Code of Ordinances Supplement 82SUPPLEMENT NO. 82
January 2023
CODE OF ORDINANCES
Village of
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Art. III. Reserved . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 511
9. Country Club . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . 559
Art. I. In General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 561
Art. II. Golf Advisory Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 562
Art. III. Finances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 563
10. Elections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . 615
Art. I. In General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 617
Art. II. Reserved . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 618
Art. III. Reserved . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 618
Art. IV. Polling Locations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 618
11. Electricity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . 671
Art. I. In General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 673
Art. II. Electrical Code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 673
11.5. Emergency Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . 695
Art. I. In General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 697
Art. II. Emergency Medical Services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 697
12. Fire Prevention and Protection. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . 723
Art. I. In General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 725
Art. II. Florida Fire Prevention Code. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 725
Art. III. Reserved . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 726
Art. IV. Recovery of Costs for Cleanup, Abatement and
Removal of Hazardous Substances. . . . . . . . . . . 726
12.5. Flood Damage Prevention. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . 777
Art. I. Administration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 779
Art. II. Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .789
Art. III. Flood Resistant Development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 794
13. Reserved . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . 839
14. Health and Sanitation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . 889
Art. I. In General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 891
Art. II. Garbage, Trash and Refuse. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 891
Div. 1. Generally . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 891
Div. 2. Garbage Collection and Disposal . . . . . . . . . 891
Div. 3. Reserved. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 893
Art. III. Reserved . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 893
Art. IV. Abatement of Public Nuisances on Private
Property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 894
Art. V. Chronic Nuisance Property Code . . . . . . . . . . . . . 895
15. Housing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . 945
Art. I. Property Maintenance Standards. . . . . . . . . . . . . 947
Art. II. Abandoned Real Property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 951
Art. III. Minimum Housing Standards. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 953
16. Library. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . 997
Art. I. In General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 999
Art. II. Library Advisory Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 999
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17. Licenses and Miscellaneous Business Regulations. . . . .. . . 1051
Art. I. In General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1053
Art. II. Local Business Tax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1057
Art. III. Businesses Located Outside Village Limits . . 1060.4
Art. IV. Simulated Gambling Devices. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1063
Art. V. Ambulances. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1065
Art. VI. Garage and Other Sales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1066
Art. VII. Business Advisory Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1066
Art. VIII. Peddlers and Solicitors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1067
17.5 Reserved . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . 1121
18. Motor Vehicles and Traffic. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . 1171
Art. I. In General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1173
Art. II. Operation of Vehicles Generally . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1173
Art. III. Stopping, Standing and Parking . . . . . . . . . . . . 1174
Art. IV. Golf Carts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1182
19. Offenses and Miscellaneous Provisions . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . 1225
Art. I. In General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1227
Art. II. Sexual Offenders and Sexual Predators . . . . . . 1230
Art. III. Offenses Against Property. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1230.1
Art. IV. Offenses Against Public Morals . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1230.1
Art. V. Offenses Against Public Peace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1231
Art. VI. Noise Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1231
Art. VII. Reserved. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1234
Art. VIII. Weapons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1234
Art. IX. Mandatory Year-Round Landscape Irrigation
Conservation Measures. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1237
Art. X. Alarms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1238
Art. XI. Wellfield Protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1242
20. Parks, Playgrounds and Recreation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . 1289
Art. I. In General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1291
Art. II. Meetings and Gatherings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1292
Div. 1. Generally . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1292
Div. 2. Permit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1293
Art. III. Recreation Advisory Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1294
21. Planning and Development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . 1343
Art. I. In General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1345
Art. II. Planning Commission. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1347
Art. III. Board of Adjustment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1348
Art. IV. Concurrency Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1350
Art. V. Stormwater Management. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1363
Art. VI. Archaeological Site Protection Regulations. . . 1366.1
22. Reserved . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . 1411
23. Police. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . 1463
Art. I. In General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1465
Art. II. Reserved . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1465
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Art. III. Reserve Force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1465
24. Streets, Sidewalks and Public Places . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . 1517
Art. I. In General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1519
Art. II. Work Performed Within Rights-of-Way . . . . . . . 1519
Art. III. Sidewalks and Driveways . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1520.3
Div. 1. Generally . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1520.3
Div. 2. Permits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1523
Art. IV. Environmental Committee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1523
25. Swimming Pools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . 1573
Art. I. In General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1575
Art. II. Reserved . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1575
Art. III. Reserved . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1576
26. Taxation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . 1627
Art. I. In General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1629
Art. II. Insurance Excise Taxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1629
Art. III. Utility Tax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1629
Art. IV. Telecommunications Service Tax . . . . . . . . . . . . 1630
27. Trees and Shrubbery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . 1681
Art. I. In General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1683
Art. II. Trees in Swale Areas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1683
Art. III. Reserved . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1684
Art. IV. Fertilizer-Friendly Use Ordinance . . . . . . . . . . . 1685
28. Use of Rights-of-Way for Utilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . 1739
29. Communications Services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . 1781
30. Stormwater Management Utility. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . 1821
Appendices
A. Appearance Plan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . 2043
B. Subdivisions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . 2353
Art. I. In General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2355
Art. II. Procedures for Subdivision Plat Approval . . . . 2358
Art. III. Design Standards. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2365
Art. IV. Required Improvements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2369
Art. V. Enforcement Provisions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2372
Art. VI. Amendments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2378
Art. VII. Legal Status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2379
C. Zoning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . 2479
Art. I. In General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2481
Art. II. Generally . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2489
Art. III. District Regulations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2501
Arts. IV, V. Reserved . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2634.3
Art. VI. Rezonings; Variances; Waivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2634.3
Art. VII. Nonconforming Uses of Land and Structures 2633
Art. VIII. Landscaping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2636
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D. Franchises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . 2701
Statutory Reference Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . 2819
Code Comparative Table—1970 Code. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . 2869
Code Comparative Table—Laws of Florida. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . 2873
Code Comparative Table—Ordinances. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . 2875
Charter Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . 2933
Code Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . 2935
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2543, 2544 75
2545, 2546 75
2547, 2548 75
2549, 2550 75
2551, 2552 75
2553, 2554 75
2555, 2556 75
2557, 2558 77
2559, 2560 75
2561, 2562 75
2563, 2564 75
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2577, 2578 75
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2581, 2582 75
2583, 2584 75
2585, 2586 75
2587, 2588 75
2589, 2590 75
2591, 2592 75
2593, 2594 75
2595, 2596 75
2597, 2598 75
2599, 2600 75
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2603, 2604 75
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2607, 2608 78
2609, 2610 78
2611, 2612 79
2612.1 79
2613, 2614 75
2615, 2616 75
2617, 2618 75
2619, 2620 75
2621, 2622 75
2623, 2624 75
2625, 2626 75
2627, 2628 75
2629, 2630 75
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2935, 2936 71, Add.
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Ord. No.
Date
Adopted
Included/
Omitted Supp. No.
2021-06 4-22-21 Included 77
2021-07 6-10-21 Included 78
2021-08 7- 8-21 Omitted 78
2021-09 7- 8-21 Included 78
2021-13 9- 8-21 Included 78
2021-14 9- 8-21 Included 78
2021-15 9- 8-21 Included 78
2021-16 9-23-21 Omitted 78
2021-17 9-23-21 Omitted 78
2021-18 9-23-21 Included 78
2021-10 10-28-21 Omitted 79
2021-19 11-18-21 Included 79
2021-20 11-18-21 Included 79
2022-01 1-13-22 Included 79
2022-02 1-13-22 Included 79
2022-03 1-27-22 Included 80
2022-04 3-10-22 Omitted 80
2022-05 4-14-22 Included 80
2022-06 4-14-22 Included 80
2022-07 4-14-22 Included 80
2022-08 4-28-22 Omitted 80
2022-09 4-28-22 Included 80
2022-10 5-12-22 Included 80
2022-11 5-26-22 Included 81
2022-12 7-14-22 Included 81
2022-13 7-14-22 Included 81
2022-14 9- 8-22 Included 82
2022-15 9-22-22 Omitted 82
2022-16 9-22-22 Omitted 82
2022-17 9-22-22 Included 82
2022-18 10-27-22 Included 82
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in installments, no later than the
sixtieth day after the last distribu-
tion was made.
b. The amount rolled over to the Plan
does not include any amounts
contributed by the member to the
other plan on a post-tax basis.
c. The rollover is made in cash.
d. The Member certifies that the
distribution is eligible for a rollover.
e. Amounts which the Board accepts
as a rollover to this Fund shall,
along with any earnings allocated
to the Board, be fully vested at all
times.
(2) In addition, the Fund may accept the
direct transfer of a Member's benefits
from another qualified retirement plan
or Internal Revenue Code section 457
plan for purposes of purchasing service.
(d) [Mandatory distributions.] In the event of
a mandatory distribution greater than one
thousand dollars ($1,000.00) under this Plan, if
the participant does not elect to have such
distribution paid directly to an eligible retire-
ment plan specified by the participant in a direct
rollover or to receive such distribution directly,
then the Board will pay the distribution in a
direct rollover to an individual retirement plan
designated by the Board. This section is effective
for mandatory distributions after October 1,
2006.
(Ord. No. 13-95, § 1, 3-23-95; Ord. No. 2010-07,
§ 14, 5-27-10)
Sec. 2-158. Cost of living adjustment.
The amount of pension benefit will be increased
in accordance with the changes in the consumer
price index for urban wage earners (CPI-W)
South, published by the U.S. Bureau of Labor
Statistics. Adjustments of pension payments will
be made on October 1 of each year reflecting the
change in the consumer price index over the
twelve-month period ending April 1 of that year.
The maximum increase in the member's pension
benefit for any one (1) year is three (3) percent.
Such adjustments shall apply to each retire-
ment, survivor or disability benefit in pay status
as of each October 1.
This provision is mandatory for all employees
hired after the May 11, 2000 and such employees
shall contribute two (2) percent of their salary
for this benefit. The cost of living adjustment
and contribution of salary as specified in this
section shall be optional with all employees who
were hired prior to May 11, 2000.
The cost of living adjustment (COLA) set forth
herein shall apply to all forms of benefits set
forth in sections 2-148 and 2-149 of this Code.
(Ord. No. 13-2000, § 1, 5-11-00;Ord. No. 25-2005,
§ 3, 9-8-05; Ord. No. 27-2005, § 3, 9-29-05; Ord.
No. 2010-07, § 16, 5-27-10)
Editor’s note—Ord. No. 2010-07, §§ 15, 16, adopted May
27, 2010, repealed former § 2-158 in its entirety and
renumbered former § 2-158.1 as section 2-158. Repealed
former § 2-158 pertained to optional benefit plan and derived
from Ord. No. 12-96, § 2, adopted March 28, 1996; Ord. No.
28-96, § 1, adopted July 25, 1996; Ord. No. 35-2003, §§ 2, 3,
adopted Dec. 11, 2003; Ord. No. 16-2004, § 2, adopted July
22, 2004.
DIVISION 4. PENSION AND CERTAIN
OTHER BENEFITS FOR FIRE AND POLICE
EMPLOYEES*
Sec. 2-159. Creation of trust and defini-
tions.
(a)Creation of trust.A pension and retire-
ment system for full-time firefighters and police
officers of the village is hereby established to
provide retirement, survivor and disability
benefits as provided by this division. The system
shall be known as the Village of North Palm
Beach Fire and Police Retirement Fund and is
intended to be a tax qualified plan under Internal
Revenue Code Section 401(a) and meet the
requirements of a governmental plan as defined
in Internal Revenue Code Section 414(d).
*Editor’s note—Ordinance No. 9-82, enacted June 10,
1982, did not expressly amend the Code; hence, codification
of §§ 1—11 as herein set out in §§ 2-159—2-169 was at the
discretion of the editor.
Cross references—Fire division, § 12-29 et seq.; police,
Ch. 23.
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(b)Definitions.As used herein, unless
otherwise defined or required by the context, the
following words and phrases shall have the
meaning indicated:
Accrued benefit means the portion of a member's
normal retirement benefit which is considered to
have accrued as of any date, as follows:
(1) A member's accrued benefit for years of
credited service earned before October 1,
2018 shall be equal to the sum of two and
one-half percent of the member's average
monthly earnings multiplied by the
member's credited service for the first
twenty-four (24) years; zero (0) percent of
the member's average monthly earnings
multiplied by the member's credited
service for each year after twenty-four
(24) years up to thirty (30) years; and two
(2) percent of the member's average
monthly earnings multiplied by the
member's credited service for each year
in excess of thirty (30) years.
(2) A member's accrued benefit for years of
credited service earned on and after
October 1, 2018 (provided the member
was employed by the village on or after
July 11, 2019) shall be equal to two and
three-fourths percent per year of service.
For police officers and firefighters who
retire prior to October 1, 2022, the total
accrued benefit shall not be greater than
seventy-five (75) percent of average
monthly earnings at the time of retire-
ment (including entry into the DROP),
but in all cases the accrued benefit earned
on and after October 1, 2018 shall be at
least two and three-fourths (2
3/4) percent
per year of service on and after October
1, 2018. For firefighters and police officers
who retire on and after October 1, 2022,
the total accrued benefit shall not be
greater than eighty (80) percent of aver-
age monthly earnings at the time of
retirement (including entry into the
DROP), but in all cases the accrued
benefit earned on and after October 1,
2018 shall be at least two and three-
fourths (2
3/4) percent per year of service
on and after October 1, 2018.
(3) For purposes of this calculation, average
monthly earnings and credited service as
of the date of determination shall be
used. The accrued benefit is considered
to be payable in the plan's normal form
commencing on the member's normal
retirement date, with such date
determined as through the member
remains in full-time employment with
the employer.
Accumulated contributions means a member's
own contributions plus interest credited thereto,
if any, by the board.
Actuarial equivalence or actuarially equivalent
means that any benefit payable under the terms
of this plan in a form other than the normal form
of benefit shall have the same actuarial present
value on the date payment commences as the
normal form of benefit. For purposes of establish-
ing the actuarial present value of any form of
payment, all future payments shall be discounted
for interest and mortality by using seven (7)
percent interest and the 1983 Group Annuity
Mortality Table for Males, with ages set ahead
five (5) years in the case of disability retirees.
Average monthly earnings means one-sixtieth
of earnings of a member during the five (5) years
of his employment within the last ten (10) years
of employment, which is greater than the total
during any other five (5) years during the ten-
year period; provided that if a member shall
have been employed for fewer than five (5) years,
such average shall be taken over the period of his
actual employment.
Beneficiary means the person or persons
entitled to receive benefits hereunder at the
death of a member who has or have been
designated in writing by the member and filed
with the board. If no such designation is in effect
at the time of death of the member, or if no
person so designated is living at that time, the
beneficiary shall be the estate of the member.
Board means the board of trustees which shall
administer and manage the plan herein provided
and serve as trustee of the fund.
Credited service means the total number of
years and fractional parts of years of service
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expressed as years and completed months, during
which a person serves as an employee as defined
below, omitting intervening years and fractional
parts of years, when such person may not be
employed by the employer; provided, however,
such person may have, without interrupting his
other years of credited service, up to one (1)
year's leave of absence.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, no employee
will receive credit for years or fractional parts of
years of service for which he has withdrawn his
contributions to the pension fund for those years
or fractional parts of years of service unless he
repays into the pension fund the contributions
he has withdrawn, with interest, within ninety
(90) days after his reemployment, as provided in
section 2-160 below.
Further, an employee may voluntarily leave
his contributions in the pension fund for a period
of five (5) years after leaving the employ of the
employer, pending the possibility of his being
rehired, without losing credit for the time he has
participated actively as an employee. Should he
not be re-employed within five (5) years, his
contributions shall be returned to him without
interest.
