Res 03-70 RESOLUTION NO. 3-70.
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF DELRAY BEACH, FLORIDA, REQUESTING
THE LEGISLATIVE DELEGATION OF PALM BEACH
COUNTY, FLORIDA, TO PRESENT CERTAIN BILLS
BEFORE THE 1970 SESSION OF THE FLORIDA
LEGISLATURE AF~NDING THE CHARTER OF THE
CITY OF DELRAY BEACH, FLORIDA.
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
DELRAY BEACH, FLORIDA, that its City Attorney, G. Robert Fellows,
be, and he is hereby authorized to prepare in compliance with the
Charter of the City of Delray Beach, and forward to the Palm Beach
County Legislative Delegation for submission to the 1970 Florida
Legislature for enactment, Special Acts constituting Charter A-
mendments to the existing Charter of the City of Delray Beach,
Florida, pertaining to the following subject matters:
(a) Sec. 12. "Council form of government--Term of
office; number" be amended to include the appointment of a city
prosecutor.
(b) Sec. 13. "Officers and departments enumerated--
Powers of council to create and change" be amended by adding the
city prosecutor thereto.
(c) That a new section be added to the charter to
establish:
Apgointment, qualifications, duties and
compensation of the city prosecutor.
(d) Sec. 59° "Duties" of the city attorney be amended
to include rendering legal opinions to the city manager and de-
leting duties in conflict with the city prosecutor.
(e) Sec. 65. "Appointment--Duties" of the city clerk
be amended to include the appointment of deguty and assistant
clerks.
(f) Sec. 73. "Same--Adoption of; levy of taxes" be
amended by recording the millage limitation from 20 mills to
limits as provided by state law.
(g) Sec. 125. "Authority of city to issue" bonds be
amended by rewording the interest rate from six and one-half per-
cent to the rate as provided in state law.
(h) Sec. 127. "Approval by vote of freeholders pre-
requisite to issuance" be amended by rewording to conform with
the provisions of State law.
(i) Sec. 138o "Interest, financing period and sale
of bonds" be amended by rewording the interest rate from six and
one-half percent to the rate as provided in state law.
(j) Sec. 147. "Registration; oath; false swearing;
information necessary; issuance of registration card; form';
change in status" be amended by deleting the requirement to
register as a freeholder°
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(k) Sec. 155. "Polls, when open--Canvass of returns;
certificate~of iel~ction" be amended by changing the hours in which
the.polls shall~'be open~from-'sun~ise to sunset to 7:00 o'clock Ao
M. to 7:00 o'clock P.M.
(1) Sec. 185. "Annexation of new territory; procedure;
objection thereto" be repealed.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the City Attorney be au-
thorized to take any and all necessary steps to prepare the neces-
sary bills and to aid the Legislative Delegation in the introduc-
tion and passage of the above legislation.
PASSED AND ADOPTED this 12th day of Janua~I, 1970.
CITY OF DELRAY BEACH, FLORIDA
VMAYOR
ATTEST:
City