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Home My WebLink About25-011 r a. t ORDINANCE NO. 2025-011 AN ORDINANCE OF THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF ST. LUCIE COUNTY, FLORIDA, AMENDING CHAPTER 1, ARTICLE 1 OF THE ST. LUCIE COUNTY CODE, SECTIONS 1-12-1-40 TO CREATE A NEW SECTION 1-12 OF THE ST. LUCIE COUNTY CODE TO ALLOW FOR PUBLICATION OF ADVERTISEMENTS AND PUBLIC NOTICES ON A PUBLICLY ACCESSIBLE WEBSITE; PROVIDING FOR REPEAL; PROVIDING FOR MODIFICATION AT PUBLIC HEARING; PROVIDING FOR SEVERABILITY; PROVIDING FOR INCLUSION IN THE CODE; AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE. WHEREAS, Chapter 50, Florida Statutes, Legal and Official Advertisements, provides that, effective January 1, 2023, a governmental agency may publish certain statutorily required legal advertisements, publications, or notices on the publicly accessible website of the county in which it lies if doing so would cost less than publishing legal notices in a newspaper; and WHEREAS, the County intends to publish statutorily required advertisements, publications, and notices on a publicly accessible website to the extent authorized by state law; and WHEREAS, various county ordinances, resolutions, board policies, and administrative procedures require official or legal advertisement, publication, or notice in a newspaper; and WHEREAS, the Board of County Commissioners desires to amend the St. Lucie County Code to allow advertisements, publications or notices that are currently required to be published in a newspaper by county ordinance, resolution, board policy, or administrative procedure, to instead be published on a publicly accessible website; and WHEREAS, the Board of County Commissioners has determined that the cost of publishing legal advertisements and public notices on the publicly accessible website of the county is less than the cost of publishing legal advertisements and public notices in a newspaper; and WHEREAS,the Board of County Commissioners has also determined that a public facing I website is more accessible to the general public and does not require a subscription to access the public notices. ' MICHELLE R.MILLER,CLERK OF THE CIRCUIT COURT SAINT LUCIE COUNTY FILE# 5489347 06105/2025 09:53:09 AM ORDN OR BOOK 5322 PAGE 2223-2226 Doc Type 1 RECORDING: $35.50 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT DULY ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF ST. LUCIE COUNTY,FLORIDA,AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. Section 1-12-1-40 of the St.Lucie County Code,is hereby amended to create the following new Section 1-12 entitled "Publication of advertisements and public notices on a publicly accessible website" as follows: Chapter 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS ARTICLE I. -IN GENERAL * * Sec. 1-12.—Publication of advertisements and public notices on a publicly accessible website. (a) Notwithstanding any other requirements of this code, whenever, by statute, County Code,ordinance,resolution,board policy,administrative order,or otherwise,an official or legal advertisement, publication, or notice in a newspaper is directed, required, or permitted, such advertisement, publication, or notice may be published on a publicly accessible website, as authorized by and pursuant to Chapter 50, Florida Statutes, in lieu of newspaper publication. (b) When a notice is published on a publicly accessible website consistent with Chapter 50,Florida Statutes,the County shall not have to also publish the notice in a newspaper. (c) As used in this section, the term "publicly accessible website" means the County's official website or other private website designated by the County for the publication of legal notices and advertisements that is accessible to the public via the Internet, pursuant to Chapter 50, Florida Statutes. Secs. 1-123-1-40. - Reserved. SECTION 2. REPEAL.All ordinances or portions thereof in conflict herewith are,to the extent of such conflict, hereby repealed. SECTION 3. MODIFICATION. It is the intent of the Board of County Commissioners that the provisions of this ordinance may be modified as a result of considerations that may arise 2 during public hearings. Such modifications shall be incorporated into the final version of the ordinance adopted by the Board and filed by the Clerk to the Board. SECTION 4. SEVERABILITY. If any word, phrase, clause, paragraph, section or provision of this ordinance or the application hereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid or unconstitutional, such finding shall not affect the other provisions or applications of the ordinance which can be given effect without the invalid or unconstitutional provisions or application, and to this end the provisions of this ordinance are declared severable. SECTION 5. INCLUSION IN THE CODE. It is the intent of the Board of County Commissioners of St. Lucie County, Florida and it is hereby provided that the provisions of this ordinance shall become and be made a part of the St. Lucie County Code, as appropriate; that the section of this ordinance may be renumbered or re-lettered to accomplish such intent and that the word"ordinance" may be changed to "section", "article", or other appropriate designation. SECTION 6. EFFECTIVE DATE.A certified copy of this ordinance shall be filed with the Department of State by the Clerk of the Board within ten (10) days after enactment by the Board and shall take effect upon filing with the Department of State. SECTION 7. ADMINISTRATIVE CORRECTION OF SCRIVENER'S ERRORS. The administrative correction of typographical and/or scrivener's errors in this ordinance which do not affect the intent may be authorized by the County Attorney or designee, without need of public hearing, by filing a corrected or recodified copy of the same with the Clerk of Courts. SECTION 8. ADOPTION. After motion and second, the vote on this ordinance was as follows: Chair Jamie Fowler AYE Vice Chair Larry Leet AYE Commissioner James Clasby AYE Commissioner Erin Lowry AYE Commissioner Cathy Townsend AYE DULY ADOPTED this 20th day of May, 2025. 3 BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS ATTEST: ST. LUCIE COUNTY, FLORIDA / i • „ ,, . B --S.0Q(-- (5?„),)—Q_L, Deputy Clerk `r/_ air y vAl• 7 • PPROV D S TO FORM AND i,. , N i ' I CTNE S• of Gc�F BY: coin"' County Attorn (// 4 FLORIDA DEPARTMENT 0 'STATE RON DESANTIS Governor June 3, 2025 Michelle R. Miller Clerk & Comptroller St. Lucie County 2300 Virginia Ave. Fort Pierce, FL 34982 Dear Michelle Miller, CORD BYRD Secretary of State Pursuant to the provisions of Section 125.66, Florida Statutes, this will acknowledge receipt of your electronic copy of St. Lucie County Ordinance No. 2025-011, which was filed in this office on June 3, 2025. Sincerely, Alexandra Leijon Administrative Code and Register Director AL/dp R. A. Gray Building • 500 South Bronough Street • Tallahassee, Florida 32399-0250 Telephone: (850) 245-6270