It is provided further that credited service
shall include any service, voluntary or involuntary,
in the armed forces of the United States, provided
the employee is legally entitled to re-employ-
ment under the provisions of the federal USERRA
provisions or any similar law; and provided
further that the employee shall apply for
reemployment within the time and under the
conditions prescribed by law. Effective January
1, 2007, members who die or become disabled
while serving on active duty military service
which intervenes the member's employment shall
be entitled to the rights of this section even
though such member was not re-employed by the
village. Members who die or become disabled
while on active duty military service shall be
treated as though re-employed the day before the
member became disabled or died, was credited
with the service they would have been entitled to
under this section, and then either died a non-
duty death while employed or became disabled
from a non-duty disability.
Early retirement date means for each member
the first day of the month coincident with or next
following the date on which he attains his fiftieth
(50th) birthday.
Earnings means a member's gross salary,
including overtime as provided below, public
safety pay increment and special pay, but exclud-
ing bonuses, such as longevity, safety and
attendance awards and any other non-regular
payments such as unused sick leave or vacation
time pay. Beginning with earnings after December
31, 2008 and pursuant to Internal Revenue Code
Section 414(u)(7), the definition of earnings
includes amounts paid by the village as dif-
ferential wages to members who are absent from
employment while serving in qualified military
service. For Police Officer members only, effec-
tive the first full payroll following October 1,
2013, Police Officers will be limited to three
hundred (300) hours of overtime per officer per
fiscal year. For Firefighter members only, effec-
tive the first full payroll following December 11,
2014, Firefighters will be limited to two hundred
(200) hours of overtime per firefighter per fiscal
year.
Effective date means March 1, 1967, the date
on which this plan initially became effective.
The effective date of this restated plan is the
date as of which the village council adopts the
plan.
Employee means each actively employed full-
time firefighter and police officer of the village.
Employer means the Village of North Palm
Beach, Florida.
Firefighter means any person employed in the
fire department who is certified as a firefighter
as a condition of employment in accordance with
the provisions of F.S. § 633.35, and whose duty it
is to extinguish fires, to protect life, and to
protect property. The term firefighter includes
all certified, supervisory, and command person-
nel whose duties include, in whole or in part, the
supervision, training, guidance, and manage-
ment responsibilities of full-time firefighters,
part-time firefighters, or auxiliary firefighters
but does not include part-time firefighters or
auxiliary firefighters.
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Fund means the trust fund established herein
as part of the plan.
Member means an employee who fulfills the
prescribed participation requirements.
Normal retirement date means for each member
the first day of the month coincident with or next
following the date on which the member attains
age fifty-five (55) or the date on which the
member attains age fifty-two (52) and has twenty-
five (25) years of credited service. A member
may retire on this normal retirement date or on
the first day of any month thereafter.
Plan or system means the Village of North
Palm Beach Fire and Police Retirement Fund as
contained herein and all amendments thereto.
Plan year means each year commencing on
October 1, and ending on September 30.
Police officer means any person employed in
the police department who is certified as a law
enforcement officer as a condition of employment
in accordance with the provisions of F.S. § 943.14,
and who is vested with authority to bear arms
and make arrests, and whose primary responsibil-
ity is the prevention and detection of crime or
the enforcement of the penal, criminal, traffic or
highway laws of the state. This definition includes
all certified supervisory and command personnel
whose duties include, in whole or in part, the
supervision, training, guidance, and manage-
ment responsibilities of full-time law enforce-
ment officers, part-time law enforcement officers,
or auxiliary law enforcement officers, but does
not include part-time law enforcement officers or
auxiliary law enforcement officers as the same
are defined in F.S. §§ 943.10(6) and 943.10(8),
respectively. Any public safety officer who is
responsible for performing both police and fire
services and who is certified as a police officer or
firefighter shall be considered a police officer.
Spouse shall mean the lawful wife or husband
of a member at time of preretirement death or
retirement.
(Ord. No. 9-82, § 1, 6-10-82; Ord. No. 1-92, § 1,
2-13-92; Ord. No. 30-95, §§ 1, 2, 10-12-95; Ord.
No. 2008-18, § 2, 11-13-08; Ord. No. 2010-01, § 2,
1-14-10; Ord. No. 2011-22, § 2, 12-8-11; Ord. No.
2014-11, § 2, 9-25-14; Ord. No. 2015-05, § 2,
4-9-15; Ord. No. 2019-11, § 2, 10-24-19; Ord. No.
2022-06, § 2, 4-14-22; Ord. No. 2022-17, § 2,
9-22-22)
Sec. 2-160. Membership.
(a)Conditions of eligibility.Each person who
becomes an employee must become a member of
the plan as a condition of his employment. Each
such employee shall be considered a member
immediately upon hire.
(b)Application for membership.Each eligible
employee shall, within thirty (30) days of becom-
ing eligible, complete an application form cover-
ing the following points, as well as such other
points or items as may be prescribed by the
board:
(1) Acceptance of the terms and conditions
of the plan;
(2) Designation of a beneficiary or
beneficiaries;
(3) Authorization of a payroll deduction pay-
able to the plan as hereinafter provided;
(4) Provision of acceptable evidence of his
date of birth;
(5) A certified statement as to prior medical
history; and
(6) A written release allowing distribution of
all medical records to the board.
(c)Change in designation of beneficiary.A
member may, from time to time, change his
designated beneficiary by written notice to the
board upon forms provided by the board. Upon
such change, the rights of all previously designated
beneficiaries to receive any benefit under the
plan shall cease.
(d)Buy-back of previous service.Each member
of the plan who terminates his employment with
the employer and who is subsequently reemployed
by the employer shall be permitted to "buy-back"
his previous credited service under the following
conditions:
(1) The length of time between the member's
termination date and his subsequent
reemployment date is not limited.
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(2) The member must pay into the fund an
amount equal to the sum of the amount
he withdrew from the fund when he
terminated employment, plus interest
thereon at the rate of seven (7) percent
from the date of withdrawal to the date
of repayment.
(3) The board shall notify the employee of
the total amount payable, as described
above. Payment must be made within
ninety (90) days of such notification.
(4) Upon timely payment of the required
amount, the employee shall immediately
be reinstated as member of the plan and
shall be given credit for his previous
credited service.
(Ord. No. 9-82, § 2, 6-10-82; Ord. No. 1-92, § 2,
2-13-92; Ord. No. 2008-18, § 3, 11-13-08)
Sec. 2-161. Benefit amounts.
(a)Normal retirement benefit.
(1)Amount.Each member who retires on or
after the member's normal retirement
date shall be eligible to receive a normal
retirement benefit commencing on the
member's actual retirement date. In all
cases, the benefit provided for years of
service on and after October 1, 2018 shall
be at least two and three-fourths percent
of average monthly earnings per year of
service (provided the member was
employed by the village on and after July
11, 2019). The monthly normal retire-
ment benefit shall be calculated as fol-
lows:
For Police Officer members:An amount
equal to the sum of two and one-half (2
3/4) percent of the member's average
monthly earnings multiplied by the
member's credited service prior to October
1, 2018; and two and three-fourths (2
3/4)
percent for credited service on or after
October 1, 2018 (provided the member
remained employed by the village as a
police officer on or after July 11, 2019);
and three percent for credited service on
and after October 1, 2022. On and after
October 1, 2022, a police officer retiree's
maximum monthly pension benefit shall
not exceed eighty (80) percent of the
retiree's average monthly earnings as
that term is defined in section 2-159
above; for retirements prior to October 1,
2022, the maximum benefit is seventy-
five (75) percent of average monthly earn-
ings.
For Firefighter members:An amount equal
to the sum of two and one-half percent of
the member's average monthly earnings
multiplied by the member's credited
service prior to October 1, 2018; and two
and three-fourths percent for credited
service on or after October 1, 2018
(provided the member remained employed
by the Village as a firefighter on or after
July 11, 2019). On and after October 1,
2022, a Firefighter retiree's maximum
monthly pension benefit shall not exceed
eighty (80) percent of the retiree's aver-
age monthly earnings as that term is
defined in Section 2-159 above; for retire-
ments prior to October 1, 2022, the
maximum benefit is 75% of average
monthly earnings.
(2)Form of benefit.The normal retirement
benefit shall commence on the member's
actual retirement date and be payable on
the first day of each month thereafter,
with the last payment being the one next
preceding the retiree's death. If the
member should die before one hundred
twenty (120) monthly payments are made,
payments are then continued to the
designated beneficiary until one hundred
twenty (120) monthly payments in all
have been made, at which time the
benefits cease.
(3)Optional forms of benefit.In lieu of the
form of benefit just described, a member
may choose an optional form of benefit as
provided in section 2-162 below.
(4)One hundred (100) percent vesting.Each
member who attains normal retirement
date or reaches ten (10) years of credited
service shall be one hundred (100) percent
vested in their accrued benefit.
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(b)Early retirement benefit.A member retir-
ing hereunder on or after his early retirement
date may receive either a deferred or an immedi-
ate monthly retirement benefit as follows:
(1) A deferred monthly retirement benefit
which shall commence on the normal
retirement date and shall be continued
on the first day of each month thereafter
during his lifetime, guaranteed for one
hundred twenty (120) monthly pay-
ments. The amount of the benefit shall
be determined and paid in the same
manner as for retirement at the member's
normal retirement date except that aver-
age monthly earnings and credited service
shall be determined as of his early retire-
ment date; or
(2) An immediate monthly retirement benefit
which shall commence on the member's
early retirement date and shall be
continued on the first day of each month
thereafter during the member's lifetime
and guaranteed for one hundred twenty
(120) monthly payments. The benefit pay-
able shall be as determined in
subparagraph (1) above, reduced by three
(3) percent per year by which the start-
ing date of the benefit precedes the normal
retirement date.
(c)Benefit formula.The benefit formula
applicable in all cases of retirement shall be that
in effect on each member's employment termina-
tion date.
(d)Preretirement death.
(1) If a participant who is no longer an
employee of the village dies prior to the
normal retirement date and has attained
age fifty (50) and had ten (10) years of
credited service, a pension benefit of fifty
(50) percent of the amount the participant
would have been entitled to, actuarially
reduced for early retirement, shall be
paid to the surviving beneficiary for as
long as the beneficiary shall live. Such
amount shall be based on the amount
payable under the fifty (50) percent joint
and survivor option, reduced actuarially
to the age of the beneficiary.
(2) If a member dies prior to the normal
retirement date and is then employed by
the village and has ten (10) years of
credited service, such member regardless
of age shall receive pension benefits as
set forth in subsection (3).
(3) The members specified in subsection (2)
above shall receive a benefit equal to the
member's vested accrued pension as
computed under section 2-161(d) and shall
be payable to the designated beneficiary
in equal, consecutive monthly install-
ments over ten (10) years. The benefit
payments specified herein shall com-
mence upon death of the plan member
and approval of the pension board.
(e)Disability retirement.
(1) A member may retire from the service of
the village under the plan if, prior to his
normal retirement date, he becomes
disabled as defined in subsection (2)
hereof. Such retirement shall herein be
referred to as disability retirement. To
be eligible for a non-duty disability benefit,
a member shall have ten (10) or more
years of credited service. There is no
years of service requirement for eligibil-
ity for a duty disability benefit.
(2) a.Non-duty disability.A member will
be considered for a non-duty dis-
ability benefit if in the opinion of
the board, he is wholly prevented
from rendering useful and efficient
service as a police officer or
firefighter, and such member is likely
to remain so disabled continuously
and permanently. Provided however
the cause was not one of the exclu-
sions listed in subsection (10).
b.Duty disability.A member will be
considered for a duty disability
benefit, if in the opinion of the
board, he is wholly prevented from
rendering useful and efficient service
as a police officer or firefighter, and
such member is likely to remain so
disabled continuously and
permanently and the board finds
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that his injury or illness arose out of
and in the course of his employment
with the village. Provided however
the cause was not one of the exclu-
sions listed in subsection (10).
(3)Disability benefit.A member retiring on
a disability retirement from the village
shall receive a benefit as follows:
a.Non-duty disability benefit.The
amount of the benefit for the non-
duty disability benefit is determined
and paid in the same manner as for
retirement at the normal retire-
ment date except that average
monthly earnings and credited
service shall be determined as of
the member's last date of employ-
ment with the village. In any event
the non-duty disability benefit shall
be at least twenty-five (25) percent
of the disabled member's average
monthly earnings.
b.Duty disability benefit.The amount
of the benefit for the duty disability
benefit is determined and paid in
the same manner as for retirement
at the normal retirement date except
that average monthly earnings and
credited service shall be determined
as of the member's last date of
employment with the village. In
any event the duty disability benefit
shall be at least forty-two (42)
percent of the disabled member's
average monthly earnings.
(4) No member shall be permitted to retire
under the provisions of this section until
examined by a duly qualified physician
or surgeon, to be selected by the board for
that purpose, and is found to be disabled
in the degree and in the manner speci-
fied in this section. Any member retiring
under this section shall be examined
periodically by a duly qualified physician
or surgeon or board of physicians or
surgeons to be selected by the board for
that purpose, to determine if such dis-
ability has ceased to exist.
(5) The normal form of benefit payable to a
member who retires with a total and
permanent disability as a result of a
disability commencing prior to his normal
retirement date is the monthly income
payable for ten (10) years certain and
life. The disability retiree may also choose
any of the optional benefits available in
section 2-162 of this plan.
(6) a. The monthly retirement income to
which a member is entitled in the
event of his disability retirement
will be payable on the first day of
each month. The first payment will
be made on the first day of the
month following the later to occur
of:
1. The date on which the dis-
ability has existed for six (6)
months, or
2. The date the board approves
the payment of such retire-
ment income.
b. The last payment will be:
1. If the member recovers from
the disability prior to his
normal retirement date, the
payment due next preceding
the date of such recovery; or
2. If the member dies without
recovering from his disability
or attains his normal retire-
ment date while still disabled,
the payment due next preced-
ing his death or the one
hundred twentieth (120th)
monthly payment, whichever
is later.
c. Any monthly retirement income pay-
ments due after the death of a
disabled member shall be paid to
the member's designated beneficiary.
(7) If the board finds that a member who is
receiving a disability retirement income
is, at any time prior to his normal retire-
ment date, no longer disabled, as provided
herein, the board shall direct that the
disability retirement income be
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discontinued. Recovery from disability
as used herein shall mean the ability of
the member to render useful and efficient
service as a police officer or firefighter.
(8) If the member recovers from the dis-
ability and reenters the service of the
village as a police officer or firefighter,
his service will be deemed to have been
continuous, but the period beginning with
the first month for which he received a
disability retirement income payment and
ending with the date he reentered the
service of the village will not be considered
as credited service for the purpose of the
plan.
(9) Any condition or impairment of health of
a member caused by tuberculosis,
hypertension, heart disease, hardening
of the arteries, hepatitis, or meningococ-
cal meningitis resulting in total or partial
disability or death, shall be presumed to
be accidental and suffered in the line of
duty unless the contrary be shown by
competent evidence. Any condition or
impairment of health caused directly or
proximately by exposure, which exposure
occurred in the active performance of
duty at some definite time or place without
willful negligence on the part of the
member, resulting in total or partial
disability, shall be presumed to be
accidental and suffered in the line of
duty, provided that such member shall
have successfully passed a physical
examination upon entering such service,
which physical examination including
electrocardiogram failed to reveal any
evidence of such condition. In order to be
entitled to presumption in the case of
hepatitis, meningococcal meningitis, or
tuberculosis, the member must meet the
requirements of F.S. § 112.181. The final
decision whether a member meets the
requirements for duty disability pension
rests with the board and shall be based
on substantial competent evidence on
the record as a whole.
