125.67
Limitation on subject and matter embraced in ordinances; amendments; enacting clause.
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125.67 Limitation on subject and matter embraced in ordinances; amendments; enacting clause.—Every ordinance shall embrace but one subject and matter properly connected therewith, and the subject shall be briefly expressed in the title. No ordinance shall be revised or amended by reference to its title only. Ordinances to revise or amend shall set out in full the revised or amended section, subsection, or paragraph of a subsection. The enacting clause of every ordinance shall read: “Be It Ordained by the Board of County Commissioners of County:”
History.—s. 2, ch. 69-32.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 6
cases, 1977–2003 · leading case: Charter Review Com'n of Orange County v. Scott
Charter Review Com'n of Orange County v. Scott (1994)
“[2] Section 125.67, Florida Statutes (1991), applies the single-subject rule to county ordinances, [3] and section 166.”
CHARTER REVIEW COM'N v. Scott (1993)
“(applying the single subject rule to amendments by initiative to the Florida Constitution); § 125.67, Fla. Stat. (1991) (applying the single subject rule to county ordinances); § 166.”
Miami Heat Ltd. Partnership v. Leahy (1996)
“[5] We note that Abreau even more directly disposes of any argument that the single subject requirement found in section 125.67, Florida Statutes (1995), is applicable.”
State v. Cummings (1980)
“Section 125.67, Florida Statutes (1977), which applies to county ordinances instead of to laws enacted by the state legislature, is identical to article III, section 6.”
Neumont v. Monroe County, Florida (2003)
“041, there is an exact correlation to the language of § 125.67, which prohibits "an ordinance from being enacted by reference to its title only.”
Save Our County Coalition v. Wittenstein (1977)
“Among other reasons the trial court gave for finding the proposed ordinance facially invalid was the failure of the ordinance to comply with Section 125.67, Florida Statutes (1975). In material part that statute provides: “Every ordinance shall embrace but one subject and matter…”
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