O-33-35 MIAMI SHORES VILLAGE ORDINANCE
AN ORDINANCE REQUIRING ALL OWNERS OF MOTOR VEHICLES
OPERATED IN MIAMI SHORES VILLAGE TO PRESENT THEIR
VEHICLES FOR SEMI-ANNUAL INSPECTION OF CERTAIN
VEHICULAR EQUIPMENT,* REQUIRING THE ONMERS OF SAID
MOTOR VEHICLES TO COMPLY WITH THE REQUIREMENTS SET
FORTH IN THIS ORDINANCEp PROVIDING MINIMUM STANDARDS
FOR CERTAIN EQUIPMENT ON MOTOR VEHICLESp - PROVIDING
A FEE FOR THE INSPECTION OF SAID MOTOR VEHICLES,
REQUIRING ALL DRIVERS OF MOTOR VEHICLES IN MIAMI
SHORES VILLAGE TO SECURE DRIVERSI LICENSES., PRO-
VIDING FOR THE GRANTINGp REVOCATION AND SUSPENSION
OF SAID DRIVERS1 LICENSES., PRESCRIBING REGULATIONS
TO BE OBSERVED BY ALL DRIVERSO, PROVIDING PENALTIES
FOR THE VIOLATION OF ANY OF THE PROVISIONS OF THIS
ORDINANCEs AND DECLARING AN EMER CY TO EXIST.
WHEREASO the City of Miami, Florida, a Municipality con-
tiguous to and adjoining Miami Shore's Village,,- has adopted its
ordinance #1513 requiring inspection of motor vehicles and issuing
licenses for the operation of such vehicles, and
WHEREAS, the said ordinance of the City of Miamis Florida,
was passed as an emergency measureo and
WHEREASs it is the opinion of the Council of Miami Shores
Village for the proper protection of its residents and citizens to
adopt substantially the same regulations concerning the operation
and licensing of motor vehicles within Miami Shores Village to
properly regulate and safeguard the use of the streets of the Village,
NOWO THEREFOREp BE IT ORDAINED BY MIAMI SHORES VILLAGE:
SECTION 1. For the purpose of this ordinance a motor vehicle
is defined to. be any motor-propelled vehicle with the exception of
farm machinery, railroad locomotives., water crafto air craft and
trolley cars.
SECTION 2. The owners of all motor vehicles operated upon the
public streets and highways of Miami Shores Village shall present said
motor vehicle at least once every six months at a place designated
by the Village Manager for the purpose of having said vehicles in-
spected by members of the Police Department of the Village.
SECTION 3. When by said inspection it is determined that a
motor vehicle complies with the requirements of this ordinanceolthere
shall be furnished to the owner a certificate to be attached to the
windshield of the vehicle. Said certificate shall show the date of
inspection, description of the vehicle and shall state that the
vehicle was found to be safe for operation at the time of said in-
spection. The issuance of a certificate, however, shall not affect
the right of the Village to inspect said vehicle at all times under
the traffice rules and regulations of the Village.
SECTION 4* If a motor vehicle when presented for inspection
�s found to be defective, the owner of said vehicle shall be allowed
one week from the date of said inspection to make necessary adjust-
ments or repairs and' at the end of said week shall present the vehicle
for reinspection.
SECTION 5. To entitle the owner of a motor vehicle to the
certificate provided for herein, each motor vehicle must fulfill the
following requirements:
(a) The headlights on each motor vehicle shall
produce a driving light sufficient to render
persons or objects visible at night at least two
hundred (200) feet in''idvance of said vehicle,, but
shall not project a glaring or blinding light; and
no main part of the bright beam shall ,be projected
above the horizontal plane of the lamp centers;
headlight bulbs shall not exceed twenty-one (21)
candle power; and each vehicle shall alsoibe pro-
vided with a rear light discernible at night not
less than sixty (60) feet to the rear of the
vehicle.
(b) Every motor vehicle shall be provided with
brakes adequate to control .and stop and hold such
vehicleo and shall be equipped with two (2) inde-
pendent braking devices. The foot or service brake
shall be so adjusted as to enable the operator to
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SECTION 6o To defray the expense of making the inspections
provided for herein#a fee of shall be charged for
each certificate issued and said fee shall be paid by the person in
charge of the vehicle at the time of the application for inspection
and issuance of the certificate.
SECTION 7. That from and after the. 15th day of October., 1955.9
. it shall be unlawful for any person to operate any motor vehicle as
defined in Section 1 hereof, upon the streets, highways or other public
places of Miami Shores Village.. unless such person has applied for and
procured a driverts license as hereinafter provided. The provisions
of this section shall not apply however to any- person while learning
to operate a motor vehicle and accompanied by a licensed operator who
shall be held responsible for the observance of all traffic rules and
regulations by the person who is learning1to operate said vehicle.
SECTION 7-B. Any person learning to drive a motor vehicle
must first obtain a learnerls permit from the Village Manager.