(10) A member will not be entitled to receive
any disability retirement income if the
disability is a result of:
a. Excessive and habitual use by the
member of drugs, intoxicants, or
narcotics;
b. Injury or disease sustained by the
member while willfully and illegally
participating in fights, riots, civil
insurrections or while committing a
crime;
c. Injury or disease sustained by the
member while serving in any armed
forces (this exclusion does not affect
members who have become disabled
as a result of intervening military
service under the federal Heroes
Earnings Assistance and Relief Tax
Act of 2008 (H.R. 6081; P.L. 110-
245);
d. Injury or disease sustained by the
member after employment has
terminated;
e. Injury or disease sustained by the
member while working for anyone
other than the village and arising
out of such employment.
(f)Termination benefits and vesting.
(1) Each member who terminates employ-
ment with the employer and who is not
eligible for any of the retirement, death,
or disability benefits set forth herein
shall receive from the fund within a
reasonable time following his date of
termination a refund of his accumulated
contributions. Provided, however, that if
at the time of his termination of employ-
ment the member has ten (10) or more
years of credited service, he shall have
the option of either receiving his
accumulated contributions or his accrued
benefit payable commencing at the date
which would have been his normal retire-
ment date had he remained in full-time
employment with the employer. The
member may direct that his accrued
benefit, reduced as for early retirement,
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commence at age fifty (50) or any date
thereafter provided his accumulated
contributions are not withdrawn.
(2) A refund of accumulated contributions to
a member or his beneficiary shall
constitute a full and complete discharge
of any and all rights to claims or benefits
under the system by the member or his
beneficiaries.
(g)Cost of Living Adjustment.The amount of
pension benefit will be increased in accordance
with the changes in the consumer index (CPI-W
U.S.) published by the U.S. Bureau of Labor
Statistics. Adjustments of pension payments will
be made on October 1 of each year reflecting the
change in the consumer price index over the
twelve-month period ending April 1. The
maximum increase in the pension benefit for any
one (1) year is three (3) percent. Such adjust-
ments shall apply to each retirement, survivor or
disability benefit in pay status as of each October
1.
If there is a decrease in the CPI-W U.S. over
the twelve-month period ending April 1, then the
amount of the pension benefit will not increase
again until there is an increase in that index
beyond the prior high level of the CPI-W U.S.
The prior high level of the CPI-W U.S. is the high
water mark for purposes of future cost of living
increases. After a decrease in the CPI-W U.S.,
there is no future cost of living increase until the
index exceeds the most recent high water mark.
(h)Limitations on benefits.In no event may a
member's annual benefit exceed the limitations
of Internal Revenue Code Section 415 as such
provisions apply to governmental pension plans.
The provisions of Internal Revenue Code Section
415 that apply to governmental pension plans
are hereby incorporated into this plan by refer-
ence. The maximum amount of the actual annual
retirement income paid in any year with respect
to a Participant under this Plan attributable to
employer provided benefits shall not exceed the
dollar amount allowable for any calendar year
pursuant to Internal Revenue Code Section 415(b),
as adjusted in such calendar year for increases
in the cost of living in accordance with regula-
tions issued by the Secretary of the Treasury
under Internal Revenue Code Section 415(d).
For purposes of applying the basic limitation,
benefits payable in any form other than a straight
life annuity with no ancillary benefits shall be
adjusted, as provided by Department of Treasury
regulations, so that such benefits are the Actuarial
Equivalent of a straight life annuity.
(1) For purposes of this subsection, the fol-
lowing benefits shall not be taken into
account:
a. Any ancillary benefit which is not
directly related to retirement income
benefits; and
b. Any other benefit not required under
Internal Revenue Code Section
415(b)(2) and Treasury Regulations
issued thereunder to be taken into
account for purposes of the limita-
tion of Internal Revenue Code Sec-
tion 415(b)(1).
(2) Cost-of-Living Adjustments. The limita-
tions as stated herein shall be adjusted
annually in accordance with any cost-of-
living adjustments prescribed by the
Secretary of the Treasury pursuant to
Internal Revenue Code Section 415(d).
(3) For distributions after December 31, 2002,
for purposes of Internal Revenue Code
Section 415(b), the mortality table is the
table used under Internal Revenue Code
Section 417(e), as prescribed by the
Secretary of the Treasury in Revenue
Ruling 2001-62.
(4) For any person who first becomes a
member in any Plan year beginning on or
after January 1, 1996, compensation for
any Plan year shall not include any
amounts in excess of the Internal Revenue
Code Section 401(a)(17) limitation (as
amended by the Omnibus Budget
Reconciliation Act of 1993), which limita-
tion shall be adjusted as required by
federal law for qualified government plans
and shall be further adjusted for changes
in the cost of living in the manner provided
by Internal Revenue Code Section
401(a)(17)(B). For any person who first
became a member prior to the first Plan
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year beginning on or after January 1,
1996, the limitation on compensation
shall be not less than the maximum
compensation amount that was allowed
to be taken into account under the Plan
as in effect on July 1, 1993, which limita-
tion shall be adjusted for changes in the
cost of living since 1989 in the manner
provided by Internal Revenue Code Sec-
tion 401(a)(17).
(i)401(a)(9) Required Distributions.
(1) Effective for distributions after December
31, 1996, in accordance with Internal
Revenue Code Section 401(a)(9), all
benefits under this Plan will be
distributed, beginning not later than the
required beginning date set forth below,
over a period not extending beyond the
life expectancy of the member or the life
expectancy of the member and a
beneficiary.
(2) Any and all benefit payments shall begin
by the later of:
a. April 1 of the calendar year follow-
ing the calendar year of the member's
retirement date; or
b. April 1 of the calendar year follow-
ing the calendar year in which the
member attains age seventy and
one-half (70 ).
(3) If an employee dies before his entire
vested interest has been distributed to
him, the remaining portion of such inter-
est will be distributed at least as rapidly
as provided for under this Plan and will
comply with the incidental death benefit
under Internal Revenue Code Section
401(a)(9)(G).
(4) All distributions under this Plan will be
made in accordance with this section,
Internal Revenue Code Section 401(a)(9)
and the regulations thereunder,
notwithstanding any provisions of this
Plan to the contrary, effective beginning
January 1, 2003.
(Ord. No. 9-82, § 3, 6-10-82; Ord. No. 20-82, § 1,
11-18-82; Ord. No. 1-92, § 3, 2-13-92; Ord. No.
6-95, § 1, 3-9-95; Ord. No. 30-95, § 3, 10-12-95;
Ord. No. 20-2000, §§ 1, 2, 8-10-00; Ord. No.
08-2001, § 1, 4-12-01; Ord. No. 13-2003, §§ 1—3,
5-8-03; Ord. No. 2008-18, § 4, 11-13-08; Ord. No.
2010-01, § 3, 1-14-10; Ord. No. 2011-03, § 2,
2-10-11; Ord. No. 2011-22, § 3, 12-8-11; Ord. No.
2014-11, § 3, 9-25-14; Ord. No. 2019-11, § 2,
10-24-19; Ord. No. 2022-06, § 2, 4-14-22; Ord.
No. 2022-17, § 2, 9-22-22)
Sec. 2-162. Optional forms of benefits.
Each member entitled to a normal, early,
disability or vested retirement benefit shall have
the right, at any time prior to the date on which
benefit payments begin, to elect to have his or
her benefit payable under any one (1) of the
options hereinafter set forth in lieu of benefits
provided herein, and to revoke any such elec-
tions and make a new election at any time prior
to the actual beginning of payments. The value
of optional benefits shall be actuarially equivalent
to the value of benefits otherwise payable, and
the present value of payments to the retiring
member must be at least equal to fifty (50)
percent of the total present value of payments to
the retiring member and his/her beneficiary. The
member shall make such an election by written
request to the board, such request being retained
in the board's files. Notwithstanding any other
provision of this section, a retired member may
change his or her designation of joint annuitant
or beneficiary up to two (2) times as provided in
F.S. § 175.333 without the approval of the board
of trustees or the current joint annuitant or
beneficiary. The retiree is not required to provide
proof of the good health of the joint annuitant or
beneficiary being removed, and the joint annuitant
or beneficiary being removed need not be living.
Any retired member who desires to change his or
her joint annuitant or beneficiary shall file with
the board of trustees a notarized notice of such
change. Upon receipt of a completed change of
joint annuitant form or such other notice, the
board of trustees shall adjust the member's
monthly benefit by the application of actuarial
tables and calculations developed to ensure that
the benefit paid is the actuarial equivalent of the
present value of the member's current benefit
and there is no impact to the plan. The beneficiary
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or joint annuitant being removed will be assumed
deceased by the actuary in determining the
actuarially equivalent amount of the revised
monthly payment. No retiree's current benefits
shall be increased as a result of the change of
beneficiary.
(1)Option 1—Joint and last survivor option.
The member may elect to receive a benefit,
which has been adjusted to the actuarial
equivalent of the normal form of benefit,
during his/her lifetime and have such
adjusted benefit (or a designated fraction
thereof, for example one hundred (100)
percent, seventy-five (75) percent, sixty-
six and two-thirds percent or fifty (50)
percent) continued after his death to and
during the lifetime of his beneficiary.
The election of option 1 shall be null and
void if the designated beneficiary dies
before the member's benefit payments
commence.
(2)Option 2—Social security adjustment
option.If a member retires before being
eligible for social security benefits, he
may elect this option. A member may
elect to receive a larger pension up to the
date he begins receiving social security
benefits. The member's pension benefits
may be reduced or terminated after social
security payments begin. The amount of
reduction shall be actuarially determined.
(3)Option 3—Other.In lieu of the other
optional forms enumerated in this sec-
tion, benefits may be paid in any form
approved by the board so long as actuarial
equivalence with the benefits otherwise
payable is maintained, provided, however,
that the board shall not authorize any
actuarially equivalent single or lump sum
distributions.
(Ord. No. 9-82, § 4, 6-10-82; Ord. No. 1-92, § 4,
2-13-92; Ord. No. 20-2000, § 3, 8-10-00; Ord. No.
13-2003, § 4, 5-8-03; Ord. No. 2008-18, § 5,
11-13-08; Ord. No. 2010-01, § 4, 1-14-10)
Sec. 2-163. Contributions.
(a)Member contributions.
(1)Amount.Members of the plan shall make
regular contributions to the fund at rate
equal to two (2) percent of their respec-
tive earnings.
For Police Officer members only:
(i) Effective at the beginning of the
first full payroll period after October
1, 2013, the Police Office member
contribution shall increase to two
and sixty-seven one hundredths
(2.67) percent;
(ii) Effective the first full payroll period
after October 1, 2014, the Police
Officer member contribution shall
increase to three and thirty-three
one hundredths (3.33) percent; and
(iii) Effective the first full payroll period
after October 1, 2015, the Police
Officer member contribution shall
increase to four (4) percent.
(iv) Effective the second payroll period
following the adoption of Ordinance
2019-11, the Police Officer member
shall contribute six (6) percent of
earnings.
(v) Effective the first payroll period
after October 1, 2020, the Police
Officer member shall contribute
seven (7) percent of earnings.
(vi) Effective the first full payroll after
October 1, 2022, the Police Officer
member shall contribute eight and
one-half (8.5) percent of earnings.
(vii) Effective the first full payroll after
October 1, 2023, the Police Officer
member shall contribute ten (10)
percent of earnings; and
(viii) During participation in the DROP,
Police Officer members shall
contribute four (4) percent of earn-
ings, with three (3) percent credited
to the member's DROP account and
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one (1) percent applied to the pen-
sion plan unfunded actuarial accrued
liability ("UAAL").
For Firefighter members only:
(i) Effective the beginning of the first
full payroll period after April 1,
2015, the Firefighter member
contribution shall increase to three
and one-half (3 ) percent; and
(ii) Effective the first full payroll period
after April 1, 2016, the Firefighter
member contribution shall increase
to five (5) percent.
(iii) Effective with the second payroll
period following adoption of
Ordinance No. Ordinance No. 2019-
11, the Firefighter member contribu-
tion shall increase from five (5)
percent of earnings to seven (7)
[percent] of earnings.
(iv) Effective the first full payroll period
after September 30, 2022, the
Firefighter member contribution
shall increase from seven (7) percent
to seven and one-half (7.5) percent.
(v) Effective the first full payroll period
after September 30, 2023, the
Firefighter member contribution
shall increase from seven and one-
half (7.5) percent to eight (8) percent.
(vi) Effective the first full payroll period
after September 30, 2024, the
Firefighter member contribution
shall increase from eight (8) percent
to eight and one-half (8.5) percent.
(vii) During DROP, the Firefighter
member shall contribute four (4)
percent of earnings, with three (3)
percent credited to the member's
DROP account and one (1) percent
applied to the Pension Plan.
(2)Duration.The village shall pick-up, rather
than deduct from each member's pay,
beginning with the date of employment,
two (2) percent of the member's basic
compensation. The monies so picked-up
shall be deposited in the fund on a
monthly basis. An account record shall
be maintained continuously for each
member. Pick-up contributions shall
continue until death, disability or termina-
tion of service, whichever shall occur
first. Contributions shall remain in the
fund unless withdrawn as provided in
the plan. No member shall have the
option to choose to receive the contributed
amounts directly instead of having them
paid by the village directly to the plan.
All such pick-up contributions by the
village shall be deemed and be considered
as part of the member's accumulated
contributions and subject to all provi-
sions of the plan pertaining to
accumulated contributions of members.
The intent of this provision is to comply
with Section 414(h)(2) of the Internal
Revenue Code. For paying Social Security
taxes, and for such other purposes except
as specified in this plan, the amount of
employee contributions "picked-up"or
paid by the village will be added to the
amount distributed on a current basis in
order to determine total wages, salary,
pay or compensation. In the event that
the employer agrees to assume and pay
member contributions in lieu of direct
contributions by the member, such
contributions shall accordingly be paid
into the plan on behalf of the members.
No member subject to such agreement
shall have the option of choosing to receive
the contributed amounts directly instead
of having them paid by the employer
directly to the plan. All such contribu-
tions by the employer shall be deemed
and considered as part of the member's
accumulated contributions and subject to
all provisions of this plan pertaining to
accumulated contributions of members.
The intent of this language is to comply
with section 414(h)(2) of the Internal
Revenue Code.
(3)Interest.Interest shall be credited to
member contributions as of September
30 of each year at a rate equal to the
change in the consumer price index,
published by the U.S. Bureau of Labor
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Statistics, over the twelve-month period
ending on the previous June 30. The
maximum rate for any year shall be
seven (7) percent and the minimum rate
shall be zero (0) percent.
(4)Guaranteed refund.All benefits payable
under this plan are in lieu of a refund of
accumulated contributions. In any event,
however, each member shall be
guaranteed the payment of benefits on
his behalf at least equal in total amount
to his accumulated contributions.
(b)State contributions.Any monies received
or receivable by reason of the laws of the State of
Florida for the express purpose of funding and
paying for the benefits of police officers or firefight-
ers shall be deposited in the fund within the time
prescribed by law. Such monies shall be for the
sole and exclusive use of members or may be
used to pay extra benefits for members. The
State contributions pursuant to Chapters 175/
185 are applied to reduce the Village's annual
contribution.
(c)Employer contributions.So long as this
plan is in effect, the employer shall make contribu-
tions to the fund in an amount at least equal to
the difference in each year as between the
aggregate member and state contributions for
the year and the total cost for the year as shown
by the most recent actuarial valuation report for
the system. The total cost for any year shall be
defined as the total of normal cost plus the
additional amount sufficient to amortize the
unfunded actuarial liability in accordance with
applicable laws of the State of Florida. The
employer's contribution shall be deposited on at
least a quarterly basis. The State contributions
pursuant to Chapters 175/185 are applied to
reduce the Village's annual contribution.
