BOYNTON.PRE PREFACE
This Code constitutes a complete recodification included in the same manner. If the new material is to
of the ordinances of the City of a general and be included between Chapters 12 and 13 it will be
permanent nature. As expressed in the Adopting designated as Chapt er 12.1. Care should be taken that
Ordinance, the Code supersedes all such ordinances the alphabetical arrangement of chapters is
not included herein or reco gnized as continuing in maintained when including new chapters. New
force by reference thereto. articles and new divisions may be included in the
same way or, in the case of articles, may be placed at
Source materials used in the preparation of the the end of the chapter embra cing the subject, and, in
Code were the 1958 Boynton Beach Code as the case of divisions, may be placed at the end of the
supplemented through January 3, 1978, and article embracing the subject, the next successive
ordinances subsequently adopted by the governing number being assigned to the article or division.
body. The source of ea ch section is included in the
history note appearing in parentheses at the end Index
thereof. The absence of such a note indicates that the
section is new and was adopted for the first time with The index has been prepared with the greatest of
the adoption of the Code. By use of the Comparative care. Each item has been placed under several
Tables appearin g in the back of the volume, the headings, some of the headings being couched in lay
reader can locate any section of the 1958 Code and phraseology, others in legal terminology and still
any subsequent ordinance included herein. others in language generally used by municipal
officials and employees. There are numerous cross
The chapters of the Code are arranged in references within the ind ex itself which stand as
alphabetical order and the sections within each guideposts to direct the user to the particular item in
chapter catchlined to facilitate usage. Footnotes which he is interested.
which tie related sections of the Code together and
which refer to relevant provisions of the state law Looseleaf Supplements
have been included. A table listing the state law
citations setting forth their location within the Code A special feature of this Code is the looseleaf
volume is included at the back of th is volume. system of binding and supplemental service, by which
the Code will be kept up - to - date periodically. Upon
Numbering System the final passage of amendatory ordinances, they will
be properly edited and the page or pages affected will
The numbering system used in this Code is the be reprinted. These new pages will be distributed to
same system used in many state and local holders of copies of the Code, with instructions for
government codes. Each section number consists of the manner of inserting the new pages and deleting
two parts separated by a dash, the figure before the the obsolete pages. Each such amendment, when
dash representing the chapter numb er and the figure incorporated into the Code, may be cited as a part
after the dash indicating the position of the section thereof, as provided in section 5 of the Adopting
within the chapter. Thus, the first section of Chapter Ordinance.
1 is numbered 1 - 1 and the sixth section of Chapter 7
is 7 - 6. Under this system, each section is identified The successful maintenance of this Code up - to -
with its chapter, and, at the same time, new sections date at all times will depend largely upon the holder
or even whole chapters can be inserted in their proper of the volume. As revised sheets are received it will
places, simply by using the decimal system for become the responsibility of the holder to have the
amendments. By way of illustration: If new material amendments inserted according to the attached
consisting of three sections that would logically come instructions. It is recommended that all such
between section s 5 - 4 and 5 - 5 is desired to be added, amendments be in serted immediately upon receipt to
such new sections would be numbered 5 - 4.1, 5 - 4.2 avoid misplacing them and, in addition, that all
and 5 - 4.3 respectively. New chapters may be
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deleted pages be saved and filed for historical
reference purposes.
Acknowledgments
The publication of this Code was under the
direct sup ervision of George R. Langford, President,
and C. Julian Manson of the editorial staff, of the
Municipal Code Corporation, Tallahassee, Florida.
Credit is gratefully given to the other members of the
publisher's staff for their interest and assistance
thro ughout the project.
The publishers are most grateful to the City
Attorney, Mr. James W. Vance, his associate, Mr.
James R. Wolfe, the City Clerk, Mrs. Tereesa
Padgett, and numerous other city officials for their
supervision, cooperation and assistance du ring the
progress of the work on this Code.
March, 1981
MUNICIPAL CODE
CORPORATION
Tallahassee, Florida