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ORDINANCE: 1864
DEPUTY CLERKAPRESTWOOD
JD PEACOCK II CLERK OF COURTS,
OKALOOSA COUNTY, FLORIDA
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF CRESTVIEW,
FLORIDA, REPEALING THE 2016 OKALOOSA COUNTY
LOCAL MITIGATION STRATEGY; PROVIDING FOR
AUTHORITY; PROVIDING FOR FILING OF THIS
ORDINANCE WITH THE CLERK OF THE CIRCUIT
COURT OF OKALOOSA COUNTY; PROVIDING FOR
SEVERABILITY; PROVIDING FOR SCRIVENER'S
ERRORS; PROVIDING FOR LIBERAL
INTERPRETATION; PROVIDING FOR REPEAL OF
CONFLICTING CODES AND ORDINANCES; AND
PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE
WHEREAS, to ensure local communities prepare for natural disasters and as a
prerequisite to receive certain disaster funds, the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief Act
(42 USC 5121-5207), as modified by the Disaster Mitigation Act of 2000 (44 CFR 201),
requires local governments develop a Local Mitigation Strategy (LMS); and
WHEREAS, Okaloosa County adopted its first LMS in 1999, which it readopted with
revisions in 2006, substantially revised in 2011, and further updated in 2016; and
WHEREAS, City Council adopted the 2016 Okaloosa County LMS on October 10,
2016; and
WHEREAS, Okaloosa County has updated its LMS in 2021 and submitted such plan to
the Florida Division of Emergency Management (FDEM), which approved the 2021 Okaloosa
County LMS on October 18, 2021; and
WHEREAS, the City of Crestview is required to formally adopt the Okaloosa County
LMS prior to submittal to Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) by the State of
Florida; and
WHEREAS, upon review of the 2021 LMS for Okaloosa County, the City Council
of the City of Crestview does formally repeal the 2016 Okaloosa County Local Mitigation
Strategy to allow for the adoption of the 2021 Okaloosa County Local Mitigation strategy by
resolution of the City Council to ensure the City of Crestview and its residents are able to
receiver certain types of pre -disaster and post -disaster funds caused by natural disasters.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF CRESTVIEW, FLORIDA AS
FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1— AUTHORITY. The authority for enactment of this ordinance is Chapter
166.021, Florida Statutes, and Section 2 of the City Charter.
SECTION 2 — REPEAL OF 2016 LMS — The Okaloosa County 2016 Local Mitigation
Strategy is hereby repealed in its entirety.
SECTION 3 — FILING. Upon passage, the City Clerk is directed to file a copy of this
ordinance with the Clerk of Circuit Court of Okaloosa County and with the Florida Department
of the State.
SECTION 4 — SEVERABILITY. If any word, phrase, sentence, paragraph or provision of this
ordinance or the application thereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid or
unconstitutional, such finding shall not affect the other provisions or applications of this
ordinance which can be given effect without the invalid or unconstitutional provision or
application, and to this end the provisions of this ordinance are declared severable.
SECTION 5 — SCRIVENER'S ERRORS. The correction of typographical errors which do
not affect the intent of this Ordinance may be authorized by the City Manager or the City
Manager's designee, without public hearing, by filing a corrected or re -codified copy with the
City Clerk.
SECTION 6 — ORDINANCE TO BE LIBERALLY CONSTRUED. This Ordinance shall be
liberally construed in order to effectively carry out the purposes hereof which are deemed not to
adversely affect public health, safety, or welfare.
SECTION 7 — REPEAL OF CONFLICTING CODES, ORDINANCES, AND
RESOLUTIONS. All Charter provisions, codes, ordinances and resolutions or parts of
Charter provisions, codes, ordinances and resolutions or portions thereof of the City
of Crestview, in conflict with the provisions of this Ordinance are hereby repealed to the
extent of such conflict.
SECTION 8 — EFFECTIVE DATE. This ordinance shall take effect immediately upon its
adoption.
Passed and adopted on second reading by the City Council of Crestview, Florida on the 9th
day of May 2022.
Approved by me this 9th day of May 2022.
Mayor
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