(d)Forfeitures.Any forfeitures arising shall
be applied to reduce future contributions to the
plan. No forfeited amount shall be applied to
change benefit amounts for members.
(Ord. No. 9-82, § 5, 6-10-82; Ord. No. 23-86, § 1,
12-11-86; Ord. No. 1-92, § 5, 2-13-92; Ord. No.
30-95, § 4, 10-12-95; Ord. No. 29-96, § 1, 7-25-96;
Ord. No. 2014-11, § 4, 9-25-14; Ord. No. 2015-
05, § 3, 4-9-15; Ord. No. 2019-11, § 2, 10-24-19;
Ord. No. 2022-06, § 2, 4-14-22; Ord. No. 2022-
17, § 2, 9-22-22)
Sec. 2-164. Board of trustees—Generally.
(a)Composition. The board of trustees shall
consist of five (5) members: four (4) of whom
shall be elected by a majority of the members of
the plan. Two (2) of the elected members shall be
certified firefighters of the village, and two (2)
shall be certified police officers of the village.
The fifth member of the board shall be a legal
resident of the village and shall be appointed by
the village council. Each of the elected board
members shall be appointed for a period of four
(4) years, unless he sooner leaves the employ-
ment of the village or forfeits membership on the
board, whereupon a successor shall be elected by
a majority of the members of the plan. Each of
the elected board members may succeed himself
in office. The resident member shall be a trustee
for a term of four (4) years unless he forfeits
membership on the board and he may succeed
himself in office. The resident member shall be
appointed by the village council for a term
commencing October 1, 1998, and expiring April
30, 1999. The resident member shall be appointed
by the village council for a two-year term com-
mencing May 1, 1999, and on the first day of May
of each second year thereafter. The resident
member shall hold office at the pleasure of the
village council. The fifth member shall have the
same rights as each of the other four (4) members
appointed or elected as herein provided. The
trustees shall by majority vote elect from its
members a chairman and a secretary. The
secretary of the board shall keep a complete
minute book of the actions, proceedings, or hear-
ings of the board. The trustees shall not receive
any compensation as such, but may receive
expenses and per diem as provided by law.
(b)Report and records.The secretary of the
board shall keep, or cause to be kept in convenient
form, such data as shall be necessary for an
actuarial valuation of the assets and liabilities of
the system. The fiscal year for the keeping of
records and rendering reports shall be from
October 1 through September 30.
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(c)Board meetings.The board shall meet at
least quarterly each year. All board meetings
shall be held at village hall. At any meeting of
the board, three (3) trustees shall constitute a
quorum. Any and all acts and decisions shall be
by at least three (3) members of the board;
however, no trustee shall take part in any action
in connection with his or her own participation
in the plan, and no unfair discrimination shall be
shown to any individual participating in the
plan.
(d)Power to bring and defend lawsuits.The
board shall be a legal entity with, in addition to
otherpowersandresponsibilitiescontainedherein,
the power to bring and defend lawsuits of every
kind, nature and description. The board shall be
independent of the village to the extent required
to accomplish the intent, requirements, and
responsibilities provided for in this article and
applicable law.
(Ord. No. 9-82, § 6, 6-10-82; Ord. No. 14-87, § 1,
9-10-87; Ord. No. 1-92, § 6, 2-13-92; Ord. No.
22-98, § 1, 9-24-98; Ord. No. 06-2002, § 3,
2-28-02; Ord. No. 2006-04, § 1, 3-23-06; Ord. No.
2006-07, § 2, 3, 5-25-06; Ord. No. 2010-01, § 5,
1-14-10)
Sec. 2-165. Prior service.
Unless otherwise prohibited by law, the years
or fractional parts of years that a member
previously served as a firefighter, police officer
or public safety officer with the village during a
period of employment and for which accumulated
contributions were withdrawn from the fund, or
the years and fractional parts of years that a
member served as a firefighter, police officer or
public safety officer for this or any other municipal,
county, state or federal fire, police or public
safety department, or any time served in the
military service of the armed forces of the United
States, shall be added to the years of credited
service provided that:
(1) The member contributes to the fund the
sum that would have been contributed,
based on the member's salary and the
employee contribution rate in effect at
the time that the credited service is re-
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Chapter 8
EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT*
Article I. In General
Sec. 8-1. Definitions.
Sec. 8-2. Applicability.
Sec. 8-3. Emergency management structure.
Sec. 8-4. Powers, duties and responsibilities.
Sec. 8-5. Declaration of a state of emergency.
Sec. 8-6. Termination of a state of emergency.
Secs. 8-7—8-20. Reserved.
Article II. Civil Disorders and Disturbances
Sec. 8-21. Mayor designated local authority for preservation of public
peace.
Sec. 8-22. Declaration of a state of emergency.
Secs. 8-23—8-30. Reserved.
Article III. Reserved
*Editor’s note—Ord. No. 16-01, §§ 1—3, adopted June 28, 2001 has re-enacted this chapter and replaced former Chapter 8
with the similar provisions as currently set out herein. Former Chapter 8 was entitled "Civil Emergencies"and derived from the
original Code.
Cross reference—Administration generally, Ch. 2.
State law reference—Disaster preparedness, F.S. Ch. 252.
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ARTICLE I. IN GENERAL
Sec. 8-1. Definitions.
As used in this chapter, the following terms,
phrases, words and their derivations shall have
the meanings given herein:
Disaster means any natural, technological or
civil emergency that causes damage of sufficient
severity and magnitude to result in the declara-
tion of a state of emergency by the county, the
governor or the President of the United States.
Emergency means any occurrence, or threat
thereof, whether natural, technological, or man
made, in war or in peace, which results or may
result in substantial injury or harm to the
village population or substantial damage to or
loss of property.
Emergency management means the prepara-
tion for, the mitigation of, the response to, and
recovery from emergencies and disasters.
(Ord. No. 16-2001, § 1, 6-28-01)
Sec. 8-2. Applicability.
All officers, employees, contractors, vendors,
boards, commissions, authorities, and other agen-
cies of the village are subject to the provisions of
this chapter.
(Ord. No. 16-2001, § 1, 6-28-01)
Sec. 8-3. Emergency management
structure.
(a) The village manager or his designee shall
perform the function of director of emergency
management and shall implement, manage and
report on all actions authorized and taken on the
provisions of this chapter.
(b) Duties as director of emergency manage-
ment shall include the on-going planning for and
coordination of those actions necessary for the
creation and maintenance of a village
comprehensive emergency management plan and
of an effective emergency response capability to
prepare for and manage emergency conditions.
(c) The public safety building's multi-purpose
room shall serve as the village emergency opera-
tions center as necessary. The department of
public works building will serve as a back-up
village emergency operations center should the
need arise.
(Ord. No. 16-2001, § 1, 6-28-01; Ord. No. 2006-
24, § 2.D, 11-9-06)
Sec. 8-4. Powers, duties and responsibili-
ties.
(a) The village manager, when acting as direc-
tor of emergency management shall have the
following powers, duties and responsibilities:
(1) Recommend a declaration of local
emergency pursuant to section 8-5. To
inform the Village Council of the reasons
for and status of the event(s) requiring
the declaration.
(2) To direct the creation, revision and
exercise of a village comprehensive
emergency management plan for the
mitigation of, preparation for, response
to, and recovery from emergencies, and
to exercise all powers permitted by F.S.
chapter 252.
(3) To direct the efforts of emergency services
personnel in preparation for, response to,
and recovery from emergency conditions.
(4) To recommend a budget to the village
council for the creation and maintenance
of an emergency response capability as
provided herein.
(5) To recommend emergency regulations
necessary for the protection of life and
property, establishment of public order,
and control of adverse conditions affect-
ing public welfare resulting from an
emergency, to the mayor and/or village
council.
(Ord. No. 16-2001, § 1, 6-28-01)
Sec. 8-5. Declaration of a state of
emergency.
(a) The mayor, vice mayor or village manager,
in the order named, shall have the authority to
declare a local state of emergency. Upon the
absence or unavailability of the mayor, vice
mayor or village manager, the acting village
manager may issue such a declaration.
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(b) Any declaration of a local state of emergency
and all emergency regulations activated under
the provisions of this chapter shall be confirmed
by the village council by resolution no later than
the next regular meeting, unless the nature of
the emergency renders a meeting of the village
council extremely impractical. Confirmation of
the emergency declaration shall disclose the
reason for, and anticipated impacts of, actions
proposed and taken to manage the emergency
and other pertinent data relating to the emergency
requiring the declaration.
(c) Emergency resolutions authorized under
this chapter shall include but not be limited to
the following subjects:
Resolution Subject
A Evacuation
B Curfews; declaration of areas off limits
C Suspension or regulation of the sale of, or
offer to sell, with or without consideration:
Alcoholic beverages, explosives or
combustibles.
D Suspension of local building regulations
E Emergency procurement procedures
F Regulating the use of and rationing of fuel,
ice and other essentials
(d) A local state of emergency, when declared
as provided herein, shall continue in effect from
day to day for a period of seven (7) days unless
declared terminated prior to the passage of
seven (7) days;should the local state of emergency
be of a duration longer than seven (7) days, the
declaration may be extended, as necessary, in
seven (7) day increments.
(e) When a local state of emergency is declared
under this article the village has the power and
authority to waive the procedures and formali-
ties otherwise required by law pertaining to:
(1) Performance of public work in taking
whatever prudent action is necessary to
ensure the health, safety and welfare of
the village.
(2) Entering into contracts.
(3) Incurring obligations.
(4) Employment of permanent and temporary
workers.
(5) Utilization of volunteer workers.
(6) Rental of equipment.
(7) Acquisition and distribution, with or
without compensation, of supplies, materi-
als, and facilities.
(8) Appropriation and expenditure of public
funds.
(Ord. No. 16-2001, § 1, 6-28-01; Ord. No. 2011-
18, § 2, 9-22-11)
Sec. 8-6. Termination of a state of
emergency.
A state of emergency shall be terminated by a
vote of the village council if practicable upon the
certification of the person who originally requested
the declaration of the state of emergency, that
the conditions leading to or causing the emergency
no longer exist and the village's departments are
able to manage the situation without
extraordinary assistance; provide that a state of
emergency established under F.S. section 252.38
et seq., shall terminate at the end of a period of
seven (7) consecutive days after the declaration
of the emergency, unless prior to the end of the
seven-day period, the public official calling for or
the village council has terminated such state of
emergency. Any extension of the seven-day time
period must be accomplished by a request from
the public official and concurrence of the village
council by duly enacted resolution.
(Ord. No. 16-2001, § 1, 6-28-01)
Secs. 8-7—8-20. Reserved.
ARTICLE II. CIVIL DISORDERS AND
DISTURBANCES
Sec. 8-21. Mayor designated local author-
ity for preservation of public
peace.
The mayor is hereby designated the local
authority for preservation of the public peace,
pursuant to F.S. section 870.041.
(Ord. No. 16-2001, § 2, 6-28-01)
Sec. 8-22. Declaration of a state of
emergency.
(a) Whenever the chief of police determines
that there has been an act of violence or a
flagrant and substantial defiance of, or resistance
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to, a lawful exercise of public authority and that,
on account thereof, there is reason to believe that
there exists a clear and present danger of a riot
or other general public disorder, widespread
disobedience of the law, and substantial injury to
persons or property, all of which constitute an
imminent threat to public peace or order and to
the general welfare of the village or a part or
parts thereof, the chief of police shall certify to
the village manager, in writing, who in turn shall
certify to the Mayor, in writing, that an emergency
exists within the village or any part or parts
thereof.
(b) Whenever a state of emergency is declared
as stated above, the measures listed in F.S.
section 870.44 shall automatically be invoked.
(c) Any declaration of a state of emergency
under this section shall be confirmed by the
village council through the village manager as
soon as practical following the issuance of the
declaration. Confirmation shall include the
reasons for, anticipated impacts of, actions
proposed and taken to manage the emergency,
and other pertinent data relating to the declara-
tion.
(d) Whenever a state of emergency is declared
under this section, the discretionary emergency
measures listed in F.S. section 870.045 may be
invoked in whole or in part, with limitation and
conditions as may be deemed appropriate.
(e) A state of emergency, when declared as
provided herein, shall commence upon the declara-
tion thereof and shall terminate at the end of
seventy-two (72) consecutive hours, unless, prior
to the end of such seventy-two (72) hour period,
the chief of police shall have recommended
termination of the emergency. An extension of
the seventy-two (72) hour period must be
accomplished by request of the chief of police and
concurrence of the village council, by duly enacted
resolution.
(f) Upon the declaration of a state of emergency
under this section, a written notice of such
declaration shall be posted on the main bulletin
board in village hall, and as promptly as practi-
cal, a notice of declared state of emergency shall
be filed in the office of the village clerk or clerk of
the circuit court, and delivered to local news
media for publication and radio and television
broadcast.
(Ord. No. 16-2001, § 2, 6-28-01; Ord. No. 2011-
21, § 8, 11-10-11)
Secs. 8-23—8-30. Reserved.
ARTICLE III. RESERVED*
*Editor’s note—Ord. No. 2022-14, § 2, adopted Sept. 8,
2022, repealed art. III, § 8-31, which pertained to exempt
employee emergency duty and derived from Ord. No. 2013-
14, § 2, adopted Sept. 26, 2013.
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4. In determining whether the reasonable
accommodation request shall be granted
or denied, the requesting party shall be
required to establish that they are
protected under the FHA, ADA or other
applicable state or federal regulation by
demonstrating that they are handicapped
or disabled, as defined in the FHA, ADA
or other state or federal regulation.
Although the definition of disability is
subject to judicial interpretation, for
purposes of this section the disabled
individual must show:
a. A physical or mental impairment
which substantially limits one (1) or
more major life activities; and
b. A record of having such impair-
ment; or
c. That they are regarded as having
such impairment.
The requesting party shall further
demonstrate that the proposed accom-
modations being sought are reasonable
and necessary to afford handicapped/
disabled persons equal opportunity to
use and enjoy housing. The foregoing (as
interpreted by the courts), as well as the
applicant's ability to demonstrate compli-
ance with the requirements set forth in
subsection (c)(2) above (where applicable)
shall be the basis for the Community
Development Director's recommendation
and the Village's Council determination
on the reasonable accommodation request.
5. While an application for reasonable accom-
modation is pending before the Village,
the Village will not enforce the subject
zoning or land development ordinance,
rule, policy, or procedure against the
requesting party.
(d)Fee.There shall be no fee imposed by the
Village in connection with a request for reason-
able accommodation under this section or an
appeal of a determination, and the Village shall
have no obligation to pay a requesting party's (or
an appealing party's) attorneys' fees or costs in
connection with a request or an appeal.
(Ord. No. 2017-22, § 2, 12-14-17; Ord. No.
2019-08, § 2, 8-8-19)
Sec. 45-26. Reserved.
ARTICLE III. DISTRICT REGULATIONS*
Sec. 45-27. R-1 single-family dwelling
district.
A.Uses permitted.Within any R-1 single-
family dwelling district no building, structure,
land or water shall be used except for one (1) or
more of the following uses:
1. Single-family dwellings with accessory
buildings customarily incident thereto,
subject to each of the requirements set
forth in this section and throughout this
chapter.
2. Public schools.
3. Parks and recreation facilities owned or
leased by or operated under the supervi-
sion of the Village of North Palm Beach.
