O-274-56 ORDINANCE NO. 274
AN ORDINANCE PROVIDING FOR THE TRIAL OF
PERSONS UNDER THE AGE OF SEVENTEEN YEARS.
BE IT ORDAINED BY MIAMI SHORES VILLAGE., FLORIDA:
Section 1. Pursuant to the provisions of Chapter 3044Z,
Laws of Florida, 1955, the officials of this Village, including the Judge of
the Municipal Court, are hereby given jurisdiction and power to apprehend
and try persons under the age of seventeen years for offenses committed in
violation of ordinances of the said Village, or laws of the State of Florida,
relating to the regulation of traffic and the operation of motor vehicles.
Section Z. In the disposition of said cases, it shall be
competent for the Judge of said Municipal Court to impose fines not exceed-
ing $500. 00, in addition to costs of Court upon said persons who are so
convicted, or to release said persons on such probationary terms and to
such persons as the Judge shall deem proper, and in addition to either of
such sentences to suspend the driver's license of the person so convicted.
Section 3. If it should appear necessary that any such
person so coi�victed shall be detained or ordered confined for any period
of time in lieu of any other type of penalty or punishment, then the Judge of
said Court shall not impose any penalty upon the person so convicted but in
such event the cause shall be transferred to the jurisdiction of the Juvenile
and Domestic Relations Court of Dade County, as provided by said Chapter
30442.
Section 4. The trial of persons under the age of seventeen
years, as provided herein, shall be conducted either in separate quarters
of the Court, apart from those in which the trial of other cases is conducted,
or at separate sessions of said Court, at which such separate sessions,
it shall not try any cases other than those of persons under the age of
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seventeen years, to the end that persons under such age shall not be tried
in the presence of and in company with other persons over such age.
Section 5. This ordinance shall take effect upon becoming
a law.
PASSED AND ADOPTED, this 6th day of November, 1956.
Mayor
ATTEST:-
Village Clerk
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