0385 (Comprehensive Planning Act)ORDINANCE NO.
385
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF OKEECHOBEE, FLORIDA,
DESIGNATING AND ESTABLISHING THE CITY COUNCIL AS
ITS' LOCAL PLANNING AGENCY PURSUANT TO THE LOCAL
GOVERNMENT COMPREHENSIVE PLANNING ACT OF 1975,
(CHAPTERS 163.3161 - 163.3211, Florida Statutes);
SETTING FORTH SAID AGENCY'S DUTIES AND RESPONSI-
BILITIES; ESTABLISHING SAID AGENCY'S ORGANIZATION,
RULES AND PROCEDURES; REQUIRING THAT ALL MEETINGS
BE PUBLIC AND PROVIDING FOR THE KEEPING OF PUBLIC
RECORDS; PROVIDING FOR FINANCIAL SUPPORT: PROVIDING
FOR SEVERABILITY OF ANY PORTION DECLARED INVALID;
REPEALING ALL ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT HEREWITH; AND
PROVIDING FOR THE EFFECTIVE DATE HEREOF.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF OKEECHOBEE,
FLORIDA:
SECTION 1: AUTHORITY: This ordinance is enacted
pursuant to and in accordance with, provisions of Chapter 163,
Florida Statutes (Local Government Comprehensive Planning Act
of 1975) .
SECTION 2: DESIGNATION AND ESTABLISHMENT OF LOCAL LAND
PLANNING AGENCY: Pursuant to, and in accordance with, Section
163.3174, of Florida Statutes (the Local Government Comprehen-
sive Planning Act of 1975) the City Council is hereby designated
and established as the local planning agency for the incorporated
area of the City of Okeechobee, Florida.
SECTION 3: DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE LOCAL
PLANNING AGENCY: The local planning agency, in accordance
with the Local Government Comprehensive Planning Act of 1975,
Section 163.3161 - 3211, Florida Statutes, shall:
(a) Conduct the comprehensive planning program and prepare
the comprehensive plan or elements or portions thereof
for the City of Okeechobee, Florida;
(b) Coordinate said comprehensive plan or elements or portions
thereof with the comprehensive plans of other appropriate
local governments and the State of Florida;
(c) Recommend said comprehensive plan or elements or portions
thereof to the City Council for adoption; and
(d) Monitor and oversee the effectiveness and status of the
comprehensive plan and recommend to the City Council
such changes in the comprehensive plan as may be required
from time to time.
SECTION 4: ORGANIZATION, RULES AND PROCEDURES OF THE
AGENCY: Members of the local planning agency shall continue
to be appointed and follow such rules of procedure, methods of
choosing officers, setting of public meetings, providing of
financial support, and accomplishing its duties as provided in
the charter and ordinances of the City of Okeechobee.
SECTION 5: PUBLIC MEETINGS AND RECORDS: All meetings
of the local planning agency shall be public meetings and all
agency records shall be public records. The local planning
agency shall encourage public participation.
SECTION 6: The City Council shall appropriate funds
at its discretion to the local planning agency for expenses
necessary in the conduct of its work. The local planning
agency may, in order to accomplish the purposes and activities
required by the Local Government Comprehensive Planning Act
of 1975, expend all sums so appropriated and other sums made
available for use from fees, gifts, state or federal grants,
state or federal loans, and other sources; provided acceptance
of loans or grants must be approved by the City Council.
SECTION 6: SEVERABILITY: If any word, sentence,
phrase, clause, section or portion of this ordinance shall be
held invalid or unconstitutional by a court of competent
jurisdiction, such portion or words shall be deemed a seperate
and independent provision and such holding shall not effect
the validity of the remaining portions thereof.
SECTION 7: REPEAL OF CONFLICTING ORDINANCES AND
RESOLUTIONS: All ordinances and resolutions of the governing
body in conflict herewith are hereby repealed.
SECTION 8: EFFECTIVE DATE: This ordinance shall become
effective immediately upon its final passage and adoption.
PASSED AND ADOPTED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF OKEE-
CHOBEE, FLORIDA THIS 9th DAY OF September , A.D.,
ATTEST:
City Cler
Press ent City Council
APPROVED BY ME THIS 9th DAY OF September , 1976.
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Mayor
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City of Okeechobee, Florida
NOTICE OF PROPOSED ORDINANCE
Notice is hereby given that the Ordinance described below
by title only will be placed on third and final reading at the
Regular Meeting of the City Council of the City of Okeechobee,.
Florida, to be held on September 9, 1976, at 7:00 P. M., at the
City Hall, or as soon thereafter as such Ordinance may be read and
considered for passage.
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF OKEECHOBEE, FLORIDA,
DESIGNATING AND ESTABLISHING THE CITY COUNCIL AS
ITS' LOCAL PLANNING AGENCY PURSUANT TO THE LOCAL
GOVERNMENT COMPREHENSIVE PLANNING ACT OF 1975,
(CHAPTERS 163.3161 - 163.3211, FLORIDA STATUTES);
SETTING FORTH SAID AGENCY'S DUTIES AND RESPONSI-
BILITIES; ESTABLISHING SAID AGENCX'S ORQANIZATION,
RULES AND PROCEDURES; REQUIRING THAT ALL MEETINGS
BE PUBLIC AND PROVIDING FOR THE KEEPING OF PUBLIC
RECORDS; PROVIDING FOR FINANCIAL SUPPORT: PRO-
VIDING FOR SEVERABILITY OF ANY PORTION DECLARED
INVALID; REPEALING ALL ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT HERE-
WITH; AND PROVIDING FOR THE EFFECTIVE DATE HEREOF.
Said Ordinance may be inspected in the office of the City
Clerk at the City Hall, City of Okeechobee, Florida. Interested
parties may appear at said meeting and be heard with respect to
the enactment of said Ordinance.
BY ORDER OF THE CITY COUNCIL.
—ZZ2fia/aaG6?L'd-
City Clerk
PUBLISHED IN THE OKEECHOBEE NEWS: AUGUST 19, 1976.
FISHERMAN'S PARADISE * BEEF AND DAIRY CAPITAL OF FLORIDA
The Okeechobee News
A Division of Sunshine Nerspnpers, Inc.
P. 0. ae. 638
OkeeeheI o, Florida 33472
Published Weekly
Okeechobee, Okeechobee County, Florida
STATE OF FLORIDA
COUNTY OF OKEECHOBEE
Before the undersigned authority personally appeared
J. David Fleming
who on oath says he is Publisher of the
Okeechobee News, a weekly newspaper published at
Okeechobee, in Okeechobee County, Florida; that the
attached copy of advertisement, being a
Notice of Proposed Ordinance
in the matter of
an Ordinance of the City of
Okeechobee - Okeechobee, Florida
in the City Clerk's_ Office
5`tiat of Okeechobee
County, Florida, was published in said newspaper in the
issues of
August 19, 1976
Affiant further says that the said Okeechobee News is a
newspaper published at Okeechobee, in said Okeechobee
County, Florida, and that said newspaper has heretofore
been published continuously in said Okeechobee County,
Florida, each week and has been entered as second class
mail matter at the post office in Okeechobee, in said
Okeechobee County, Florida, for a period of one year next
preceding the first publication of the attached copy of
advertisement; and affiant further says that he has neither
paid nor promised any person, firm or corporation any
discount, rebate, commission or refund for the purpose of
securing this advertisement for publication in the said
newspaper.
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