4. Detached fence storage areas.
5. Satellite dish antenna.
6. Community residential homes. Com-
munity residential homes of six (6) or
fewer residents which otherwise meet
the definition of a community residential
home, provided that such homes shall
not be located within a radius of one
thousand (1,000) feet of another existing
such home with six (6) or fewer residents.
7. Family day care home.
8. Lamp post.
9. Decorative post structure.
B.Building height regulations.All single-
family dwellings shall be limited to two (2)
stories and thirty feet (30') in height. For the
purposes of this subsection, height shall be
measured from the average elevation of the
existing grade prior to land alteration for proper-
ties outside of special flood hazard areas and
from the required design flood elevation for
*Cross reference—Home occupations, § 17-2.
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properties within special flood hazard areas.
Height shall be measured to the highest point of
the following:
1. The coping of a flat roof and the deck
lines on a mansard roof;
2. The average height level between the
eaves and roof ridges or peak for gable,
hip or gambrel roofs; or
3. The average height between high and
low points for a shed roof.
Decorative architectural elements, chimneys,
mechanical equipment, non-habitable cupolas,
elevator shafts or similar appurtenances shall be
excluded from the foregoing height restrictions.
Rooftops shall not be used for pools, decks, or
other spaces to congregate.
C.Building sitearea regulations.Theminimum
lot or building site area for each single-family
dwelling shall be seven thousand five hundred
(7,500) square feet and have a width of not less
than seventy-five (75) feet, measured at the
building line.
D.Yard space regulations.
1.Front yard.There shall be a front yard of
not less than twenty-five (25) feet for the
first story and thirty (30) feet for the
second story measured from the street
line to the front building line.
2.Rear yard.There shall be a rear yard of
not less than twenty (20) feet for the first
story and twenty-five (25) feet for the
second story measured from the rear
building line to the rear lot line.
3.Side yards.There shall be a side yard on
each side of the side building line of not
less than ten (10) feet for the first story
and fifteen (15) feet for the second story.
In the case of corner lots, no building and
no addition to any building shall be
erected or placed nearer than twenty (20)
feet to the side street line of any such lot.
(a) For a distance of one (1) block on
streets intersecting U.S. #1,
measured from the right-of-way line
of said U.S. #1, side yards of at least
twenty-five (25) feet in depth shall
be provided.
4.Applicability of second story setback. The
second story setback shall apply only to
the roofed portion of the second story of a
two-story, single-family dwelling and shall
not apply to non-roofed second story patios
or balconies. The second story setback
for the rear yard shall not apply if any
portion of the rear lot line abuts a
waterway.
E.Building wall articulation. Building wall
articulation shall be provided on all walls with
an unbroken plane in excess of fifteen (15) feet in
height and thirty (30) feet in length. Window
and door openings shall not be considered a
plane break. The articulation shall be in the
form of a wall perpendicular to the property line
at a minimum distance of two (2) feet and
extending parallel to the property line a minimum
of ten (10) feet. The articulation must extend
evenly over the entire height of the building wall
(See figure 1 below).
Figure 1 Building Wall Articulation
F.Second-story floor area. The floor area of
the second story of a single-family dwelling shall
not exceed seventy-five (75) percent of the floor
area of the first story. For the purpose of this
subsection, floor area shall include all areas
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lying within the building perimeter established
by the interior side of the exterior walls of the
building, including garages, covered patios, and
other open-air exterior areas that are under roof.
The floor area for the second story shall include
areas open to below.
G.Off street parking regulations. At least one
parking space measuring at least nine (9) feet by
eighteen (18) feet (one hundred sixty-two (162)
square feet) shall be provided. All parking spaces
shall consist of a durable surfaced area as
approved by the community development direc-
tor, and may be enclosed in the dwelling, in an
accessory building or in an unenclosed area or a
driveway. All vehicles parking on a lot must be
parked on a durable surface.
H.Accessory structures.One detached
automobile garage and one open-air pavilion
may be constructed on any lot within the R-1
single-family dwelling district provided that all
requirements of this chapter are met. Open air
pavilions shall be subject to the following
additional conditions and restrictions:
1.Permitting.
(a) All open-air pavilions must be
permitted in accordance with all
Florida Building Code and Village
Code requirements.
(b) Open-air pavilions meeting the
definition of a traditional chickee
hut are exempt from the Florida
Building Code but shall be subject
to consistency review by the village.
Consistency shall be demonstrated
through the issuance of a zoning
permit and shall require the submit-
tal of the following information:
(1) A survey that includes scaled
dimensions of the proposed
structure, including setbacks;
(2) Proof that the builder of the
chickee hut is a member of
either the Miccosukee Tribe of
Indians of Florida or the
Seminole Tribe of Florida (such
proof consisting of a copy of
the trial member's identifica-
tion card); and
(3) Drawings of the proposed
structure depicting, at a
minimum, the overall design,
dimensions, roof materials, and
height.
2.Dimensions. Open-air pavilions shall not
exceed two hundred (200) square feet in
floor area. The floor area shall be
measured from outside the support posts,
provided that the roof overhang does not
exceed three (3) feet from the support
posts. If the roof overhang exceeds three
(3) feet, the floor area shall consist of the
entire roofed area. For structures sup-
ported by a single-pole, i.e., umbrella
shape, the floor area shall be measured
from the drip line of the roof material.
3.Height. Open-air pavilions shall not
exceed twelve (12) feet in height or the
height of the principal building located
on the lot, whichever is more restrictive.
For sloped roofs, the height shall be
measured at the mean roof height.
4.Location and Setbacks.
(a) No open-air pavilion may be erected
within ten (10) feet of the side
property line. This side setback shall
be increased to twenty (20) feet for
corner lots.
(b) No open-air pavilion may be erected
within seven and one-half (7 ) feet
of the rear property line.
(c) No open-air pavilion or any portion
thereof may be erected between the
front line of the principal building
and the front property lot line, within
a utility or drainage easement, or
within a required landscape buffer.
5.Use restrictions.
(a) An open-air pavilion shall be used
only for private recreational activi-
ties as an accessory use to the
principal residential use and shall
not be used for habitation, for a tool
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room, storage room or workshop, or
for any commercial purpose
whatsoever.
(b) Open-air pavilions shall not be used
for storage of items of personal
property, including, but not limited
to, the following:
(1) Operable or inoperable vehicles,
boats, boat trailers, utility trail-
ers or similar items of personal
property;
(2) Building materials, lawn equip-
ment, tools or similar items;
and
(3) Ice boxes, refrigerators and
other types of food storage
facilities with the exception of
under-counter units.
(c) No gas, charcoal or propane grills,
stoves or other types of cooking
devices may be stored or utilized
within a traditional chickee hut.
6.Maintenance.Open-air pavilions shall be
maintained in good repair and in sound
structural condition. Painted or stained
surfaces shall be free of peeling paint,
mold and mildew and void of any evidence
of deterioration.
7.Design.
(a) Open-air pavilions, with the excep-
tion of traditional chickee huts,
pergolas and other structures with
only partial or slatted roofs, shall
incorporate the same types of build-
ing materials and be consistent with
the architectural theme or style of
the main or principal building.
(b) At the request of a property owner,
the community development direc-
tor may approve the use of different
building materials or alternate
architectural themes or styles when
such materials, themes or styles are
complementary to the main or
principal building.
(c) Should the community development
director deny the request for differ-
ent building materials or alternate
architectural themes or styles, a
property owner may appeal this deci-
sion to the planning commission by
submitting a written request for a
hearing to the community develop-
ment director within thirty (30)
calendar days of the date of the
determination. The appeal shall be
placed on the next available agenda
and the decision of the planning
commission shall be final, subject
only to judicial review by writ of
certiorari.
I.Mechanical equipment.All non roof-mounted
mechanical equipment shall be located behind
the front building face of the principal structure
in either the side yard or the rear yard. Such
equipment shall be located adjacent to the
principal structure whenever practicable,
provided, however, that all mechanical equip-
ment shall be located at least five (5) feet from
the side property line and at least seven and
one-half feet (7 ) from the rear property line.
J.Minimum landscaped area.
1. All single-family dwellings shall have a
minimum landscaped area of thirty
percent (30%).
2. All single-family dwellings (both one and
two story) shall provide a minimum
landscaped area of fifty percent (50%) in
the required twenty-five-foot (25') front
yard setback. Properties with frontage
along urban collector roads (Lighthouse
Drive and Prosperity Farms Road) shall
provide a minimum landscaped area of
forty percent (40%) in the required twenty-
five-foot (25') front yard setback. Proper-
ties having an irregular lot shape,
meaning a lot which is not close to
rectangular or square and in which the
width of the property at the front property
line is less than required by the underly-
ing zoning district, shall provide a
minimum landscaped area of twenty-five
percent (25%) in the required twenty-five-
foot (25') front yard setback.
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3. A property owner who meets the overall
minimum landscaped area requirement
set forth in subsection (1) above and who
does not meet the minimum landscaped
area requirement in the twenty-five-foot
(25') front yard setback set forth in subsec-
tion (2) above may request a waiver of up
to five percent (5%) of the minimum
required area by filing a request with the
Community Development Department.
The request shall be forwarded to the
Planning Commission for final action. A
property owner seeking such a waiver
shall be required to demonstrate to the
Planning Commission that he or she has
made a reasonable attempt to comply
with the required minimum landscaped
area within the front yard setback and
has mitigated any deficiency through the
installation of enhanced landscaping
materials, the use of permeable hard-
scape materials or some other acceptable
means.
For the purposes of this subsection, the term
minimum landscaped area shall mean a pervi-
ous landscaped area unencumbered by
structures, buildings, paved parking lots,
sidewalks, sports courts, pools, decks, or any
impervious surface. Landscape material shall
include, but not be limited to, grass, ground
covers, bushes, shrubs, hedges or similar plant-
ings, or decorative rock or bark. No landscape
material shall be used for parking. However,
pervious surfaces used for the parking of
recreational equipment in side and rear yards
shall be included in the calculation of the
minimum landscaped area.
With respect to building permits for renova-
tions of existing single-family dwellings, the
minimum landscaped area standards shall
apply only to the extent that the proposed
scope of work impacts the applicable standard.
K.Maximum driveway width in swale.The
total width of driveways from the edge of the
public roadway to the abutting privately-owned
property shall not exceed a total of thirty-two
feet (32') in width at the property line, excluding
flares. For lots with ninety (90) or more feet of
public roadway frontage, the total width of
driveways from the edge of the public roadway to
the abutting privately-owned private shall not
exceed a total of forty feet (40') in width at the
property line, excluding flares. Each side of a
flared driveway shall be no more than three feet
(3') wider than the rest of the driveway.
(Ord. No. 17-71; Ord. No. 9-85, § 2, 6-27-85; Ord.
No. 17-90, § 2, 6-28-90; Ord. No. 29-95, § 2,
9-28-95; Ord. No. 23-2003, § 5, 9-11-03; Ord. No.
2006-24, § 2.L.2, 11-9-06; Ord. No. 2009-04, § 4,
4-23-09; Ord. No. 2012-03, § 3, 3-22-12; Ord. No.
2014-06, § 2, 7-24-14; Ord. No. 2022-09, §§ 2, 3,
4-28-22; Ord. No. 2022-18, § 2, 10-27-22)
Sec. 45-28. R-2 multiple-family dwelling
district.
A.Uses permitted.Within any R-2 multiple-
family dwelling district, no building structure,
land or water shall be used, except for one (1) or
more of the following uses:
1. Any use permitted in the R-1 single-
family dwelling district.
2. Churches.
3. Multiple-family dwelling structures of
not more than four (4) dwelling units.
4. Detached fence storage areas.
5. Satellite dish antenna.
6. Community residential home of seven (7)
to fourteen (14) residents.
B.Building height regulations.No main build-
ing shall exceed two (2) stories or thirty (30) feet
in height, whichever be less.
C.Building site area regulations.
1. For single-family dwellings the same as
for the R-1 single-family dwelling district.
2. For two-family dwelling structures the
minimum lot or building site area shall
be eight thousand (8,000) square feet and
have a width of not less than seventy-five
(75) feet.
3. For dwelling structures having in excess
of two (2) dwelling units not less than
four thousand (4,000) square feet of lot
area shall be added to the site for each
dwelling unit in excess of two (2). No
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main building, however, shall occupy more
than thirty-five (35) percent of the site
area.
D.Yard space regulations.
1.Front yard.There shall be a front yard of
not less than twenty-five (25) feet
measured from the street line to the
front building line.
2.Rear yard.There shall be a rear yard of
not less than twenty (20) feet measured
from the rear building line to the rear lot
line.
3.Side yards.There shall be a side yard on
each side of the side building line of not
less than ten (10) feet. In the case of
corner lots, no building and no addition
to any building shall be erected or placed
nearer than twenty (20) feet to the side
street line of any such lot.
(a) For a distance of one (1) block on
streets intersecting U.S. [Highway
No.] 1, measured from the right-of-
way line of said U.S. [Highway No.]
1, side yards of at least twenty-five
(25) feet in depth shall be provided.
E.Floor area regulations.In multiple-family
dwelling structures, each dwelling unit having
one (1) bedroom shall have a minimum floor area
of seven hundred fifty (750) square feet. An
additional one hundred fifty (150) square feet of
floor area shall be required for each additional
bedroom provided.
F.Off-street parking regulations.
1. For single-family dwellings, the same as
for the R-1 single-family dwelling district.
2. For each multiple-family dwelling unit,
there shall be provided two (2) or more
parking spaces measuring at least nine
(9) feet by eighteen (18) feet (one hundred
sixty-two (162) square feet) each in
accordance with the following formula:
Two (2) such spaces shall be provided for
each dwelling unit containing not more
than two (2) bedrooms, and two and
one-half (2 ) of such spaces shall be
provided for each dwelling unit contain-
ing three (3) or more bedrooms, with the
provision that for an uneven number of
units, the fractional space result produced
by the application of such formula shall
count as a full space. (For examples: four
(4) dwelling units containing three (3) or
more bedrooms shall require ten (10)
off-street parking spaces; three (3) dwell-
ing units containing three (3) or more
bedrooms shall require eight (8) off-
street parking spaces.)
3. For churches, there shall be provided one
(1) off-street parking space measuring at
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ments for lot width and area as established by
this ordinance, the lands involved shall be
considered to be an undivided parcel for the
purposes of this ordinance, and no portion of said
parcel shall be used or sold which does not meet
lot width and area requirements established by
this ordinance, nor shall any division of the
parcel be made which leaves remaining any lot
with width or area below the requirements in
this ordinance.
(Ord. No. 12-75, § 1, 9-11-75; Ord. No. 2020-06,
§ 27, 9-24-20)
Sec. 45-63. Nonconforming uses of land.
Where, at the effective date of adoption or
amendment of this ordinance, lawful use of land
exists that is made no longer permissible under
the terms of this ordinance as enacted or amended,
and where such use involves no individual
structure with a replacement cost exceeding one
thousand dollars ($1,000.00), such use may be
continued, so long as it remains otherwise lawful,
subject to the following provisions:
(1) No such nonconforming use shall be
enlarged or increased, nor extended to
occupy a greater area of land than was
occupied at the effective date of adoption
or amendment of this ordinance; unless
such use is changed to a use permitted in
the district in which such use is located;
(2) No such nonconforming use shall be moved
in whole or in part to any other portion of
the lot or parcel occupied by such use at
the effective date of adoption or amend-
ment of this ordinance;
(3) If any such nonconforming use of land
ceases for any reason for a period of more
than ninety (90) consecutive days, any
subsequent use of such land shall conform
to the regulations specified by this
ordinance for the district in which such
land is located;
(4) No additional structure which does not
conform to the requirements of this
ordinance shall be erected in connection
with such nonconforming use of land.
