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ELECTORS AND GENERAL, PRIMARY, SPECIAL, Chapter
ELECTIONS BOND, AND REFERENDUM
ELECTIONS
100.342 Notice of special election or referendum.—In any special
election or referendum not otherwise provided for there shall be at least 30
days' notice of the election or referendum by publication in a newspaper of
general circulation in the county, district, or municipality, as the case may be.
The publication shall be made at least twice, once in the fifth week and once
in the third week prior to the week in which the election or referendum is to
beheld. If there is no newspaper of general circulation in the county, district,
or municipality, the notice shall be posted in no less than five places within the
territorial limits of the county, district, or municipality.
History.—s. 1, ch. 59-335; s. 2, ch. 65.60; s. 12, ch. 77-175.
MMII-DADS County Home Rule Charter Provisions
SECTION 6,02. MUNICIPAL POWERS.
Each municipality shall have the authority to exercise
all powers relating to its local affairs not inconsistent
with this Charter. Each municipality may provide for
higher standards of zoning, service, and regulation than
those provided by the Board of County Commissioners in
order that its individual character and standards may be
preserved for its citizens;
SECTION 6.03. MUNICIPAL CHARTERS.
A. Except as provided in Section 6.04, any
municipality in the county may adopt, amend, or revoke
a charter for its own government or abolish its existence in
the following manner, Its governing body shall, within 120
days after adopting a resolution or after the certification
of a petition of ten percent of the qualified electors of the
municipality, draftor have draftedby ainethod determined
by municipal ordinance a proposed charter amendment,
revocation, or abolition which shall be submitted to the
electors of the municipalities, Unless an election occurs
not less than 60 nor more than 120 days after the draft is
submitted, the proposal shall be submitted at a special
election within that time, The governing body shall make
copies of the proposal available to the electors not less than
30 days before the election. Alternative proposals may be
submitted. Each proposal approved by a majority of the
electors voting on such proposal shall become effective at
the time fixed in the proposal.
B. All municipal charters, amendments thereto,
and repeals thereof shall be filed with the Cleric of the
Circuit Court,
SECTION 6,04, CHANGES IN MUNICIPAL
BOUNDARIES.
- A. The planning director shall study municipal
boundaries with a view to recommending their orderly
adjustment, improvement, and establishment. Proposed
boundary changes may be initiated by the Planning
Advisory Board., the Board. of County Commissioners, the
governing body of a municipality, or by a petition of any
person or group concerned.
B. The Board of County. Commissioners, after
obtaining :the approval of the municipal governing
bodies concerned, after hearing the recommendations of
the Planning Advisory Board, and after a public hearing,
may by ordinance effect boundary changes, with an
affirmative vote of the members of the Board of County
Commissioners, In malting such decision, the Board shall
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• See 2 X12. - Charter amendments, method of drafting; approval by city commission; submission to
electorate.
(a)
The city attorney shall draft, with the assistance of any individual the city attorney deems necessary, a
Charter amendment within 120 days after the city commission adopts a resolution directing the city
attorney to prepare such amendment or after the certification of a petition of ten percent of the
qualified electors of the City of Miami requesting such amendment.
(b)
The Charter amendment drafted by the city attorney shall be approved in final form by the city
commission in. a resolution calling for a. special election upon the amendment. The resolution calling
for the special election shall include the text of the amendment draft approved by the city commission,
and such draft shall be deemed submitted to the electorate by the adoption of said resolution.
(c)
A special election upon said amendment shall occur not less than 60 nor more than 120 days after the
draft is submitted..
(Ord. No. 10116, § 1, 6-12-86; Code 1980, § 42)