§ 2-81. Definitions.

The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this division, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning:

Emergency ordinance means an official legislative action of a governing body, which action is a regulation of a general and permanent nature and enforceable as a local law. Such ordinance addresses an emergency defined as an unforeseen occurrence or condition calling for immediate action, an exigency, a crisis, or a time of difficulty or danger. The purpose of such ordinance is to enable the town commission to provide immediate action in order to prevent or remedy a condition or situation which is of such a nature that it demands its attention, when to postpone such action would result in serious injury or damage to the people, the government, or the town.

Ordinance means an official legislative action of a governing body, which action is a regulation of a general and permanent nature and enforceable as a local law.

Resolution means an expression of a governing body concerning matters of administration, an expression of a temporary character, or a provision for the disposition of a particular item of the administrative business of the governing body.

State law reference

Definitions for adoption procedures, F.S. § 166.041(1).

Editor's note

The definition for emergency ordinance is provided pursuant to Lifschitz v. City of Miami Beach, 339 So. 2d 232 (3d DCA 1976), and McCall v. State, 23 So. 2d 492 (Fla. 1945).

Cross reference

Definitions generally, § 1-2.