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CITY OF TAMARAC, FLORIDA
ORDINANCE NO, 0-91-/�_
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF TAMARAC#
FLORIDA, CREATING SECTIONS 6-37 AND 6-38 OF
THE CITY CODE PROVIDING FOR A SERVICE CHARGE
FOR PROCESSING REQUESTS FOR LIEN INFORMATION
AND PREPARATION; PROVIDING FOR REPEALER=
PROVIDING FOR SEVERABILITY; PROVIDING FOR
INCLUSION IN THE CODE; AND PROVIDING FOR AN
EFFECTIVE DATE.
WHEREAS, the City receives numerous requests from
lawyers, real estate agents and title companies for informa-
tion concerning liens placed by the City on property; and
WHEREAS, the nature of the requests requires extensive
clerical time to research the City's records and to respond
to each request; and
WHEREAS, the City Council wishes to impose a reasonable
charge for this service, which charge will be consistent with
the requirements of the Public Records Law, Section 119.07,
Florida Statutes (1987); and
WHEREAS, the City incurs additional expense preparing
and recording various liens and lien satisfactions; and
WHEREAS, the City Council has determined that the
persons who caused the liens to be recorded, or their succes--
sore, should bear all costs associated with preparing and
recording the liens and lien satisfactions;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE.IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF TAMARAC, FLORIDA;
SECTION 1 s That Section 6-37 of the City Code is
hereby created to provide as follows;
"Sec. 6-37 Requests for _iinformation concernin
outstanding City liens.
Whenever the Cityreceives a„ request for an accounting
of the amounts of any outstanding City liens a minimum
service fee of $25.00 per request shall be charged to
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the person making the request. Additional charges at
the rate of $25.00 per hour shall be charged if the
request requires more than one (1) hour of clerical
time."
SECTION 2 z That Section 6-38 of the City Code is
hereby created to provide as follows:
"Sec. 6-38 Char es for prt2aring and recordina liens
and lien satisfactions.
The followin2 char es are i osed in connection with
liens and lien satisfactions:
Lien Rreparation and recording $55.00
Lien satisfaction/preparation $45.00
(Recording by City)_
(Recording by partyother than City) $10.000
SECTION 3 : Repealer That all ordinances or parts of
ordinances, all City Code sections or parts of City Code
sections, and all resolutions or parts of resolutions in
conflict with this Ordinance are hereby repealed to the
extent of such conflict.
SECTION 4 : Severabi_lity . Should any provision of
this Ordinance be declared by a court of competent jurisdic-
tion to be invalid, the same shall not affect the validity of
the ordinance as a whole, or any part thereof, other than the
part declared to be invalid.
SECTION 5 : Inclusion in the Code . It is the inten-
tion of the City Council, and it is hereby ordained that the
provisions of this Ordinance shall become and be made a part
of the Code of the City of Tamarac, Florida.
SECTION 6 : Effective Date : That this Ordinance shall
become effective immediately upon its passage.
PASSED FIRST READING this day of 1991.
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PASSED SECOND READING this aL�day Of 1991.
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MAYOR
ATTEST:
CAROL A. EVANS
CITY CLERK
RECORD OF CCUIX VOTE
MAYOR
ABRAMOWITZ
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C/M KATZ
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DISTRICT 3:
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