Opinion ID: 75672
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 5

Heading: Amendment to Section 22-9

Text: 29 After filing a notice of appeal, the City Commission amended Section 22-9 through its passage of Ordinance 2000-41 on November 29, 2000. That amendment deleted certain words from Section 22-9 (by striking through them) and added certain words (by underlining them), in the following manner: 30 (b) Definitions. The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this article, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning: 31 (1) Perform includes, but is not limited to means acting, singing, playing musical instruments, pantomime, mime, magic, dancing, and artistry or the sale of visual art and wares, which shall include means drawings and or paintings applied to paper, cardboard, canvas or to other similar medium when such art is applied to the medium through the use of brush, pastel, crayon, pencil, or other similar object, and the creation, display and/or sale of crafts made by hand or otherwise. 32 (2) The following activities shall be prohibited because of issues of safety to the public: Any Prohibited Activity means any activity involving spray painting or use of aerosols or propellants, including air pressure, to spray or apply any liquid; the use of fire; or the use of any weapon as defined within Florida Statutes. 33 (2 3) Prohibited public areas means the pedestrian accessed public areas of St. George Street from Cathedral Place north to Orange Street and within 50 feet of that section of St. George Street on the public lanes, streets or thoroughfares. 34 (4) Street Performers as used in this ordinance means individuals who perform, as defined herein, on the streets of the City of St. Augustine. 35 ( 3 5) Other public areas means public streets, rights-of-ways, sidewalks, parks, playgrounds, and all public ways except those portions of the streets and roadways intended for use by vehicular traffic within the City of St. Augustine. 36 (c) Prohibition. No person Street Performers may perform in a prohibited public area. No Street Performer may perform a Prohibited Activity anywhere in the City of St. Augustine. 37 (d) Permitted performances. Performances may take place Street performers may perform in all public areas of St. Augustine except that area on St. George Street located between Orange Street to the north and Cathedral Place to the south, and within 50 feet of this section of St. George Street on the intersecting public streets, lanes and thoroughfares. 38 (e) Exceptions. A performer Street Performer shall not perform in a manner that interferes with the visibility of any motorist, or at or near intersections or passages in a manner which interferes with the sight distance of any motorist traveling on or entering any thoroughfare in the City. 5 39 St. Augustine, Fla., Code § 22-9(b)-(e) (Nov. 2000). 6 The City's amendment through Ordinance 2000-41 did not cure Horton's problems with Section 22-9 because it left the bulk of the challenged language in Section 22-9. Indeed, Horton promptly filed a Supplemental Complaint raising the same challenges to Section 22-9, as amended by Ordinance 2000-41, as he did before. 7 The City's Answer to Horton's Supplemental Complaint defended the constitutionality of Section 22-9, as amended by Ordinance 2000-41, on the same grounds as before.