HomeMy WebLinkAboutR-00609RESOLUTION NO. 609.
A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE CITY ATTORNEY TO
GIVE PUBLIC NOTICE OF THE INTENTION OF THE CITY
TO APPLY TO THE NEXT LEGISLATURE FOR THE PASSAGE
OF THE SPECIAL OR LOCAL LAWS SET FORTH IN THIS
RESOLUTION.
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COMMISSION OF THE_CITY OFACIAMP,
Section 1.
That the City At'orney be and he is hereby authorized
to give notice by publishing once a week for siity (60) days
in the morning and afternoon paper the intention of the City
Commission to apply to the Legislature at it's ne*t regular
session in 1923 for the passage of the following local or special
laws, to —wit: An act amending Section 57 of the Charter of the
City of Miami, Florida of 1921 so tat the same shall read
as follows:
"The Commission of the City of Miami, by resolution,
may issue from time to time Revenue Bonds of the City, bearing
interest at not more than six per cent. per annum, payable at
the time of issuance or thereafter, for the purpose of providing
funds in anticipation of current revenues, and :Lay issue Revenue
Refundine; Bonds, with like limitations ae to interest, when deemed
necessary to provide for the pay:Leht of any of such Revenue Bonds
or Revenue Refunding Bonds at th ir maturity; no such Revenue
Bonds or ..venue Refundini.: shall mature later than the
close of the fiscal year in vhich the se are issued, except
that Revenge Refundiht Bonds issued in the last three months of
any fiscal year day .:atue either in said fiscal year or at
any ti:fie in the ensuin6 fiscal year. Before the passage of any
resolution authorizinb Revenue Bonds, the Director of Finance
shall subr.it to the Co!r:fLission a state:Lent showin6: (a) the
amount of uncollected taxes and revenues of the preceding
fisca2 year, (b) the al.ount of un7;ollected taxes for the current
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fiscal year, if theretofore levied, but otherwise the amount
of the tax levy for the preoeding fisoal year regardless of
what part thereof shall have been oolleoted, (o) the estimated
amount of uncollected revenues for the ourrent fiscal year
excepting takes, and (d) the amount of all taxes and revenues
embraced in (a) and (b) and (o) above, which are for sinking,
funds for the payment of bonds maturing after the current
fisoal year, and (e) the faoe value of all bonds, notes,
warrants, judgments and other city obligations to pay money
then outstanding or authorized, which have no fined time of
payment, or which by their terms are payable within one year
and three months from the date of their respective issuance.
The substance of such statement of the Director of Finance shell
be recited in said resolution and no Revenue Bonds shall therein
be authorized whose face value, together with the amount of
item (e) above shall exceed 75% of the remainder obtained by
subtractinb item (d) from the sum of items (a), (b) and (c)
above. Such Revenue Bonds and Revenue Refunding Bonds shall be
Bold by the Commission upon such terms as it may elect, but
shall not be sold at lees than par value, except by a vote of
at least four thea:bers elect of the Commission and then at a
price of not less than $99 on $100, but said resolution may
authorize the Director of Finance to sell
the bonds authorized by it, at one time or from time .to time in
hie discretion as he deems for the best interest of the City,
but any such authority to the Director of Finance ar—spaliderterIX
shall specify the maximum amount of bonds to be issued, the
:raxivur:i rate c interest, and the minimum vice for which they
:nay be sold. The rroceeds of Revenue Bonds shall be paid into
the Treasury of the City to the credit of any one or more of
the funds for r.hicr the uncollected taxes and revenue anticipated
are tc be collected in such amount and to such fund or funds
as may be srecified in such resolution, but the Commission shall
not arr roxresat e any E,reat sr amount of such rroceeds into -.ny
one fund t1,
ca% reascnab1y be r;raii therefrom tc meet the
payment of such bonds at their maturity; provided, h
that the validity of any such bonds aha11 not be affected by
failure of the Commission to comply with the last mentioned
direction. The prooeeds of Revenue Refunding Bonds shall be
applied solely to the payment of the bonds for whose retire
ment they shall be issued. For the payment of said Revenue
Bonds and Revenue Refunding Bonds, andthe interest thereon,
at such place or places in Florida or elsewhere as may be
designated by the Commission, the Commission is hereby author—
ized to levy sufficient taxes upon all the tauable property
within the City of Miami over and above all other taxes
authorized or limited by law, and said bonds shall be the
absolute, direct and general obligations of said City. In
each year at the time of the annual tax levy there shall be
included therein a tax for the payment of the principal and
interest of any Revenue Bonds which have matured and remain
unpaid, and any Revenue Refunding Bonds whether matured or not.
It shall be the duty of said City, after the authorization of
any Revenue Bonds or Revenue Refunding Bonds, to reserve from
current revenuee, as received, except revenues for sinking
funds for bonds maturing after the current fiscal year, a sum
sufficient to meet the payment of such Revenuedlinie and Revenue
Refunding Bonds at maturity, and the interest thereon.
Authority to issue any cr all bonds authcrized hereunder by
resolution may be revoked by resolution of the Commission, thereby
reducing, the amount of authorized bonds and m e tante_ reducing
the amount of current revenues which must be reserved for their
payment. It shall not be necessary to submit such bends, or
the resolution authorizing the saee, to a vote of electors or
taxpayers, and the resolution authorizing, the same shall be in
force uyon its passage."
PASSED AND ADOPTED this 2.5 �{ day of January,
A.D. 1923.
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