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Charter review committee asks staff to study option letting county ordinances prevail in conflicts with municipal law
Summary
The Leon County Charter Review Committee voted to ask staff to study concrete examples where county and municipal ordinances conflict and to return with options rather than immediately advancing a broad charter amendment.
The Leon County Charter Review Committee voted to ask staff to study concrete examples where county and municipal ordinances conflict and to return with options rather than immediately advancing a broad charter amendment.
The committee considered a county administration request to evaluate whether county ordinances should prevail in the event of a conflict with municipal law. County Attorney Chastity Osteen told the committee that Florida’s Constitution (Article 8, Section 1(g)) gives charter counties the authority to specify which local ordinances prevail. She noted Leon County’s charter currently says municipal ordinances prevail within the City of Tallahassee except where the charter establishes minimum countywide environmental standards (section 1.62), which set a countywide…
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