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AN ORDINANCE OF THE TOWN OF GULF STREAM,
FLORIDA, PROVIDING FOR THE PROHIBITION
OF MOTOR VEHICLE TRAFFIC ON PUBLIC BEACHES
WITHIN THE TOWN; PROVIDING FOR SEVERABILITY;
PROVIDING FOR CODIFICATION; PROVIDING FOR
EFFECTIVE DATE.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE TOWN COMMISSION OF THE TOWN OF
GULF STREAM, FLORIDA, as follows:
Section 1. It shall be unlawful for any person to stop,
stand, park or operate any motor vehicle upon the ocean beaches
or the banks and dunes adjacent thereto within the limits of the
Town. Provided, however, nothing herein shall prevent official
motor vehicles of a government agency from traversing said beaches,
banks or dunes in the performance of official governmental duties.
Section 2. In any prosecution charging a violation of
a provision of this section or other ordinance governing the
stopping, standing, parking or operating of a vehicle, proof that
the particular vehicle described in the complaint was parked or
operated in violation of any such ordinance or regulation, together
with proof that the defendant named in the complaint was at the
time of such parking or operating the registered owner of such
vehicle, shall constitute in evidence a prima facie presumption
that the registered owner of such vehicle was the person who
stopped, stood, parked or operated such vehicle at the point
where, and for the time during which, such violation occurred.
Section 3. A person found to be in violation of the
terms of this section shall be subject to the provisions of the
Code of Ordinances relating to general penalties.
Section 4. If any section, paragraph, clause, phrase
or term of this Ordinance be declared invalid, the same shall not
operate or invalidate any other provision.
Section 5. This Ordinance shall be codified and made a
part of the official Code of Ordinances of the Town of Gulf Stream,
Florida.
Section 6. That this Ordinance shall be in full force
and effect from and after its passage and approval according to
law.
PASSED AND ADOPTED ON SECOND READING THIS 14th
DAY OF SEPTEMBER , 1984.
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