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enforcement staff and activities will fall under the purview of the newly created Development Services Department as the Code Compliance Division; and WHEREAS, in the past, department names have been revised in Chapter 22 of the Code, but the remainder of the Code was not updated to reflect the amended departmental names, thus, resulting in inconsistencies of departmental names and titles throughout the Code; and WHEREAS, in the interest of providing consistency, clarity, and continuity, the department names and titles throughout the Code will be amended to conform with the newly revised department names in Chapter 22; and WHEREAS, in the process of renaming departments and titles in the Code to comport with the recent amendment to Chapter 22, the City discovered instances where the term "Special Master" was utilized, which should be replaced with the appropriate title "Special Magistrate"; and WHEREAS, a review of the Code further revealed instances wherein the term "Code Enforcement Department" was utilized, when said department had previously been renamed to "Code Compliance Department", and under the current reorganization, will be designated as a "division"; therefore, in the furtherance of ensuring clarity and consistency, when references are made to enforcement being by the "Code Enforcement Department" it was revised to reflect that enforcement would be pursuant to Chapter 14 of the Code of Ordinances; and WHEREAS, the continued review of the Code revealed the inclusion of the Director of Management Information Systems in Chapter 197, which governs Business Tax Receipts, however, that is an obsolete title and in practice, the City Manager or designee completes the function described therein and so the title was removed; and WHEREAS, the City Commission of the City of Sunny Isles Beach hereby finds and declares that the adoption of this ordinance correcting various titles and department names throughout the entire Code is in the best interest of the City. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF SUNNY ISLES BEACH, FLORIDA, AS FOLLOWS:' Section 1. Incorporation of Recitals. The foregoing "WHEREAS" clauses are hereby ratified and confirmed as being true and correct and are hereby made a specific part by this Ordinance upon adoption hereof. Section 2. Amendment to Chapter 14 of the City Code. Chapter 14 of the City Code is hereby amended to read as follows: Chapter 14 - CODE ENFORCEMENT 1 Additions to existing text are shown by underline, changes to existing text on second reading are shown by double underline. and deletions are shown as stFik gh. 2