3038 OPd)INANCE NO. 3038
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF SANFORD, FLORIDA,
AMENDING SECTION 16-12 OF THE SANFORD CITY CODE TO
PROVIDE FOR AN EXCEPTION TO THE DAY NURSERY OR
KINDERGARTEN LICENSE TAN; PROVIDING AN EXCEPTION
FOR FAMILY DAY CARE HOMES; DEFINING "FAMILY DAY
CANE HOMES"; ESTABLISHING LICENSE TAN AMOUNT FOR
FAMILY DAY CARE HOMES; PROVIDING CODIFICATION,
SEVERABILITY, CONFLICTS AND EFFECTIVE DATE.
WHEREAS, the City Commission of the City of Sanford,
Florida, finds that many of the providers of family day care home
services are single mothers, grandmothers and low-income families who
are in need of the income received from providing this service to
working parents; and
WHEREAS, the City Commission of the City of Sanford,
Florida, desires to carve out an exception from the day nursery or
kindergarten license tax to create a lower license tax for family day
care homes.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE CITY OF
SANFORD, FLORIDA:
SECTION 1: Section 16-12, Day Nursery or Kindergarten, of
the City of Sanford Code is hereby amended to read as follows:
DAY NURSERY OR KINDERGARTEN ................. $37.50
Definition: An institution or place in which two
(2) or more children not of common parentage are
received for periods of not less than four (4)
hours at any one time, for care apart from their
parents, for compensation. Must be approved by
the State of Florida Health and Rehabilitative
Services. .~
Exception A--Family Day Care Homes .......... $ 5.00
"Family day care home" means an occupied residence
in which child care is regularly provided for no
more than five preschool children from more than
one unrelated family and which receives a payment,
fee, or grant for any of the children receiving
care, whether or not operated for profit. The
maximum number of five preschool children includes
preschool children living in the home and
preschool children received for day care who are
not related to the resident caregiver. Elementary
school siblings of the preschool children received
from day care may also be cared for outside of
school hours provided the total number of
children, including the caregiver's own and those
related to the caregiver, does not exceed 10.
SECTION 3: The Code of Ordinances of the City of Sanford,
Florida, be and the same is hereby amended in accordance with the
terms, provisions, and conditions of this Ordinance. Further, that
the sections of this Ordinance may be tenumbered or relettered to
accomplish said amendment and the word "ordinance" may be changes to
"Section", "Article", or other appropriate word.
SECTION 4: If any section or portion of a section of this
ordinance provides to be invalid, unlawful or unconstitutional, it
shall not be held to impair the validity, force or effect of any other
section or part of this ordinance.
SECTION 5: That all ordinances or parts of ordinances in
conflict hereby be and the same are hereby revoked.
SECTION 6: That this ordinance shall become effective
inmediately upon its passage and adoption.
A.D. 1990.
ATTEST:
City of Sanford, Florida
ORDINANCE NO. 3038
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CERTIFICATE
I, Janet R. Donahoe, City Clerk of the City of Sanford,
Florida, do hereby certify that a true and correct copy of the
foregoing Ordinance No. 3038, PASSED AND ADOPTED by the City
Commission of the City of Sanford, Florida, on the 12th day of
November, 1990, was posted at the front door of the City Hall in
the City of Sanford, Florida, on the 13th day of November, 1990.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and the
official seal of the City of Sanfords_Florida, this 13th day of
November, 1990.