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HomeMy WebLinkAbout06055 ORD - 01/25/1961IMS:AH:1 -24 -61 AN ORDINANCE .L-9 - AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 446 AS AMENDED, APPEARING SECTIONS OF CORPUS CHRISTI CITY CODE, 1958, BY AMENDING SECTION 5-4.1 SO AS TO PROVIDE FOR A DOG LICENSE FEE OF _1W0 2.00 DOLLARS INSTEAD OF THREE .00 DOLLARS; AMENDING SECTION 5- 3 SO AS TO PRO - VIDE A POUND RED TION E OF lW0 2.00 DO LAC RS INSTEAD OF FIVE, .00 DOLLARS AM SEVEN ($7.00) DOLLARS INSTEAD_ OF TEN,($10.00) DOLLARS WHERE THE IM- POUNDED ANIMAL IS HELD FOR OBSERVATION FOR RABIES: AMENDING SECTION 5 -37 SO AS TO PROVIDE A FEE OF FIVE ($5.00) DOLLARS INSTEAD OF SIX .00 ) DOLLARS EOg REDEMPTION FEE OF TWO DOLLARS; PROVID NG FOR BL_ICA- TION; AND DECLARING_AN_EMERGENCY. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS: SECTION 1. AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 4965, AS AMENDED, APPEARING AS SECTIONS OF CORPUS CHRISTI CITY CODE, 1958, BY AMENDING SECTION 5-41 THEREOF TO HEREAFTER READ AS FOLLOWS: "SEC. 5 -41. FEE. THE FEE FOR A DOG LICENSE SHALL BE TWO DOLLARS; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT NO FEE SHALL BE CHARGED FOR A LICENSE ISSUED FOR ANY DOG ACTUALLY USED BY A BLIND PERSON TO AID SUCH PERSON IN GOING FROM PLACE TO PLACE." SECTION 2. THAT SECTION 5 -53 OF THE CORPUS CHRISTI CITY CODE, 1958, BE AMENDED SO AS TO HEREAFTER READ AS FOLLOWS: "SEC. 5 -53• REDEMPTION OF IMPOUNDED ANIMALS OR FOWL. DOGS OR OTHER IMPOUNDED ANIMALS OR FOWL,SUBJECT TO REDEMPTION,MAY BE REDEEMED BY ANYONE ENTITLED TO POSSESSION THEREOF AT ANY TIME WHILE THE SAME ARE IN THE CITY POUND, UPON PAYING TO THE HUMANE DEPARTMENT AN IMPOUNDMENT FEE OF TWO DOLLARS, EXCEPT THAT, IN CASE THE ANIMAL IN QUESTION HAS BEEN-UNDER OBSERVA- TION AS DESCRIBED IN SECTION 5 -51 OF THIS CODE, THE FEE SHALL BE SEVEN DOLLARS, AND IN CASE THE ANIMAL IN QUESTION IS A DOG AS TO WHICH NO PROPER DOG LICENSE 15 IN EFFECT, UPON PROCUREMENT THEREFOR OF A PROPER DOG LICENSE AND A DOG LICENSE TAG; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT IN ANY CASE WHERE THE ANIMAL SOUGHT TO BE REDEEMED 15 SUFFERING FROM ANY DISEASE OR AILMEGIT, IT SHALL NOT BE RELEASED UNTIL THE OFFICER IN CHARGE OF THE HUMANE DEPARTMENT SHALL BE SATISFIED THAT ARRANGEMENTS LOOKING TO ITS PROPER TREATMENT ARE ASSURED. "ALL IMPOUNDED ANIMALS OTHER THAN THOSE WHICH HAVE EXHIBITED SYMPTOMS OF OR HAVE BEEN EXPOSED TO RABIES OR HYDROPHOBIAS SHALL BE SUBJECT TO IMMEDIATE REDEMPTION. DOGS OR'OTHER IMPOUNDED ANIMALS PUT UNDER OBSERVA- TION AS DESCRIBED IN SECTION 5 -51 OF THIS CODE SHALL BECOME SUBJECT TO REDEMPTION WHENEVER A LICENSED VETERINARIAN SHALL CERTIFY THEY DO NOT EXHIBIT SYMPTOMS OF BEING INFECTED WITH RABIES OR HYDROPHOBIA." SECTION 3. THAT SECTION 5 -37 OF THE CORPUS CHRISTI CITY CODE, 1958, BE AMENDED SO AS TO HEREAFTER READ AS FOLLOWS: "SEC. 5 -37. CARE OF BITCHES IN HEAT. THE OFFICER IN CHARGE OF THE HUMANE DEPARTMENT SHALL PROVIDE CARE FOR ALL FEMALE DOGS BROUGHT TO THE HUMANE DEPARTMENT WHILE SUCH DOGS ARE IN SEASON. THE CHARGE FOR SUCH CARE SHALL BE FIVE DOLLARS." p SECTION 4. THAT SECTION 5 -54 OF