SECTION 8. A driver's license to operate a motor vehicle as
defined in Section 1 hereof shall be granted only after an application
therefor has been duly made upon forms to be prescribed by the Village
Manager and after full and complete examination of the applicant as
herein provided and after the approval of such application by the examin-
ing officer or officers designated to supervise said examination.
SECTION 9. It shall be the duty of the Village Manager to
designate one or more members of the Police Department of the Village
to examine each applicant for said driver' s license as to physical
fitness and knowledge of the traffic laws of Miami Shore Village and all
other municipalities in Dade Countyp Florida., and asto the ability of
such applicant to operate a motor vehicle in compliance with the traffic
rules and regulations prescribed by Miami .Shores Village and all other
municipalities in Dade County,, Florida. . The examination of the physical
condition of said applicant shall include a test of Visual capacity and
a determination of the existence of physical impairment which would pre-
vent the proper operation of a motor vehicle. The standards of physical
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fitness to be met ,by each applicant for a driver' s license shall be
formulated and prescribed by the Village Manager.
SECTION 10. If such applicant shall demonstrate ability
to operate a motor vehicle in a reasonably safe and prudent manner and
shall display to the satisfaction of the examining officer or officers
substantial knowledge of the traffic ru�les and regulations of Miami
Shores Village and all other minicipalities in Dade County, Florida,
the officer or officers shall approve the application and a driver' s
license to operate the type of motor vehicle described in the applica-
tion shall be granted to said applicant upon payment of the fee herein-
after prescribed.
SECTION 11. Whenever an application for a driver' s license
is disapproved because the applicant has failed to pass the prescribed
examination,, the examining officer or officers shall submit to the
Village Manager a written report stating the reasons for the disapproval
of the application and the said written r9port shall be filed in the
office of saidVillage Manager..
SECTION 12. A non-resident operator of a motor vehicle to
whom a driver' s license has been granted by a State or Municipality
which requires all persons to be examined as to fitness to drive and
operate motor vehicles in substantially the same respects as set forth
herein, shall not be required to take the examination provided for in
Section 9 hereof,, but said license granted by said State or Municipality
shall serve as sufficient authorization for the issuance of a driver's
.license card by Miami Shores Village upon payment of the fee hereinafter
prescribed. Non-resident drivers shall be allowed thirty (30) days
within which to -comply with the provisions of this ordinance.
SECTION 13* No license shall be granted to any person who
is less than fifteen (15) years of age nor to any person who has been
adjudged a lunatic or an habitual drunkard or drug addict.
SECTION 14. Each person to whom a driver' s license is granted
shall be issued a license card stating that a driverts license has been
'granted to the person named thereon. License cards shall be consecu
tively numbered and each license card shall contain the date of its
issuance, the full nameo, residence., ,age,, color.. sex., height., and
weight of the person to whom it is issued and 'such other information
a.s the Village Manager may prescribe. Duplicate license cards to
replace lost or mutilated cards shall be issued at the discretion of
the Village Manager.
SECTION 15. All licenses to operate motor vehicles shall
expire on September 15th of each year and must be renewed annually on
or prior to said date. The renewal of a license shall not necessitate
the taking and passage of another examination except at the discretion
of the examining officer but shall involve the procurement of a new
license card for the ensuing year.
SECTION 16. Each person to whom a driverts license has been
granted is hereby required, while operating 4 motor vehicle and upon
the demand of any police officer of Miami Shores Villageo to present
the driver' s license card for the examination of said police officer.
SECTION 17* The Village Judge is hereby authorized and em-
powered to revoke any driver' s license granted under the provisions
hereof provided that the person to whom said license has been granted
is convicted of violating a traffic regulation or traffic ordinance
and provided further that, in the opinion of said Judge, the revocation
of said license is necessary in the interest of public safety. The
Vill-age Judge is also empowered to suspend a-driver' s license for a
specified period in arjy case wherein said Judge Is of the opinion that
the suspension rather than revocation of a license is warranted. Any
person whose driver's license is suspended or revoked by the Village
. Judge shall surrender to the Court the driverts license card� herein-
before described and upon refusal so to doo shall be subject to the
penalty hereinafter provided.
SECTION 18. The following fees are hereby adopted and
prescribed:
(1) For each original license or renewal thereof la-612d
(2) For each duplicate license card issued_
SECTION 19* Any person adjudged to have been guilty of
violating any of the provisions of this ordinance shall be liable to
a f ino, of not to oxceed, two hundred ($200.00) dollars or to imprison-
to (60) days,, or to both, fine and
exceed sixty
OW ION 20 Each word
phr***j, , sent co' .Or section, of this
ordipawt -shall- b* severable and the invalidity of any word,, phras '
soottiii-�Irball other
Pa '& th*j
OR 21
-I That an emergency exists for the protootion of
US polio. melfare,, lif a and property*
This ordiitmie shall be effective, an t1le 15th
day -Ob
�:�of Oct or,,-Ae bop 1936,
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ftaninously' pas mod and adopted this day of Ootobor,
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V'LIl"*/XO-Mg*r Clerk*
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