Florida Senate - 2021                                    SB 1564
       
       
        
       By Senator Gainer
       
       
       
       
       
       2-01747-21                                            20211564__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to the required publication of local
    3         board meeting minutes; amending chapter 9820 (1923),
    4         Laws of Florida; removing a provision requiring the
    5         City of Leesburg City Commission to publish minutes in
    6         a newspaper published in the city; amending chapter
    7         23342 (1945), Laws of Florida; removing a provision
    8         requiring the Holmes County Board of County
    9         Commissioners and the Board of Public Instruction to
   10         publish minutes in a newspaper of general circulation;
   11         repealing chapters 22229 (1943), 22375 (1943), 26296
   12         (1949), 26299 (1949), 27578 (1951), 27967 (1951),
   13         29600 (1953), 30785 (1955), 31354 (1955), 57-2060, 65
   14         1381, 65-1563, 69-1157, 69-1366, 70-780, 71-608, and
   15         78-530, Laws of Florida, relating to the publication
   16         of minutes of a county school board or a board of
   17         county commissioners in a newspaper of general
   18         circulation in Calhoun, Liberty, Wakulla, Washington,
   19         Gulf, Clay, Franklin, Holmes, Okeechobee, Leesburg,
   20         and Dixie Counties; providing an effective date.
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   22  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   24         Section 1. Section 19 of chapter 9820 (1923), Laws of
   25  Florida, is amended to read:
   26         Section 19. It shall be the duty of the City Clerk and
   27  Auditor to keep correct minutes of the proceedings of the City
   28  Commission and enter the same in a suitable book to be kept for
   29  the purpose. He shall also see that the minutes are promptly
   30  printed in some newspaper published in the City. The Mayor
   31  Commissioner and the City Clerk and Auditor shall sign each and
   32  every minute of the Council, when duly recorded in the minute
   33  book. It shall also be the duty of said City Clerk and Auditor
   34  to record all ordinances and resolutions passed by the said City
   35  Commission after the approval of the same by the Mayor in the
   36  proper ordinance book, and see that same are duly promulgated by
   37  publishing same in some newspaper in said city after the
   38  adoption of the same.
   39         Section 2. Section 2 of chapter 23342 (1945), Laws of
   40  Florida, is amended to read:
   41         Section 2. The publications provided by the Act shall be
   42  published in a newspaper of general circulation in Holmes
   43  County, Florida, provided, however, that the cost of publishing
   44  same shall not exceed the amount of Twenty-five Dollars per
   45  month for each and in the event that such publication for any
   46  month should cost more than the amount of Twenty-five Dollars to
   47  publish, then the Board required herein to publish its minutes
   48  shall publish the same for such month by posting a true and
   49  correct certified copy thereof, at the front door of the Court
   50  House of said Holmes County, Florida, and the Clerk of the
   51  Circuit Court and no other county official shall receive any
   52  additional fees for the posting thereof.
   53         Section 3. Chapters 22229 (1943), 22375 (1943), 26296
   54  (1949), 26299 (1949), 27578 (1951), 27967 (1951), 29600 (1953),
   55  30785 (1955), 31354 (1955), 57-2060, 65-1381, 65-1563, 69-1157,
   56  69-1366, 70-780, 71-608, and 78-530, Laws of Florida, are
   57  repealed.
   58         Section 4. This act shall take effect upon becoming a law.