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AN ORDINANCE
AMENDING THE CORPUS CHRISTI CITY CODE, 1958,
AS AMENDED, BY ADOPTING A NEW SECTION TO CHAPTER
23 TO BE NUMBERED AND ENTITLED SECTION 23 -37,
"DISORDERLY CONDUCT ", SO AS TO DEFINE THE OFFENSE
OF DISORDERLY CONDUCT; PROVIDING FOR SEVERANCE
CLAUSE; PROVIDING FOR PENALTY; PROVIDING FOR
PUBLICATION; AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS
CHRISTI, TEXAS:
SECTION 1. THAT THE CORPUS CHRISTI CITY CODE, 1958, AS
AMENDED, . BE AMENDED BY ADOPTING A NEW SECTION TO CHAPTER 23, TO BE
NUMBERED AND ENTITLED SECTION 23 -37, DISORDERLY CONDUCT, READING AS
FOLLOWS:
"SECTION 23 -37. DISORDERLY CONDUCT.
"IT SHALL BE UNLAWFUL FOR ANY PERSON TO USE ANY PROFANE,
VULGAR OR ABUSIVE LANGUAGE OR TO BE GUILTY OF ANY INDECENT, LASCIVIOUS,
OBSCENE OR LEWD CONDUCT AND VIOLATION OF THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SECTION
SHALL CONSTITUTE DISORDERLY CONDUCT. ALL OTHER PROVISIONS OF THIS CODE
SPECIFICALLY DESIGNATED AS !DISORDERLY CONDUCT' SHALL ALSO BE PUNISHABLE
AS THE OFFENSE OF DISORDERLY CONDUCT."
SECTION 2. IF FOR ANY REASON ANY SECTION, PARAGRAPH, SUB-
DIVISION, CLAUSE, PHRASE, OR PROVISION OF THIS ORDINANCE SHALL BE HELD
INVALID, IT SHALL NOT AFFECT ANY VALID PROVISIONS OF THIS OR ANY OTHER
ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI TO WHICH THESE RULES AND REGU-
LATIONS RELATE.
SECTION 3. ANY PERSON VIOLATING THE TERMS AND PROVISIONS
OF THIS ORDINANCE SHALL BE DEEMED GUILTY OF A MISDEMEANOR, AND UPON
CONVICTION, SHALL BE FINED IN A SUM NOT TO EXCEED TWO HUNDRED DOLLARS
($200.00).
SECTION 4. PUBLICATION SHALL BE MADE IN THE OFFICIAL
PUBLICATION OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, ONE TIME, WHICH PUBLI-
CATION SHALL CONTAIN THE CAPTION STATING IN SUBSTANCE THE PURPOSE
OF THE ORDINANCE AND RECITING THE PENALTY FOR VIOLATION OF THE ORDINANCE.
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SECTION 5. THE NECESSITY FOR DEFINING IIOFFEN3E11 AND
"DISORDERLY,CONDUCT" CREATES A PUBLIC EMERGENCY AND AN IMPERATIVE
PUBLIC NECESSITY REQUIRING THE SUSPENSION OF THE CHARTER RULE THAT NO
ORDINANCE OR RESOLUTION SHALT BE PASSED FINALLY ON THE DATE OF ITS
INTRODUCTION AND THAT SUCH ORDINANCE OR RESOLUTION SHALL BE READ AT
THREE SEVERAL MEETINGS OF THE CITY COUNCIL, AND THE MAYOR HAVING
DECLARED THAT SUCH PUBLIC EMERGENCY AND NECESSITY 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 PASSAGE AND
PUBLI ATION, IT IS ACCORDINGLY SO ORDAINED, THIS THE D AY OF
1962.
MAYOR
ATTEST: THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI EXAS
CIT�ETARY
APPROVED AS TO LEGAL FORM THI
6- DAY OF %ZfV , 1962:
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CITY ATTORNEY //
CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS
DAY OF , 1917-
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 ORDINANCE OR
RESOLUTION SHALL BE PASSED FINALLY ON THE DATE IT IS INTRODUCED AND THAT
SUCH ORDINANCE OR RESOLUTION SHALL BE READ AT THREE MEETINGS OF THE CITY
COUNCIL; 1, THEREFORE, HEREBY REQUEST THAT YOU SUSPEND SAID CHARTER RULE
OR REQUIREMENT AND PASS THIS ORDINANCE FINALLY ON THE DATE IT IS INTRODUCED,
OR AT THE PRESENT MEETING OF THE CITY COUNCIL,
RESPECTFULLY,
MAYOR —
THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI ,TEXAS
THE CHARTER RULE WAS SUSPENDED BY THE FOLLOWING VOTE:
BEN F. MCDONALD
.TOM R. SWANTNER
DR. JAMES L. BARNARD
JOSE R. DELEON
M. P. MA LDONADO
W. J. ROBERTS
JAMES H. YOUNG
THE ABOVE ORDINANCE WAS PASSED BY THE f.,V,.TE,.:
BEN F. MCDONALD
TOM R. SWANTNER
DR. JAMES L. BARNARD
JOSE R. DELEON
M. P. MALDONADO
We J. ROBERTS
JAMES H. YOUNG