(Ord. No. 12-75, § 1, 9-11-75)
Sec. 45-64. Nonconforming structures.
(1) Where a lawful structure exists at the
effective date of adoption or amendment of this
ordinance that could not be built under the
terms of this ordinance by reason of restrictions
on area, lot coverage, height, yards or other
characteristics of the structure or its location on
the lot, such structure may be continued so long
as it remains otherwise lawful subject to the
following provisions:
(a) No such structure may be enlarged or
altered in a way which increases its
nonconformity, but any structure or por-
tion thereof may be altered to decrease
its nonconformity;
(b) Should such structure be destroyed by
any means to an extent of more than fifty
(50) percent of its replacement cost at
time of destruction, as determined by the
village engineer or village building official,
it shall not be reconstructed except in
conformity with the provisions of this
ordinance; and
(c) Should such structure be moved for any
reason for any distance whatever, it shall
thereafter conform to the regulations of
the district in which it is located after it
is moved.
(2) The provisions set forth in subsection (a)
above are subject to the following exceptions:
(a) If an existing structure was legally permit-
ted on its site prior to changes in the
C-MU or C-NB zoning districts in 2020
but could not be built under the standards
in the new district, that existing structure
will continue to be deemed a lawful
structure and will not be subject to the
restrictions in paragraphs (1) and (2).
Such structure may be expanded later-
ally and/or vertically without complying
with all new requirements for building
frontages, build-to zones, and parking lot
setbacks, provided the expansion brings
the structure considerably closer to the
2020 requirements than the existing
structure.
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(b) In the event any residential structure is
damaged or destroyed by fire, flood, wind,
explosion, act of God or act of a public
enemy to an extent of more than fifty (50)
percent of its replacement cost at the
time of damage or destruction, as
determined by the village engineer or
village building official, the structure
shall be allowed to be replaced, restored
or reconstructed in accordance with all
validly issued permits and approvals
subject to current building code require-
ments. Any residential structure within
a coastal high hazard area or special
flood hazard area shall comply with the
provisions of chapter 12.5 of the village
code. Actual construction to replace,
restore or reconstruct the residential
structure shall be commenced within two
(2) years from the date of damage or
destruction or said structure shall revert
back to nonconforming status and shall
conform toall requirementsof thischapter.
The property owner may file a request
with the board of adjustment for an
additional one (1) year extension prior to
the expiration of the two (2) year period.
The decision of the board of adjustment
on an extension request shall be final,
subject to judicial review set forth in
section 21-21(h) of this code.
(Ord. No. 12-75, § 1, 9-11-75; Ord. No. 2020-06,
§ 27, 9-24-20; Ord. No. 2022-18, § 3, 10-27-22)
Sec. 45-65. Nonconforming uses of
structures or of structures and
premises in combination.
(1) If a lawful use involving individual
structures with a replacement cost of one thousand
dollars ($1,000.00) or more, or of structure and
premises in combination, exists at the effective
date of adoption or amendment of this ordinance,
that would not be allowed in the district under
the terms of this ordinance, the lawful use may
be continued so long as it remains otherwise
lawful, subject to the following provisions:
(a) No existing structure devoted to a use
not permitted by this ordinance in the
district in which it is located shall be
enlarged, extended, constructed,
reconstructed, moved or structurally
altered except in changing the use of the
structure to a use permitted in the district
in which it is located;
(b) Any nonconforming use may be extended
throughout any parts of a building which
were manifestly arranged or designed for
such use at the time of adoption or
amendment of this ordinance, but no
such use shall be extended to occupy any
land outside such building;
(c) Any structure, or structure and land in
combination, in or on which a nonconform-
ing use is superseded by a permitted use,
shall thereafter conform to the regula-
tions for the district in which such
structure is located, and the nonconform-
ing use may not thereafter be resumed;
(d) When a nonconforming use of a structure,
or structure and premises in combina-
tion, is discontinued or abandoned for six
(6) consecutive months or for eighteen
(18) months during any three-year period
(except when government action impedes
access to the premises), the structure, or
structure and premises in combination,
shall not thereafter be used except in
conformance with the regulations of the
district in which it is located;
(e) Where nonconforming use status applies
to a structure and premises in combina-
tion, removal or destruction of the
structure shall eliminate the nonconform-
ing status of the land. Destruction for
the purpose of this subsection is defined
as damage to an extent of more than fifty
(50) percent of the replacement cost at
time of destruction.
(2) If an existing use of a structure was
legally permitted on its site prior to changes in
the C-MU, C-3, or C-NB zoning districts in 2020
but is not listed as a permitted use in the new
district, that existing use will continue to be
deemed a permitted use and will not be subject
to the restrictions in section 45-65(1)(a)-(c) and
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45-65(1)e. Notwithstanding the foregoing, these
uses will not be allowed to continue if discontinued
or abandoned as defined by 45-65(1)(d).
(3) Nonconformities not involving the use of a
principal structure, e.g., open storage, building
supplies, vehicle, mobile home, implement and
machinery storage, signs, billboards, junkyards,
commercial animal yards and the like, shall be
discontinued within two (2) years of the effective
date of this ordinance or amendment.
(Ord. No. 12-75, § 1, 9-11-75; Ord. No. 2020-06,
§ 27, 9-24-20)
Sec. 45-66. Repairs and maintenance.
(1) On any building devoted in whole or in
part to any nonconforming use, work may be
done in any period of twelve (12) consecutive
months on ordinary repairs, or on repair or
replacement of nonbearing walls, fixtures, wiring
or plumbing, to an extent not exceeding ten (10)
percent of the current replacement value of the
building, provided that the cubic content of the
building as it existed at the time of passage or
amendment of this ordinance shall not be
increased.
(2) Nothing in this ordinance shall be deemed
to prevent the strengthening or restoring to a
safe condition of any building or part thereof
declared to be unsafe by any official charged
with protecting the public safety, upon order of
such official.
(Ord. No. 12-75, § 1, 9-11-75)
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2638.1Supp. No. 82
Ord. No.
Adoption
Date Section
Section
this Code
3 5-69—5-71
Added 5-72
5-73
5-81—5-86
4 Rpld 7-1
Rnbd 7-2
as 7-1
Rnbd 7-3
as 7-2
7-16—7-20
2019-08 8- 8-19 2 App. C, §§ 45-24,
45-25
2019-11 10-24-19 2 2-159(b)
2-161(a)
2-163(a)
Added 2-170.1—2-170.3
3 Rnbd 2-170.01—2-170.15
as 2-170.5—2-170.20
2020-02 7- 9-20 2 14-81, 14-82
3 Added 14-91—14-102
2020-04 8-13-20 2 Added 1-11
2020-06 9-24-20 2 6-1
6-35, 6-36
6-56—6-60
3 17-3(a)
4 19-99
5 21-3
5 21-11, 21-12
6 Rpld 27-31—27-41
27-59—27-67
27-18(b)
7 App. A, § I
App. A, §§ III, IV
8 36-18—36-19
36-29
9 App. C, § 45-2
10 App. C, § 45-4
11—13 App. C, § 45-16—45-
16.2
14 App. C, § 45-19
15 App. C, § 45-31
16 Rpld App. C, § 45-31.1
17 Rpld App. C, § 45-32
18 App. C, § 45-32.1
19, 20 App. C, § 45-33,
45-34
21—24 App. C, § 45-35.1—
45-36
25 App. C, § 45-38
26 App. C, § 45-49,
45-50
Added App. C, § 45-51
27 App. C, § 45-60—
45-62
App. C, § 45-64,
45-65
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2897Supp. No. 82
Ord. No.
Adoption
Date Section
Section
this Code
28 Added App. C, §§ 45-81—
45-94
29 App. C, § 45-20,
45-21
45-34.1
45-35.2
App. C, § 45-36
App. C, § 45-90
2020-21 11-12-20 2 Added 20-10
2020-22 12-10-20 2 2-146.1
2-156(h)
2021-01 1-14-21 2, 3 18-35, 18-35.1
2021-02 1-28-21 2 6-17
2021-05 3-25-21 2 10-5(a)
2021-06 4-22-21 2 Added 18-45, 18-46
2021-07 6-10-21 2 Added 19-13
2021-09 7- 8-21 2 Added 30-1—30-12
2021-13 9- 8-21 2 10-5(a)
2021-14 9- 8-21 2 Added App, C, § 45-40
2021-15 9- 8-21 2 App. C, § 45-36
R.(2)c.
2021-18 9-23-21 2 Rpld 14-26—14-29
Rnbd 14-30, 14-31
as 14-26, 14-27
14-26(2), (3)
14-27(b)(1), (c),
(d)(2), (3)
2021-19 11-18-21 2 Rpld 2-251—2-256
Added 2-251—2-257
2021-20 11-18-21 2 Added 20-11
2022-01 1-13-22 2 App. C, § 45-2
3 Added App. C, § 45-36 V.
2022-02 1-13-22 2 Rpld 18-36—18-38
Added 18-36—18-39
3 Rpld 5-38
2022-03 1-27-22 2 2-1(f)(7)
Rpld 2-1(f)(8)
2022-05 4-14-22 2 Rpld 19-200—19-206
Rpld 19-200—19-204
2022-06 4-14-22 2 2-159(b)
2-161(a)(1)
2-163(a)(1)
2022-07 4-14-22 2 18-34.1(b)
2022-09 4-28-22 2 Added 21-70(a)(8)
21-70(c)
2 App. C, § 45-2
3 App. C, § 45-27 B.
Added App. C, § 45-27 H.,
I.
2022-10 5-12-22 2 App. C, § 45-2
2022-11 5-26-22 2 18-33
Added 18-34(g)
2022-12 7-14-22 2 30-6(c)
2022-13 7-14-22 2 20-31
2022-14 9- 8-22 2 Rpld 8-31
2022-17 9-22-22 2 2-159(b)
2-161(a)(1)
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2898Supp. No. 82
Ord. No.
Adoption
Date Section
Section
this Code
2-163(a)(1), (b), (c)
2022-18 10-27-22 2 App. C, § 45-27 D.
Added App. C, § 45-27 E.,
F.
Rnbd App. C, § 45-27
E.—I.
as App. C, § 45-27
G.—K.
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COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DEPART-
MENT
Buildings
Appearance code
Site plan and appearance review
Follow-up by community develop-
ment department . . . . . . . . . . 6-60
Director's duties. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-111
Divisions
Code compliance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-112(2)
Permits and inspections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-112(1)
Planning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-112(3)
COMPUTATION OF TIME
Definitions and rules of construction. . . . . 1-2
CONCURRENCY MANAGEMENT
Provisions enumerated. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21-41 et seq.
See: PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT
CONTRACTS AND AGREEMENTS
Nuisances
Chronic nuisance property code
Refusal to sign or violation of agree-
ment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14-96
Pensions and retirement
ICMA defined contribution pension plan
Administrative services agreement
and adoption agreements . . . . . 2-170.19
Planning and development
Concurrency management
Proportionate fair-share program
Proportionate fair-share agree-
ments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21-48(h)
Social security
Agreement authorized. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-138
COUNCIL. See: VILLAGE COUNCIL
COUNTRY CLUB
Finances
Delinquent accounts; penalties. . . . . . . . 9-32
Golf advisory board. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-16 et seq.
See: GOLF ADVISORY BOARD
Premises
Disfiguration and/or removal of build-
ing or other property . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-1(1)
Enforcement. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-2
Hours . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-1(2)
Signs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-2
Violations and penalties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-2
COUNTY
Definitions and rules of construction. . . . . 1-2
COURTS
Court cost
Assessment of additional court costs for
criminal justice education
expenditures. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-9
D
DECALS
Combat Auto Theft (CAT) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18-19
DEPARTMENTS AND OTHER AGENCIES
OF VILLAGE
Administrative code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-39 et seq.
See: ADMINISTRATIVE CODE
Appearance board. See: APPEARANCE
PLAN (Appendix A)
Audit committee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-56 et seq.
See: AUDITS
Boards and committees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-1
Business advisory board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17-71 et seq.
See: BUSINESS ADVISORY BOARD
Code enforcement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-171 et seq.
Community development department . . . . 2-111 et seq.
See: COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
DEPARTMENT
Environmental committee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24-61 et seq.
See: STREETS, SIDEWALKS AND
PUBLIC PLACES
Finance, department of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-59
See: FINANCES
Fire and police retirement board of trustees 2-164 et seq.
See: PENSIONS AND RETIREMENT
Fire rescue department . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-81 et seq.
See: FIRE RESCUE DEPARTMENT
General employees retirement board. . . . . 2-151 et seq.
See: PENSIONS AND RETIREMENT
Golf advisory board. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-16 et seq.
See: GOLF ADVISORY BOARD
Law enforcement, department of (police
department). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-75, 2-76
See: LAW ENFORCEMENT, DEPART-
MENT OF (POLICE DEPART-
MENT)
Library board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16-16 et seq.
Library, department of. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-93
Planning and development board of adjust-
ment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21-21
Planning commission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21-11, 21-12
Public works, department of. . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-84, 2-85
See: PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT
Records, department of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-67 et seq.
See: DOCUMENT AND PUBLIC
RECORDS
Recreation department. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-110
Recreation advisory board . . . . . . . . . . . . 20-61 et seq.
See: PARKS, PLAYGROUNDS AND
RECREATION
Reserve police force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23-42 et seq.
See: POLICE
Village council. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-16 et seq.
Waterways board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-102 et seq.
DEVELOPMENTS. See: PLANNING AND
DEVELOPMENT
CODE INDEX
Section Section
2941Supp. No. 82
DISABLED AND HANDICAPPED PERSONS
Applicability of dog prohibitions to guide
and service dogs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-27(d)
Motor vehicles and traffic
Stopping, standing and parking
Parking spaces for the physically
disabled. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18-39
DISTRICTS
Zoning regulations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45-16 et seq.
See: ZONING (Appendix C)
DISTURBANCES. See: CIVIL DISORDERS
AND DISTURBANCES
DOCKS. See: BOATS, DOCKS AND
WATERWAYS
DOCUMENTS AND PUBLIC RECORDS
Department of records
Deputy village clerk
Appointment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-68
Duties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-69
Village clerk; duties
Election records, keeping. . . . . . . . . . . 2-67(5)
Expiration of term, notice of. . . . . . . . 2-67(7)
Official seal, keeping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-67(8)
Record ordinances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-67(3)
Village council
Keep records of council . . . . . . . . . . 2-67(2)
Public council action . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-67(4)
Serve as clerk of council . . . . . . . . . 2-67(1)
Vital statistics, keeping . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-67(6)
Village clerk and deputy village clerk. See
herein: Department of Records
DOGS
Regulations enumerated . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-24 et seq.
See: ANIMALS AND FOWL
DRAINAGE
Property maintenance standards
Exterior of structures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15-3
Roofs and drainage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15-3(g)
Stormwater management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21-61 et seq.
See: STORMWATER MANAGEMENT
Subdivision design standards re ease-
ments and rights-of-way . . . . . . . . . . . 36-22(b)
Zoning; surface water management
C-3 Regional Business District. . . . . . . . 45-34.1(8)
DROUGHT
Mandatory year-round landscape irriga-
tion conservation measures . . . . . . . . 19-202 et seq.
See: LANDSCAPING
E
ELECTIONS
Candidacy
Candidates for office; qualifying. . . . . . . 10-5
Preservation of notice of candidacy. . . . 10-6
Conduct of elections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-6
ELECTIONS (Cont'd.)
