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10/12/21, 12:15 PM Indian River County, FL Code of Ordinances Regulation and the Departmentof Health and Rehabilitative Services, pertaining to environmental control or violation of a Hearing Board Order. (9) "Rule" means the whole or a pat of the Board's statement of general or particula3pplicability and future effect designed to implement, interpret, or prescribe lavor policy or describing the organization, procedure, or practice requirements of theBoard. Section 4. Indian River County Environmental Control Board; Organization. (1) The Board is established pursuant to this act and shall consist of the five memberaf the Board of County Commissioners of Indian River County who shall serve withoutompensation. (2) The presence of three members of the Board shall constitute a quorum necessary tbold a meeting and take any action. A majority vote of the membership shall be necessarjro take any action. The members of the Board shall annually elect a chairman who shalterve at the will of the Board. The chairman may call meetings of the Board, and meetingsmay be called by written notice signed by three members, and the Board at any meetingmay fix and call a meeting on a future date. Minutes shall be kept of all meetings of the Board. All meetings shall be public. Section 5. Environmental Control Board; Duties and Powers. The Board shall have thfDllowing duties, functions, powers, and responsibilities. (1) The Board shall adopt, revise, and amend from time to time appropriate rules necessarfpr the implementation and effective enforcement, administration, and interpretatioof the provisions of this act, and shall provide for the effective and continuingontrol and regulation of the environment in the county within the framework of thisact. When approved by the Board and filed with the Clerk of the Board of County Commissioners,and adopted as per the following, such rules shall have the force and effect of law: (a) Prior to the adoption, amendment, or repeal of any such rule, the Board shall givpublic notice of its intended action, setting forth a short and plain explanatiorof the purpose and effect of the proposed rule, and a summary of the proposed ruleand shall cite this act as specific legal authority under which its adoption is authorized.The notice shall contain the location where the text of the proposed rule can be obtainedif such text is not included in the notice. The notice shall be mailed to persons who have made requests o- the Board for advance notice of its proceedings at Iea51t4 days prior to such mailing. Notice shall be given by publication at least oncel 5 days in advance, in a newspaper of general circulation in the County. (b) Any person regulated by the Board or having a substantial interest in a Board rulfnay petition the Board to adopt, amend, or repeal or rule. The petition shall specifyhe proposed rule and action requested. Not later than 30 calendar days after thaiate of filing a petition, the Board shall initiate rulemaking proceedings under thisact, otherwise comply with the requested action, or deny the petition with a writtenstatement of its reasons for the denial. In addition, the Board shall require from those proposing a rule or change an estimate of the economic impact of the proposed.ile on all persons affected by it. (c) The Board shall keep a complete record of all rulemaking proceedings. In such proceedingtbe Board may take notice of any material which may be judicially noticed, withodUrther proof thereof, and it shall provide that materials so recognized and any evidencpresented shall be incorporated 112 2/7