CHARTER  

Wakulla County Ordinance No. 2008-14.

An ordinance of the Board of County Commissioners of Wakulla County, Florida, providing for adoption of a Home Rule Charter; providing for a preamble; providing for creation and general powers and home rule charter government; providing for body corporate, name and boundaries, providing for construction; providing for special powers and duties of county; providing for a municipal purposes provision; providing for transfer of powers; providing for separation of powers as relates to state law; providing for conflict of county ordinances with municipal ordinances; providing for a legislative branch board of county commissioners; providing for composition and redistricting; providing for qualifications and election and terms of office; providing for salary and other compensation; providing for vacancies and suspensions; providing for powers; providing for a Code of Ordinances and an administrative code; providing for administrative branch county manager; providing for compensation and terms of employment, powers and duties; providing for noninterference by board of county commissioners and for temporary absence or incapacity; providing for appointment of a county attorney; providing for a provision regarding county constitutional officers, providing for powers reserved to the people; initiative and recall; providing for a procedure for petition; consideration by board of county commissioners; providing for limitation on ordinances by initiative and recall; providing for effective date of the Charter as law; providing for transition; providing for continuation of laws, ordinances and contracts; providing for initial county commissioners and initial county manager and initial county attorney; providing for employee continuation and continuation of agencies and advisory bodies; providing for outstanding bonds, revenue certificates and other financial obligations; providing for charter amendments; providing for amendments by county commissioners; providing for amendments by petition, and amendments by referendum; providing for a charter review commission; providing severability and validity; and providing for an effective date.

Whereas, Wakulla County, Florida, is presently a non-charter government as an established under article VIII, section 1(f), Florida Constitution; and

Whereas, article VIII, sections 1(c) and 1(g), Florida Constitution, provide that a county government may be established by charter, which shall be adopted upon a majority vote of electors of the county; and

Whereas, section 125.80, et seq., Florida Statutes, provides a method whereby a noncharter county may locally initiate a county home rule charter;

Now therefore, be it ordained by the Board of County Commissioners of Wakulla County, Florida, that: