SENATE AMENDMENT
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11 The Committee on Comprehensive Planning, Local and Military
12 Affairs recommended the following amendment:
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14 Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
15 Delete everything after the enacting clause
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18 That the following amendment to Section 6 of Article
19 VIII of the State Constitution is agreed to and shall be
20 submitted to the electors of Florida for approval or rejection
21 at the general election to be held in November 2002:
22 ARTICLE VIII
23 LOCAL GOVERNMENT
24 SECTION 6. Schedule to Article VIII.--
25 (a) This article shall replace all of Article VIII of
26 the Constitution of 1885, as amended, except those sections
27 expressly retained and made a part of this article by
28 reference.
29 (b) COUNTIES; COUNTY SEATS; MUNICIPALITIES;
30 DISTRICTS. The status of the following items as they exist on
31 the date this article becomes effective is recognized and
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1 shall be continued until changed in accordance with law: the
2 counties of the state; their status with respect to the
3 legality of the sale of intoxicating liquors, wines and beers;
4 the method of selection of county officers; the performance of
5 municipal functions by county officers; the county seats; and
6 the municipalities and special districts of the state, their
7 powers, jurisdiction and government.
8 (c) OFFICERS TO CONTINUE IN OFFICE. Every person
9 holding office when this article becomes effective shall
10 continue in office for the remainder of the term if that
11 office is not abolished. If the office is abolished the
12 incumbent shall be paid adequate compensation, to be fixed by
13 law, for the loss of emoluments for the remainder of the term.
14 (d) ORDINANCES. Local laws relating only to
15 unincorporated areas of a county on the effective date of this
16 article may be amended or repealed by county ordinance.
17 (e) CONSOLIDATION AND HOME RULE. Article VIII,
18 Sections 9, 10, 11 and 24, of the Constitution of 1885, as
19 amended, shall remain in full force and effect as to each
20 county affected, as if this article had not been adopted,
21 until that county shall expressly adopt a charter or home rule
22 plan pursuant to this article. All provisions of the
23 Miami-Dade Metropolitan Dade County Home Rule Charter,
24 heretofore or hereafter adopted by the electors of Miami-Dade
25 Dade County pursuant to Article VIII, Section 11, of the
26 Constitution of 1885, as amended, shall be valid, and any
27 amendments to such charter shall be valid; provided that the
28 said provisions of such charter and the said amendments
29 thereto are authorized under said Article VIII, Section 11, of
30 the Constitution of 1885, as amended. However, notwithstanding
31 any provision of Article VIII, Section 11, of the Constitution
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1 of 1885, as amended, or any limitations under this subsection,
2 the Miami-Dade County Home Rule Charter may be amended or
3 revised by special law approved by the electors of Miami-Dade
4 County and, if approved, shall be deemed an amendment or
5 revision of the charter by the electors of Miami-Dade County.
6 (f) DADE COUNTY; POWERS CONFERRED UPON
7 MUNICIPALITIES. To the extent not inconsistent with the
8 powers of existing municipalities or general law, the
9 Metropolitan Government of Dade County may exercise all the
10 powers conferred now or hereafter by general law upon
11 municipalities.
12 (g) DELETION OF OBSOLETE SCHEDULE ITEMS. The
13 legislature shall have power, by joint resolution, to delete
14 from this article any subsection of this Section 6, including
15 this subsection, when all events to which the subsection to be
16 deleted is or could become applicable have occurred. A
17 legislative determination of fact made as a basis for
18 application of this subsection shall be subject to judicial
19 review.
20 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the following statement be
21 placed on the ballot:
22 CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT
23 ARTICLE VIII, SECTION 6
24 AUTHORIZING AMENDMENTS TO MIAMI-DADE COUNTY HOME
25 RULE CHARTER BY SPECIAL LAW APPROVED BY
26 REFERENDUM.--Proposing an amendment to the State Constitution
27 to authorize amendments or revisions to the Miami-Dade County
28 Home Rule Charter by special law approved by a vote of the
29 electors of Miami-Dade County and to conform references to the
30 county's current name.
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2 And the title is amended as follows:
3 Delete everything before the enacting clause
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6 Senate Joint Resolution No. _____
7 A joint resolution proposing an amendment to
8 Section 6 of Article VIII of the State
9 Constitution to authorize amendments or
10 revisions to the home rule charter of
11 Miami-Dade County by special law approved by a
12 vote of the electors.
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