Early voting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-7
General elections, notice of. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-3
Polling locations
Designated . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-76
Special elections
Notice of. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-4
When held. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-2
State laws
Applicable state laws adopted. . . . . . . . . 10-1
Voting machines may be used; state law
applicable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-7
Village clerk, duties re keeping election
records. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-67(5)
Voting machines may be used; state law
applicable. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-7
ELECTRICAL CODE
Amendments, corrections, additions . . . . . 11-12
Code enforcement, applicability re. . . . . . . 2-173
EMERGENCIES
Ambulances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17-50, 17-51
Communications services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29-5
Emergency management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-1 et seq.
See: EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT
Emergency medical services
Fees
Billing and collection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.5-23
Establishment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.5-22
Generally. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.5-21
Fire rescue department . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-81 et seq.
See: FIRE RESCUE DEPARTMENT
EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT
Applicability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-2
Civil disorders and disturbances
Declaration of a state of emergency . . . 8-22
Mayor designated local authority for
preservation of public peace . . . . . 8-21
Declaration of a state of emergency. . . . . . 8-5
Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-1
Emergency management structure. . . . . . . 8-3
Powers, duties and responsibilities . . . . . . 8-4
Termination of a state of emergency . . . . . 8-6
EMPLOYEES. See: OFFICERS AND
EMPLOYEES
ENCLOSURES. See: FENCES, WALLS,
HEDGES AND ENCLOSURES
ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS
Environmental committee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24-61 et seq.
See: STREETS, SIDEWALKS AND
PUBLIC PLACES
EROSION CONTROL STRUCTURES
Construction regulations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-93 et seq.
See: BOATS, DOCKS AND
WATERWAYS
NORTH PALM BEACH CODE
Section Section
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EXCAVATIONS
Fill permits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-1 et seq.
See: FILL PERMITS
Stormwater management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21-61 et seq.
See: STORMWATER MANAGEMENT
EXCRETA
Dog waste, removal provisions re . . . . . . . . 4-31, 4-32
F
FENCES, WALLS, HEDGES AND
ENCLOSURES
Landscaping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45-81 et seq.
See: ZONING (Appendix C)
Swimming pool requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . 25-5
FERTILIZER-FRIENDLY USE ORDINANCE
Applicability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27-75
Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27-72
Enforcement; penalties; appeals . . . . . . . . . 27-84
Appeals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27-84(d)
Enforcement. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27-84(a)
Disposition of penalty funds . . . . . . . . . . 27-84(c)
Penalties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27-84(b)
Exemptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27-81
Fertilizer
Application practices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27-79
Content and application rates. . . . . . . . . 27-78
Free zones. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27-77
Findings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27-73
Licensing of commercial applicators . . . . . 27-83
Management of grass clippings and vegeta-
tive matter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27-80
Purpose and intent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27-74
Timing of fertilizer application . . . . . . . . . . 27-76
Title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27-71
Training . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27-82
FILL PERMITS
Code enforcement, applicability re. . . . . . . 2-173
Filling operations beyond property line;
prohibited. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-1
Filling permit
Application fees. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-19
Application; issuance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-18
Expiration date; renewal; revocation . . 7-20
Public hearing prerequisite to
consideration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-17
Required . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-16
Unlawful fill; removal. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-2
FINANCES
Budget procedures. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-2
Country club
Delinquent accounts; penalties. . . . . . . . 9-32
Court cost
Assessment of additional court costs for
criminal justice education
expenditures. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-9
FINANCES (Cont'd.)
Department of finance
Finance director; duties
Accounts of receipts and expenditures 2-59(8)
Budget duties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-59(2)
Cancellation of evidences of old debt 2-59(9)
Collect moneys and fees due village. 2-59(12)
Examine books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-59(6)
Financial statements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-59(3)
Fiscal supervision over officers . . . . . 2-59(5)
Keep accounts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-59(4)
Pay village employees. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-59(11)
Prescribe form. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-59(1)
Receive and disburse moneys. . . . . . . 2-59(10)
Responsibility for proceeds of bonds 2-59(7)
Investment policy of the village . . . . . . . . . 2-4
Pensions and retirement. See also that
subject
Length of service award plan for
volunteer firefighters. . . . . . . . . . . . 2-170 et seq.
Pension and certain other benefits for
fire and police employees . . . . . . . . 2-159 et seq.
Pension and certain other benefits for
general employees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-146 et seq.
Planning and development; filing fees and
cost for changes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21-1, 21-2
Social security. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-136 et seq.
See: SOCIAL SECURITY
Taxation. See that subject
Village manager. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-118
FINES, FORFEITURES AND OTHER
PENALTIES
Code enforcement; fines and liens . . . . . . . 2-178
Code of ordinances, provisions re general
penalty, continuing violations, and
prosecution costs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-8
Motor vehicles and traffic
Stopping, standing and parking
Fine schedule . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18-38
Parking citation procedure . . . . . . . . . 18-37
Pension and certain other benefits for fire
and police employees
Board of trustees for; forfeiture of
membership on board for absentee-
ism. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-164(b)
Contributions; forfeitures. . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-163(d)
FIRE PREVENTION AND PROTECTION
Barbecue grills and similar cooking devices 19-10
Code enforcement, applicability re. . . . . . . 2-173
Fire rescue department . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-81 et seq.
See: FIRE RESCUE DEPARTMENT
Florida fire prevention code
Adopted by reference. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12-16
Annual fire inspection and establish-
ment of fee schedule . . . . . . . . . . . . 12-17
Review of construction plans and fire
suppression, detection and alarm
systems and establishment of fee
schedule. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12-18
CODE INDEX
Section Section
2943Supp. No. 82
FIRE PREVENTION AND PROTECTION
(Cont'd.)
Hazardous substances, cost recovery for
cleanup, abatement and removal of
Authority of public safety fire rescue
department . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12-102
Cost reimbursement to village . . . . . . . . 12-103
Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12-101
Exceptions for fire suppression services 12-105
Late fee for failure to reimbursement . 12-106
Records. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12-104
Remedies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12-107
Pension and certain other benefits for fire
and police employees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-159 et seq.
See: PENSIONS AND RETIREMENT
Volunteer firefighters, length of service
award plan for . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-170 et seq.
See: PENSIONS AND RETIREMENT
FIRE RESCUE DEPARTMENT
Composition. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-83
Emergency medical services. . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.5-21 et seq.
See: EMERGENCIES
Fire chief's duties. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-81
Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-82
Disaster response . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-82(6)
Emergency medical services . . . . . . . . . . 2-82(5)
Fire fighting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-82(3)
Fire prevention . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-82(4)
Maintain equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-82(2)
Report losses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-82(1)
Interference with police and fire rescue
department telephone trunk lines
prohibited. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-215
FIREARMS AND WEAPONS
Concealed weapons, carrying . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-184
Forfeiture; disposition. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-186
Possession . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-183
Sales restricted
Record of sales required . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-185(c)
Specified weapons, display and sale of. 19-185(b)
Switchblade knives prohibited . . . . . . . . 19-185(a)
Stench bombs prohibited. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-82
See: STENCH BOMBS
FLOOD DAMAGE PREVENTION
Administration
General provisions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.5-1
Coordination with the Florida Build-
ing Code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.5-1(d)
Disclaimer of liability. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.5-1(f)
Intent. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.5-1(c)
Scope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.5-1(b)
Title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.5-1(a)
Warning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.5-1(e)
Applicability. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.5-2
Abrogation and greater restrictions. 12.5-2(f)
Areas to which chapter applies . . . . . 12.5-2(b)
Basis for establishing flood hazard
areas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.5-2(c)
FLOOD DAMAGE PREVENTION (Cont'd.)
General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.5-2(a)
Interpretation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.5-2(g)
Other laws . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.5-2(e)
Submission of additional data to
establish flood hazard areas. . . 12.5-2(d)
Duties and powers of the floodplain
administrator. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.5-3
Applications and permits. . . . . . . . . . . 12.5-3(c)
Designation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.5-3(a)
Floodplain management records . . . . 12.5-3(i)
General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.5-3(b)
Inspections. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.5-3(g)
Modifications of the strict applica-
tion of the requirements of the
Florida Building Code . . . . . . . . 12.5-3(e)
Notices and orders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.5-3(f)
Other duties of the Floodplain
Administrator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.5-3(h)
Substantial improvement and
substantial damage determina-
tions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.5-3(d)
Inspections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.5-6
Buildings, structures and facilities
exempt from the Florida Build-
ing Code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.5-5(c)
Final inspection. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.5-5(e)
Lowest floor inspection . . . . . . . . . . 12.5-5(d)
Development other than buildings
and structures. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.5-5(b)
General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.5-5(a)
Manufactured homes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.5-5(f)
Permits. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.5-4
Application for a permit or approval 12.5-4(d)
Buildings, structures and facilities
exempt from the Florida Build-
ing Code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.5-4(c)
Expiration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.5-4(f)
Floodplain development permits or
approvals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.5-4(b)
Other permits required . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.5-4(h)
Permits required . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.5-4(a)
Suspension or revocation. . . . . . . . . . . 12.5-4(g)
Validity of permit or approval . . . . . . 12.5-4(e)
Site plans and construction documents 12.5-5
Additional analyses and certifica-
tions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.5-5(c)
Information for development in flood
hazard areas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.5-5(a)
Information in flood hazard areas
without base flood elevations. . 12.5-5(b)
Submission of additional data . . . . . . 12.5-5(d)
NORTH PALM BEACH CODE
Section Section
2944Supp. No. 82
NUISANCES (Cont'd.)
Animals creating nuisances . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-12
Chronic nuisance property code
Abatement of chronic nuisances;
apportionment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14-98
Change in title to chronic nuisance
property. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14-101
Construction and application . . . . . . . . . 14-93
Construction of article. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14-102
Declaration of chronic nuisance; action
plan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14-95
Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14-92
Establishment of costs; billing of costs;
assessment of lien. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14-99
Hearing before the special magistrate;
entry of chronic nuisance order . . 14-97
Method of notice; construction . . . . . . . . 14-100
Purpose and intent. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14-91
Refusal to sign or violation of agree-
ment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14-96
Separate occurrences. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14-94
False alarms
Excessive false alarms declared public
nuisance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-212
Panhandling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-12
Rabid animals declared nuisance . . . . . . . . 4-42
NUMBER
Definitions and rules of construction. . . . . 1-2
O
OATH, AFFIRMATION, SWEAR OR SWORN
Administrative code, provisions re oaths
of office . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-41
Definitions and rules of construction. . . . . 1-2
General employees retirement board;oaths
of office . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-154
Reserve police force; oath required. . . . . . . 23-47
OBSCENITY. See: INDECENCY AND
OBSCENITY
OBSTRUCTIONS
Passageways, obstructing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-47
OFFENSES
Balloons and sky lanterns. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-13
Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-1
Enumerated. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-3 et seq.
See also specific offenses as indexed
State misdemeanors adopted . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-2
OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES
Administrative code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-39 et seq.
See: ADMINISTRATIVE CODE
Chief of police's duties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-75
Definitions and rules of construction. . . . . 1-2
Elections. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-1 et seq.
See: ELECTIONS
Finance director. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-59
Fire chief's duties. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-81
OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES (Cont'd.)
Golf advisory board. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-16 et seq.
See: GOLF ADVISORY BOARD
Impersonating village official. . . . . . . . . . . . 19-8
Librarian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-93
Mayor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-18, 8-16
Pensions and retirement. See also that
subject
Length of service award plan for
volunteer firefighters. . . . . . . . . . . . 2-170 et seq.
Pension and certain other benefits for
fire and police employees . . . . . . . . 2-159 et seq.
Pension and certain other benefits for
general employees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-146 et seq.
Social security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-136 et seq.
Police
Reserve force
Appointment to service by chief of
police . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23-45
Public works director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-84
Recreation director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-110
Social security. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-136 et seq.
See: SOCIAL SECURITY
Village clerk and deputy village clerk. . . . 2-67 et seq.
See: DOCUMENTS AND PUBLIC
RECORDS
Village manager. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-115 et seq.
See: VILLAGE MANAGER
OFFICIAL TIME
Definitions and rules of construction. . . . . 1-2
OPEN SPACES. See: YARDS AND OPEN
SPACES
ORDINANCES. See: CODE OF
ORDINANCES
OWNER
Definitions and rules of construction. . . . . 1-2
P
PALM BEACH COUNTY. See: COUNTY
PARKING
Boat launching area
Vehicle/trailer parking in designated
areas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-35
Parks; designated parking areas. . . . . . . . . 20-5(6)
Stopping, standing and parking . . . . . . . . . 18-34 et seq.
See: MOTOR VEHICLES AND TRAF-
FIC
Zoning, provisions re off-street parking . . 45-27 et seq.
See: ZONING (Appendix C)
PARKS, PLAYGROUNDS AND
RECREATION
Alcoholic beverages
Consumption on playgrounds and public
parks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-3
Bicycles
Operation in safe manner, etc. . . . . . . . . 20-6(2)
CODE INDEX
Section Section
2949Supp. No. 82
PARKS, PLAYGROUNDS AND
RECREATION (Cont'd.)
Operation prohibited in certain areas . 20-6(1)
Boat launching areas
Vehicle/trailer parking in designated
areas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-35
Buildings or structure, erecting . . . . . . . . . 20-3
Commercial activities prohibited . . . . . . . . 20-10
Department of recreation
Director's duties
Conduct community activity. . . . . . . . 2-110(2)
Supervise recreation areas . . . . . . . . . 2-110(1)
Ejectment of violators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20-8
Enforcement of provisions, responsibility. 20-7
Fires and grills prohibited . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20-11
Golf advisory board. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-16 et seq.
See: GOLF ADVISORY BOARD
Hours regulated . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20-1
Meetings and gatherings
Liability for loss or injury . . . . . . . . . . . . 20-23
Permit
Appeal from refusal to issue. . . . . . . . 20-35
Application. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20-33
Form . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20-32
Issuance standards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20-34
Required. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20-31
Revocation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20-36
Rules and regulations, permittee bound
by. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20-22
Property used to violate provisions,
confiscation of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20-9
Recreation advisory board
Compensation; terms. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20-62
Created . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20-61
Duties. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20-63
Recreational vehicles and trailers; park-
ing on residential property restricted
in R-1 and R-2 residential zoning
districts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18-35.1
Restrooms, failure to cooperate in keeping
neat or sanitary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20-2
Traffic
Enforcement of traffic regulations. . . . . 20-5(2)
Operation confined to roads. . . . . . . . . . . 20-5(5)
Parking areas designated. . . . . . . . . . . . . 20-5(6)
Signs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20-5(3)
Speed of vehicles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20-5(4)
State motor vehicle laws. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20-5(1)
Trees
Climbing trees, etc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20-4
Use by public only. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20-1
PEDDLERS AND SOLICITORS
Age restrictions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17-91
Appeal. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17-93
Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17-82
Enforcement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17-94
Granting or rejecting application . . . . . . . . 17-85
License
Application for. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17-84
PEDDLERS AND SOLICITORS (Cont'd.)
