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/ ORDINANCE 92- 37
AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE OF INDIAN RIVER
COUNTY,—FLORIDA AAMENDING-0I-D-FIANCE—H-23
WHICH ADOPTED A REVISED OCCUPATIONAL
LICENSE FEE FOR CERTAIN REAL ESTATE
PROFESSIONALS,
WHEREAS, Ordinance 92-23 imposed ' a license tax on "Real Estate
; and
WHEREAS, County staff has been directed to review in depth the
entire occupational license fee requirements; and
WHEREAS, the imposition of this tax on this new category of
persons prior to the study is not considered in the public interest and
is premature; and
WHEREAS, the effective date of said change to add real estate
agents is October 1, 1992; and
WHEREAS, it is necessary to delete this category immediately and
without normal pub hcnotice under the emergency prodision of Sion
125.66, F.S., to allow for the study of all license fees.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF COUNTY
COMMISSIONERS OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY, that:
SECTION 1: EMERGENCY
There is currently under study an in depth review of occupational
license fees. The imposition of a license tax on a new category of
persons prior to this study is not in the public interest and is
Relief from this hardship may best be accomplished by the
immediate enactment of an emergency ordinance deleting the recently
added category of real estate agents.
SECTION 2. AMENDMENT.
Section 207.40(5) is amended by the deletion of the category
"Real Estate Agents".
SECTION 3. ADMINISTRATION.
Any license tax previously paid under Ordinance 92-23 by "Real
Estate Agents" is to be refunded.
,SECTION 4.SEVERABILITY.
If any section, or any sentence, paragraph, phrase, or word of
this ordinance is for any reason held to be unconstitutional,
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inoperative, or void, such holding 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,
invaff- or id oopeative part.
SECTION 5. EFFECTIVE DATE.
This ordinance shall become effective upon becoming law.
Approved and adopted by the Board of County Commissioners of
Indian_ River�__County,_Florida,on this 22 day of September, 1992.*
This emergency ordinance was not advertised in the Vero Beach
Press -Journal for a public hearing which was held on the 22nd day of
September, 1992, at which time it was moved for adoption by
Commissioner Scurlock, seconded by Commissioner Bird, and adopted by
the following vote:
Chairman Carolyn K. Eggert
Absent
Vice Chairman Margaret C. Bowman
Aye
Commissioner Don C. Scurlock, Jr.
Aye
Commissioner: Richard N. Bird
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''Commissioner John W. Tippin Aye
„.BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
INDIAN RIVER COUNTY, FLORIDA
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* Pursuant to the rules of passing an emergency ordinance this
ordinance became effective at 5:00 p.m. on September 22, 1992 when
it was sent by certified mail to Tallahassee, Florida.
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