99-05 ORDINANCE NO. 99-05
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF AVENTURA, FLORIDA,
AMENDING CITY CODE CHAPTER 2, ADMINISTRATION,
ARTICLE VI, LOBBYING ACTIVITIES, BY AMENDING IN
SECTION 2-371(2) THE DEFINITION OF LOBBYIST;
PROVIDING FOR SEVERABILITY, INCLUSION IN THE
CODE AND AN EFFECTIVE DATE
NOW THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COMMISSION OF THE
CITY OF AVENTURA, FLORIDA, AS FOLLOWS:~
Section 1. Chapter 2, Administration, Article VI, Lobbying Activities, Section 2-
371, Definitions, of the City Code of the City of Aventura is hereby amended to read as
follows:
Sec. 2-371. Definitions.
Lobbyist.
(2) Lobbyist does not mean:
b. Any pPerson, or its full-time employee, officer or owner,
who appears before the City Commission, a City Board or
committee, or the City Manager or staff in an individual capacity for
the purpose of self-representation or for the representation of
others without compensation or reimbursement to express support
of or in opposition to any ordinance, resolution, decision or action
of the City Commission, or any resolution, action, recommendation
or decision of any City Board, agency or committee, or any action,
decision or recommendation of the City Manager.
Section 2. Severability. The provisions of this Ordinance are declared to be
severable and if any section, sentence, clause or phrase of this Ordinance shall for any
reason be held to be invalid or unconstitutional, such decision shall not affect the
validity of the remaining sections, sentences, clauses, and phrases of this Ordinance
~ Underlined text has been added; ~.-...c~*.h:o'.:'gh text has been deleted from existing language.
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but they shall remain in effect, it being the legislative intent that this Ordinance shall
stand notwithstanding the invalidity of any par[.
Section 3. Inclusion in the Code. It is the intention of the City Council, and it is
hereby ordained that the provisions of this Ordinance shall become and made a part of the
Code of the City of Aventura; that the sections of this Ordinance may be re-numbered or re-
lettered to accomplish such intentions; and that the word "Ordinance" shall be changed to
"Section" or other appropriate word.
Section 4. Effective Date. This Ordinance shall be effective immediately
upon adoption on second reading.
The foregoing Ordinance was offered by Commissioner Perlow, who moved its
adoption on first reading. This motion was seconded by Commissioner Rogers-Libert
and upon being put to a vote, the vote was as follows:
Commissioner Arthur Berger yes
Commissioner Jay R. Beskin yes
Commissioner Ken Cohen yes
Commissioner Jeffrey M. Perlow yes
Commissioner Patricia-Rogers Liber[ yes
Vice Mayor Harry Holzberg yes
Mayor Arthur I. Snyder yes
The foregoing Ordinance was offered by Vice Mayor Rogers-Libert, who moved
its adoption on second reading. This motion was seconded by Commissioner Beskin,
and upon being put to a vote, the vote was as follows:
Commissioner Arthur Berger yes
Commissioner Jay R. Beskin yes
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Commissioner Ken Cohen :yes
Commissioner Harry Holzberg
Commissioner Jeffrey M. Perlow yes
Commissioner Patricia-Rogers Libert yes
Mayor Arthur I. Snyder yes
PASSED AND ADOPTED on first reading this 2"d day of March, 1999.
PASSED AND ADOPTED on second readi%~~ril,~99.
/~7~UR I. SNY~ER,/MAYOR
ATTEST: ,/
TERESA M. SMITH, CMC
CITY CLERK
APPROVED AS TO LEGAL SUFFICIENCY:
CITY~TT~RNEY
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