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ORDINANCE NO. 6446-99
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF CLEARWATER, FLORIDA,
RELATING TO COMMUNITY RELATIONS; REPEALING A
PORTION OF SECTION 12.01; AMENDING SECTION 12.03 TO
DELETE CERTAIN DUTIES OF THE DIRECTOR OF HUMAN
RELATIONS; AND REPEALING SECTIONS 12.02, 12.31, 12.32,
12.33, 12.34, 12.35, 12.36, 12.37, 12.38, 12.6'1, 12.62, 12.63, and
12.64, CODE OF ORDINANCES, RELATING TO
DISCRIMINATORY PRACTICES IN HOUSING, EMPLOYMENT,
AND PUBLIC ACCOMMODATIONS, AND ENFORCEMENT BY
THE CITY OF CLEARWATER; PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE
DATE.
WHEREAS, the City of Clearwater and Pinellas County have agreed that certain
functions regarding investigation and enforcement of anti-discrimination laws shall be
transferred from the City to the County, and it is therefore necessary to repeal portions of the
City of Clearwater Code of Ordinances setting forth such violations and providing for
investigation and enforcement; now, therefore,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY
OF CLEARWATER, FLORIDA:
Section 1. Subsections (2) and (3) of Section 12.01, Code of Ordinances, are hereby
repealed, said Section to read as follows:
a Sec. 12.01 Policy and finding.
(1) Basic to good community relations In the city Is the God-given dignity and worth
of humanity. Our heritage has provided the moral, ethical and spiritual foundation upon which
civilization is built. Moral and spiritual values intertwined with secular concerns, can unite the
ability of all citizens to achieve the good life, based on universal justice and full opportunity.
The city commission therefore affirms the necessity of good community relations between all
groups In the city, in order to gain continuous growth in the development of a just, righteous and
compassionate society. The city commission further affirms that in the city, with its population
consisting of people of both sexes, married and unmarried, the physically and mentally impaired
and people of every race, age, color, creed, national origin, and ancestry, as well as people of
differing education, social and economic stations, there is no greater danger to health, morals,
safety and welfare of the city and its inhabitants than the existence of groups prejudiced against
one another and antagonistic to each other because of these differences. The city commission
hereby finds and declares that acts of prejudice, intolerance, discrimination and disorder
occasioned thereby threaten the rights and proper privileges of its inhabitants and menace the
institutions and foundations of a free democratic state. A community relations board Is found
necessary and desirable to encourage and bring about mutual understanding; to assist the
efforts of citizens and groups who are striving to eliminate prejudice, privation, intolerance,
bigotry, discrimination and disorder occasioned thereby; and to give effect to the guarantee of
equal rights for all ensured by the constitution and the laws of Florida and of the United States
of America.
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21(4) The provisions of this chapter shall be liberally construed to preserve the public
safety, health and general welfare and to further the purposes stated in this section.
Section 2. Section12.03, Code of Ordinances, is hereby amended to read as follows:
Sec. 12.03. Director.
The city manager shall employ a director and such other personnel as may be provided
for in the annual operating budget of the city. It shall be the responsibility of the director to
serve as staff aide to the community relations board, to peFfbFm the dillies, assigned -te-the diF86teF by his teF and to perform such other duties of an administrative nature as may be
assigned by the city manager.
Section 3. Sections 12.02, 12.31, 12.32, 12.33, 12.34, 12.35, 12.36, 12.37, 12.38,
12.61, 12.62, 12.63, and 12.64 are hereby repealed in their entirety.
Section 4. This ordinance shall take effect October 1, 1999.
PASSED ON FIRST READING
PASSED ON SECOND AND FINAL
READING AND ADOPTED
September 2, 1999...
September 16, 1999
Brian J. Aun t
Mayor-Commissioner
Approved as to farm:
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Leslie K. Dougall-Side4
Assistant City Attorney
Attest:
Cyb0lb E. Goudeau
City Clerk
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