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The City of Tampa Charter was revised during the 2019 municipal elections via amendments, which will govern the newly elected Council. [ 2 ] The Tampa City Council is the legislative body of the municipal government of the U.S. city of Tampa , in Hillsborough County , Florida .
Local ordinance codes from Public.Resource.Org; Case law: "Florida", Caselaw Access Project, Harvard Law School, OCLC 1078785565, Court decisions freely available to the public online, in a consistent format, digitized from the collection of the Harvard Law Library
Orlando City Hall. Both counties and cities may have a legislative branch (commissions or councils) and executive branch (mayor or manager) and local police, but violations are brought before a county court. Counties and municipalities are authorized to pass laws (ordinances), levy taxes, and provide public services within their jurisdictions.
Division of Law Revision and Information, Index to Laws of Florida Special and Local Laws 1971 to 2013 [permanent dead link ^ An Act to Abolish the Municipality of the Town of Altoona, in Lake County, Florida (199 (Chapter 4860)). 1899.
Subsequently, developers have won cases, such as Palmer/Sixth Street Properties, L.P. v. City of Los Angeles (2009), against cities that imposed inclusionary requirements on rental units, as the state law supersedes local ordinances. [19] Citizen groups and developers have also sought other ways to strengthen or defeat inclusionary zoning laws.
Tampa spokesperson Adam Smith said the city has invested $2.9 billion on upgrading water and wastewater pipes since 2019 and began $360 million in stormwater improvements in 2017.
On January 31, 2019, a federal judge granted a temporary injunction against part of the Tampa ordinance. The judge stopped the city from enforcing its ban on talk therapy, while a lawsuit, Vazzo v. City of Tampa, was allowed to proceed. Other forms of therapy, such as electroshock therapy, are still explicitly banned.
Tampa's first organized volunteer fire department began in 1884 with seven "bucket brigades" organized to serve the city. Eleven years later in 1895, the city council passed an ordinance authorizing Tampa's first professional and paid fire department. [1] In July 1914 the horse-drawn carriages were replaced with the first engines.