Limitation on hours for peddling or solicita-
tion. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17-88
Notice by property owners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17-90
Permit
Application for. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17-84
Display of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17-87
Not transferable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17-86
Required . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17-83
Revocation of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17-92
Prohibited practices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17-89
Purpose. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17-81
PENALTIES. See: FINES, FORFEITURES
AND OTHER PENALTIES
PENSIONS AND RETIREMENT
ICMA defined contribution pension plan
Administrative services agreement and
adoption agreements . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-170.19
Creation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-170.17
Effective date. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-170.20
Vesting period . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-170.18
Length of service award plan for volunteer
firefighters
Benefit formula . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-170.11
Contact person. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-170.15
Effective date. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-170.8
Eligibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-170.9
Entitlement age. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-170.10
Plan, name of. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-170.7
Point system. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-170.16
Preretirement death benefit . . . . . . . . . . 2-170.12
Purpose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-170.5
Sponsor, name of. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-170.6
Trustee and contact person . . . . . . . . . . . 2-170.15
Vesting provisions, schedule of. . . . . . . . 2-170.13
Village contributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-170.14
Pension and certain other benefits for fire
and police employees
Benefit amounts
401(a)(9) Required Distributions (i)
Cost of living. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-161(g)
Disability retirement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-161(e)
Early retirement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-161(b)
Formula . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-161(c)
Limitation on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-161(h)
Normal retirement benefit . . . . . . . . . 2-161(a)
Preretirement death . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-161(d)
Termination benefits and vesting . . . 2-161(f)
Board of trustees
Bring and defend lawsuits
Powers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-164(e)
Composition. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-164(a)
Forfeiture of membership on board
for absenteeism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-164(b)
Meetings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-164(d)
Power and authority . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-166
Reports and records . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-164(c)
Contributions
Employer contributions . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-163(c)
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PENSIONS AND RETIREMENT (Cont'd.)
Forfeitures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-163(d)
Member. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-163(a)
State contributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-163(b)
Creation of trust and definitions . . . . . . 2-159
Creation of trust . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-159(a)
Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-159(b)
Deferred option benefit plan (DROP) . . 2-170.1
Defined contribution component . . . . . . 2-170.3
Direct transfers of eligible rollover
distribution. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-170
Discharged members . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-169(a)
False, misleading statements made to
obtain retirement benefits
prohibited . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-169(f)
Incompetents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-169(d)
Insurance premium tax revenue, use of 2-170.2
Insurers, tax on. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-167
Membership
Application for membership . . . . . . . . 2-160(b)
Buy-back of previous service . . . . . . . 2-160(d)
Changes in designation of beneficiary 2-160(c)
Conditions of eligibility . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-160(a)
Nonassignability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-169(b)
Number and gender . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-169(e)
Optional forms of benefits . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-162
Pension validity. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-169(c)
Prior service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-165
Repeal or termination of plan. . . . . . . . . 2-168
Tax on insurers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-167
Pension and certain other benefits for
general employees
Bargaining unit employees . . . . . . . . . . . 2-156(e)
Benefit amounts and eligibility
Early retirement
Age . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-148(d)(1)
Benefit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-148(d)(2)
Late retirement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-148(c)
Preretirement death . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-148(e)
Refund of contribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-148(g)
Retirement benefit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-148(b)
Retirement date . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-148(a)
Termination of employment . . . . . . . . 2-148(f)
Contributions
Member contributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-150(b)
Other contributions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-150(c)
Village contributions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-150(a)
Cost of living adjustment . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-158
Creation of plan and trust . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-146.1
Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-146
Discharged members . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-156(a)
Distribution of Benefits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-156(h)
Incompetence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-156(d)
Maximum Pension
Additional Limitation on Pension
Benefits. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-156(f)(2)
Section 415(b) Internal Revenue Code
Limits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-156(f)(1)
Membership
Application for membership . . . . . . . . 2-147(b)
PENSIONS AND RETIREMENT (Cont'd.)
Change in designation of beneficiary 2-147(c)
Conditions of eligibility . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-147(a)
Nonassignability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-156(b)
Normal and optional forms of benefits. 2-149
Pension validity. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-156(c)
Repeal or termination of system . . . . . . 2-155
Retirement board
Additional rules and regulations
authorized . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-152
Established . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-151
Investing funds; custodian of securi-
ties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-153
Oaths of office; meetings; quorum. . . 2-154
Rollovers, direct transfers of eligible
rollover distribution
Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-157(b)
General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-157(a)
Mandatory distributions . . . . . . . . . . . 2-157(d)
Rollovers from qualified plans. . . . . . 2-157(c)
Section 401(a)(17) Limitation on
Compensation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-156(g)
Social security. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-136 et seq.
See: SOCIAL SECURITY
Volunteer firefighters, length of service
award plan for. See herein: Length of
Service Award Plan for Volunteer
Firefighters
PERMITS. See: LICENSES AND PERMITS
PERSON
Definitions and rules of construction. . . . . 1-2
PIERS
Docks and piers, construction require-
ments re . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-81 et seq.
See: BOATS, DOCKS AND
WATERWAYS
PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT
Appearance plan (Appendix A). See that
subject
Archaeological site protection regulations 21-101 et seq.
See: ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE
PROTECTION
Board of adjustment
Composition; conduct generally
Administrative orders, review of. . . . 21-21(d)
Created . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21-21(a)
Decision of administrative official,
appeals to board from. . . . . . . . . 21-21(e)
Hearing of appeals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21-21(g)
Judicial review of decisions of board 21-21(h)
Membership. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21-21(b)
Powers and duties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21-21(c)
Stay of work and proceedings on
appeal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21-21(f)
Community development department
Planning division . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-112(3)
Comprehensive plan
Adoption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21-01
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PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT (Cont'd.)
Filing fees and costs for changes
Enactment and authority . . . . . . . . . . 21-1(a)
Fee; application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21-1(c)
Jurisdiction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21-1(b)
Planning commission, advise of. . . . . 21-1(d)
Concurrency management
Adequate public facilities available to
service development. . . . . . . . . . . . . 21-45
Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21-42
Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21-44
Intent and purpose
Comprehensive plan, implementa-
tion of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21-43(a)
Management/monitoring and regula-
tory program, establishment of 21-43(b)
Minimum requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . 21-43(c)
Management and monitoring program
Amendments to CIE and annual
budget, recommendations on . . 21-46(c)
Annual public facilities update report 21-46(b)
Generally . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21-46(a)
Proportionate fair-share program
Applicability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21-48(b)
Application process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21-48(e)
Appropriation of fair-share revenues 21-48(i)
Determining proportionate fair-share
obligation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21-48(f)
General requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21-48(c)
Impact fee credit for proportionate
fair-share mitigation. . . . . . . . . . 21-48(g)
Intergovernmental coordination . . . . 21-48(d)
Proportionate fair-share agreements 21-48(h)
Purpose and intent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21-48(a)
Regulatory program
Exemptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21-47(b)
Generally . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21-47(a)
Public facility adequacy, review to
determine. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21-47(c)
Short title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21-41
Filing fees and costs for voluntary annexa-
tion of land
Enactment and authority. . . . . . . . . . . . . 21-2(a)
Fees: application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21-2(c)
Jurisdiction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21-2(b)
Planning commission, advice of . . . . . . . 21-2(d)
Public notice requirements for develop-
ment applications and approvals
Generally. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21-3(a)
Mailing requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21-3(b)
Newspaper requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21-3(d)
Posting requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21-3(c)
Stormwater management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21-61 et seq.
See: STORMWATER MANAGEMENT
Subdivision regulations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36-1 et seq.
See: SUBDIVISIONS (Appendix B)
Zoning regulations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45-1 et seq.
See: ZONING (Appendix C)
PLANNING COMMISSION
Composition; conduct generally
Created . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21-11(a)
Meetings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21-11(c)
Membership; terms. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21-11(b)
Powers and duties. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21-11(d)
Zoning ordinances, changes to. . . . . . . . . . . 21-12
PLATS. See: SURVEYS, MAPS AND PLATS
PLAYGROUNDS. See: PARKS,
PLAYGROUNDS AND RECREATION
POLICE
Court cost
Assessment of additional court costs for
criminal justice education
expenditures. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-9
Department of law enforcement (police
department). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-75, 2-76
See: LAW ENFORCEMENT, DEPART-
MENT OF (POLICE DEPART-
MENT)
Impersonating police officer . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-8
Interference with police and fire rescue
department telephone trunk lines
prohibited. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-215
Oaths of office
Members of police department, form of
oath. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-41(c)
Persons required to take oath of office. 2-41(a)(2)
Pension and certain other benefits for fire
and police employees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-159 et seq.
See: PENSIONS AND RETIREMENT
Reserve force
Application for membership . . . . . . . . . . 23-43
Appointment to service by chief of police 23-45
Compensation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23-50
Created; purpose. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23-42
Oath required . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23-47
Powers and duties. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23-48
Reserve list to be maintained . . . . . . . . . 23-44
Resignation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23-46
Uniforms and insignia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23-49
POLLUTION
Smoke, dust, odors, liquids, etc. . . . . . . . . . 19-9
Stormwater management provisions re pol-
lutant loads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21-67
Waterways, pollution of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-13
Wellfield protection
Regulation of business activities with
potential to contaminate land and
water resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-221
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Nonconforming uses
Adult entertainment establishments . . 45-20(7)
Architectural elements
Architectural elements. . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-5
Building color and finish. . . . . . . . . . . 5-4
Building facade/elevation . . . . . . . . . . 5-3
Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-8
Design treatments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-2
General provisions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-1
Preferred roof materials/styles . . . . . 5-7
Window/door treatments . . . . . . . . . . . 5-6
Consistency with comprehensive land
use plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Art. 2
Established. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Art. 1
General provisions
Applicability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-1
Procedure and regulations . . . . . . . . . 3-2
Land and structures, nonconforming
uses of
Extension and enlargement of
nonconforming uses. . . . . . . . . . . 45-61
Intent. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45-60
Nonconforming lots of record . . . . . . . 45-62
Nonconforming structures. . . . . . . . . . 45-64
Nonconforming uses of land . . . . . . . . 45-63
Nonconforming uses of structures or
of structures and premises in
combination. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45-65
Repairs and maintenance . . . . . . . . . . 45-66
Temporary uses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45-67
Landscape elements
Administration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-2
Foundation landscaping and plant-
ings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-12
Intent. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-1
Irrigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-14
Landscape requirements for off-
street parking areas . . . . . . . . . . 6-10
Maintenance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-13
Minimum landscape buffer and plant-
ing requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-11
Minimum landscape requirements. . 6-8
Miscellaneous landscape elements . . 6-9
New construction and substantial
revision . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-5
Nonconforming landscape areas . . . . 6-3
Preferred landscape palette . . . . . . . . 6-7
Prohibited and standard invasive
plants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-6
Pruning. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-15
Tree and plant installation. . . . . . . . . 6-4
Signage and outdoor displays
Accessory signs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-5
Appearance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-2
Business signs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-6
Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-11
Design, construction, and location
standards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-9
Exempt signs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-3
ZONING (Appendix C) (Cont'd.)
Exterior architectural lighting. . . . . . 7-10
General provisions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-1
Measurement determinations . . . . . . 7-8
Street numbers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-7
Temporary signs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-4
Site plan elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Art. 8
Building orientation and placement. 8-2
General design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-1
Off-street parking areas . . . . . . . . . . . 8-3
Pedestrian amenities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-4
Site and street furniture . . . . . . . . . . . 8-5
Zoning regulations
Development review regulations. . . . 4-1
Land use chart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-2
Use definitions and supplemental
regulations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-3
Oceanfront land
Ocean setback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45-22
Official zoning map
Adopted by reference. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45-17(1)
Boundary conflict interpretations . . . . . 45-18
Buildings and uses to conform to district
regulations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45-19
Changes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45-17(3)
Damaged, destroyed, etc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45-17(5)
Identification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45-17(2)
Location; final authority. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45-17(4)
Off-street loading and internal circulation
C-3 Regional Business District. . . . . . . . 45-34.1(3)
Off-street parking
C-3 Regional Business District. . . . . . . . 45-34.1(2)
R-1 Single-Family Dwelling Districts . . 45-27(G)
R-2 Multiple-Family Dwelling District. 45-28(F)
R-3 Apartment Dwelling District. . . . . . 45-30(E)
Open spaces. See herein: Yards and Open
Spaces
OS conservation and open space district . 45-35.2
Building height regulations. . . . . . . . . . . 45-35.2(C)
Building site area regulations. . . . . . . . . 45-35.2(D)
Coastal zone protection. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45-35.2(F)
Intent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45-35.2(A)
Uses permitted . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45-35.2(B)
Yard space regulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45-35.2(E)
Parking
Off-street loading and internal circula-
tion. See herein that subject
Off-street parking regulations. See
herein: Off-Street Parking
Permitted uses
C-3 Regional Business District. . . . . . . . 45-34.1(1)
R-1 Single-Family Dwelling Districts . . 45-27(A)
R-2 Multiple-Family Dwelling District. 45-28(A)
R-3 Apartment Dwelling District. . . . . . 45-30(A)
Planned unit development
Action of planning commission. . . . . . . . 45-35.1.IV
Action of village council . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45-35.1.V
Effect of approval of village council . . . 45-35.1.VI
Filing of application. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45-35.1.II
Key redevelopment sites. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45-35.1.VIII
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ZONING (Appendix C) (Cont'd.)
Public notice. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45-35.1.VII
Referral to planning commission . . . . . . 45-35.1.III
Statement of intent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45-35.1.I
Public district
Restricted uses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45-35
R-1 Single-Family Dwelling District . . . . . 45-27
Accessory structures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45-27(H)
Building height regulations. . . . . . . . . . . 45-27(B)
Building wall articulation . . . . . . . . . . . . 45-27(E)
Maximum driveway width in swale . . . 45-27(K)
Mechanical equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45-27(I)
Minimum landscaped area. . . . . . . . . . . . 45-27(J)
Off-street parking. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45-27(G)
Permitted uses. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45-27(A)
Second-story floor area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45-27(F)
Site area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45-27(C)
Yard space regulations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45-27(D)
R-2 Multiple-Family Dwelling District
Community residential home regula-
tions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45-28(G)
Floor area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45-28(E)
Height . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45-28(B)
Mechanical equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45-28(H)
Off-street parking. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45-28(F)
Permitted uses. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45-28(A)
Site area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45-28(C)
Yards and open spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45-28(D)
R-3 Apartment Dwelling District
Floor area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45-30(F)
Height . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45-30(B)
Off-street parking. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45-30(E)
Permitted uses. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45-30(A)
Site area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45-30(C)
Yards and open spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45-30(D)
Reasonable accommodation procedure . . . 45-25
Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45-25(b)
Fee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45-25(d)
Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45-25(c)
Purpose and general provisions . . . . . . . 45-25(a)
Rezonings; variances; waivers
Applications for rezoning, etc . . . . . . . . . 45-49
Variances. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45-50
Waivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45-51
Setbacks
C-3 Regional Business District. . . . . . . . 45-34.1(5)
Oceanfront land. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45-22
Short title. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45-1
Signs
C-3 Regional Business District. . . . . . . . 45-34.1(7)
Similar uses. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45-16.1
Site area
R-1 Single-Family Dwelling Districts . . 45-27(C)
R-2 Multiple-Family Dwelling District. 45-28(C)
R-3 Apartment Dwelling District. . . . . . 45-30(C)
Special exception uses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45-16.2
Conditions on special exception approv-
als . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45-16.2(c)
General provisions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45-16.29(a)
Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45-16.2(e)
ZONING (Appendix C) (Cont'd.)
Public notice. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45-16.2(f)
Special exception uses within planned
unit developments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45-16.2(d)
Standards for review of special excep-
tion use approvals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45-16.2(b)
Surface water management
C-3 Regional Business District. . . . . . . . 45-34.1(8)
Telecommunications antenna and antenna
towers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45-21
Vacation rentals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45-40
Violation and penalty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45-6
Yards and open spaces
R-1 Single-Family Dwelling Districts . . 45-27(D)
R-2 Multiple-Family Dwelling District. 45-28(D)
R-3 Apartment Dwelling District. . . . . . 45-30(D)
NORTH PALM BEACH CODE
Section Section
2966Supp. No. 82