plaza or marker is -proposed. The posted notice shall consist of a sign at least three square feet in area, shall be of a color distinguishable from the surrounding landscape and shall be erected in full view of the public on each street side of the intersection. {6) The committee shall make recommendations in writing to the city commission at least twice each year and shall file a copy of the recommendations with the city clerk. The committee shall provide such additional recommendations as, from time to time, may be necessary to discharge its responsibility. {7) It shall be the duty of the city manager to provide administrative support to the committee which shall include the services of an individual to keep minutes of meetings, maintain committee correspondence, post meeting notices, file reports and perform all other necessary support functions. Section 3. The provisions contained in Section 54-137 of the City Code, entitled "Street Codesignation," shall remain in effect. Section 4. 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. Section 5. It is the intention of the City Commission that the provisions of the Ordinance shall become and be made a part of the Code of the City of Miami, Florida, as amended, which provision may be renumbered or relettered to accomplish such intention. Section 6. This Ordinance shall become effective thirty (30) days after final reading and adoption thereof. {2} City of Miami Page 2 of 3 File Id: 08-00229 (Version: 11 Printed On: 5/1/2017 File Number: 08-00229 Enactment Number: 12980 Footnotes: {1} 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. Asterisks indicate omitted and unchanged material. {2} This Ordinance shall become effective as specified herein unless vetoed by the mayor within ten days from the date it was passed and adopted. If the Mayor vetoes this Ordinance, it shall become effective immediately upon override of the veto by the City Commission or upon the effective date stated herein, whichever is later. City of Miami Page 3 of 3 File Id: 08-00229 (Version: 11 Printed On: 5/1/2017