HomeMy WebLinkAbout1983-45ORDINANCE NO. 83- 45
AN ORDINANCE OF THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY, FLORIDA, PROHIBITING THE
SALVAGING OF ITEMS FROM INDIAN RIVER,COUNTY TRANSFER
STATIONS AND REQUIRING THE POSTING OF NO SALVAGING
SIGNS, PROVIDING FOR PENALTIES; INCORPORATION IN CODE;
SEVERABILITY; AND EFFECTIVE DATE.
WHEREAS, the Board of County Commissioners of Indian
River County has recently been put on notice of certain salvaging
activities being conducted by members of the general public at the
County's various transfer stations, and
WHEREAS, it has been determined that such salvaging
activities constitute a hazard to those salvaging as well as to
the members of the general public using the transfer stations for
the purposes they were intended.
NOW, THEREFORE B2 IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF COUNTY
COMMISSIONERS OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY, FLORIDA that:
NO SALVAGING
It shall be illegal and subject to the punishment as
provided herein for any person or business entity to salvage
materials from any of the County owned and operated transfer
stations. For the purposes of this ordinance "salvaging" shall
mean the removal of any item from, or sorting through items in a
transfer station site after they have been deposited for
collection and disposal.
SECTION 2
PENALTIES
Any violation of the provisions of this ordinance shall
be subject to punishment by a fine not to exceed FIVE HUNDRED
DOLLARS ($500.00), or by imprisonment in County jail, not to
exceed sixty (60) days, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
Each day a violation continues after the violator has been
notified to cease the violation by an agent of the Board of County
Commissioners shall constitute a separate offense.
INCORPORATION IN CODE
The provisions of this Ordinance shall be incorporated
into the County Code and the word "ordinance" may be changed to
-1-
"section", "article", or other appropriate word, and the sections
of this ordinance may be renumbered or relettered to accomplish
such intentions.
L. T/.TTl A
SEVERABILITY
If any section, part of a sentence, paragraph, phrase
or word of this Ordinance is for any reason held to be unconstitu-
tional, inoperative or void, such holdings shall not affect the
remaining portions of this Ordinance; and it shall be construed to
have been -the legislative intent to pass the ordinance without
such unconstitutional, invalid or inoperative part.
SECTION 5
EFFECTIVE DATE
The provisions of this ordinance shall become effective
upon receipt from the Florida secretary of state of official
acknowledgment that this ordinance has been filed with the
Department of State.
Approved and adopted by the Board of County
Commissioners of Indian River County, Florida on this 7th day of
December
1983.
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
OF INDIA RIVER COUNTY
By
�K
R -CHARD N. BIRD
Chairman
Acknowledgment by the Department of State of the State of Florida
this 12th day of December , 1983.
Effective Date: Acknowledgment from the Department of State
received on this 19th day of December , 1983, at 11:00
A.M./P.M. and filed in the Office of the Clerk of the Board of
County Commissioners of Indian River County, Florida.
APPROVED T� FORM,
LEGAL E I�i�E[yGY.
i ,
By i
/G1{R M. BRANDENBURG, County Attorney
(/
i
-2-