THE CORPUS CHRISTI CITY CODE, 1958, BE AMENDED SO AS TO HEREAFTER READ AS FOLLOWS: "SEC. 5 -54. SALE OF IMPOUNDED ANIMALS OR FOWLS. WHERE NOTICE AS REQUIRED IN THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN GIVEN WITH'RESPECT TO ANY DOG OR OTHER IMPOUNDED ANIMAL OR FOWLS AND MORE THAN THREE (3)DAYS HAVE PASSED WITHOUT ANYONE REDEEMING THE SAME THE OFFICER IN CHARGE OF THE HUMANE DEPARTMENT IS AUTHORIZED TO CAUSE THE SAME TO BE OFFERED FOR SALES AT PUBLIC OR PRIVATE SALE; PROVIDED, THAT THE PERSON FROM WHOSE POSSESSION THE ANIMAL WAS ORIGINALLY TAKEN MAY THEREAFTER REDEEM THE SAME ON PAYING THE PURCHASER DOUBLE THE AMOUNT PAID BY THE LATTER TO THE HUMANE DEPARTMENT, TOGETHER WITH REASONABLE EXPENSES INCURRED BY THE PURCHASER FOR KEEPING THE ANIMAL. ANY ANIMAL OR FOWL NOT REDEEMED FROM A PURCHASER WITHIN THIRTY (30) DAYS FROM DATE OF SALE SHALL BECOME THE ABSOLUTE PROPERTY OF THE PURCHASER." SECTION 5. THIS ORDINANCE SHALL TAKE EFFECT FROM AND AFTER ITS PUBLICATION ONE TIME IN THE OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI WHICH PUBLICATION SHALL CONTAIN THE CAPTION STATING IN SUMMARY THE PURPOSE OF THE ORDINANCE AND THE PENALTY FOR VIOLATION THEREOF. SECTION 6. THE NECESSITY TO MAKE THE HEREINABOVE AMENDMENTS TO PROVIDE FOR THE KEEPING OF LOST, UNWANTED SICK AND INJURED ANIMALS CREATES A PUBLIC EMERGENCY AND AN IMPERATIVE PUBLIC NECESSITY REQUIRING THE SUSPENSION OF THE CHARTER RULE THAT NO ORDINANCE OR RESOLUTION SHALL -2- BE PASSED FINALLY ON THE DATE OF ITS INTRODUCTION, AND THAT SUCH ORDINANCE OR RESOLUTION SHALL BE READ AT THREE MEETINGS OF THE CITY COUNCIL, AND THE MAYOR, HAVING DECLARED SUCH EMERGENCY AND NECESSITY TO EXIST, AND HAVING REQUESTED THAT SUCH CHARTER RULE BE SUSPENDED, AND THAT THIS ORDINANCE BE PASSED FINALLY ON THE DATE OF ITS INTRODUCTION, AND TAKE EFFECT AND BE IN FULL FORCE AND EFFECT FROM AND AFTER ITS PASSAGES AND PUBJr.I CA ION, IT IS ACCORDINGLY PASSED AND APPROVED, THIS THE 1J DaY OF 1 / \� , ig6l. ATTE e. I 1 CITY SECRETARY APPR VED AS TO LEGAL FORM IS DAY OF 1961. CITY A TO N Y < L� - tCOS MAYOR THE CITY O CHRISTI TEXAS • CO;RPPUS( CHRISTI, TEXAS V� ✓ ?Al OF TO THE MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS FOR THE REASONS SET FORTH IN THE EMERGENCY CLAUSE OF THE FORE- GOING ORDINANCE, A PUBLIC EMERGENCY AND IMPERATIVE NECESSITY EXIST FOR THE SUSPENSION OF THE CHARTER RULE OR REQUIREMENT THAT NO ORAINANCE OR RESOLU- TION SHALL BE PASSED FINALLY ON THE DATE IT IS A NTRODUCr'i, AND THAT SUCH ORDINANCE OR RESOLUTION SMALL BE READ AT THREE MEETINGS 4F THE CITY COUNCIL; I, THEREFORE, HEREBY REQUEST THAT YOU SUSPEND SAID CHARTER RULE OR REQUIRE- MENT AND PASS THIS ORDINANCE FINALLY ON THE DATE IT IS INTRODUCED, OR AT THE PRESENT MEETING OF THE CITY COUNCIL. RESPECTFULLY,.' KAYO THE Cl 0 CORPUS 4WISTI, TEXAS THE CHARTER RULE WAS SUSPENDED BY THE FOLLOWING VOTE: EL�ROY KING JAMES L. BARNARB MRS. _RAY AIRNEART- JOSEPH B. DMNM PATRICK J. DUNNE R. A. HUMBLE GABE LOEANO, .SR. - THE ABOVF ORDINANCE WAS PASSED BY THE FOLLOWI O VOTE: ELLROY KING JAMES L. BARNARD - MRS. -RAY AIRMEART JOSEPH B. DUNK 1p PATRICK J. DUNNE R. A. HUMBLE - GABE LO¢ANO, SR.