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AN ORDINANCE
AMENDING SECTION 38 -32 OF ARTICLE V AND SECTION
38 -48 OF ARTICLE VII OF THE CORPUS CHRISTI CITY
CODE, 1958, AS AMENDED, TO REDUCE THE CHARGES FOR
FOR THE
RECONNECTING AND REPLACING
GAS FROMTWOE
DOLLARS OF WATER ($2.00) TO ONENG
DOLLAR($1.00); PROVIDING A SAVINGS CLAUSE; PRO-
VIDING FOR PUBLICATION; AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS
CHRISTI, TEXAS:
SECTION 1. THAT SECTION 38 -32 OF ARTICLE V OF THE CORPUS
CHRISTI CITY CODE, AS AMENDED, BE AND THE SAME IS HEREBY AMENDED
BY AMENDING PARAGRAPH TWO TO HEREAFTER READ AS FOLLOWS:
"A SERVICE CHARGE OF ONE DOLLAR MUST BE PAID, IF PAYMENT OF
THE DELINQUENCY 15 NOT MADE, IN PERSON AT THE PUBLIC UTILITIES OFFICE
PRIOR TO 8:00 A. M. ON THE DATE WHICH CUSTOMER HAS BEEN PREVIOUSLY
NOTIFIED THAT HIS WATER SERVICE IS TO BE DISCONNECTED DUE TO FAILURE
TO PAY A DELINQUENT BILL IN ORDER TO OBTAIN A RECONNECTION. CUSTOMER'S
FAILURE TO RECEIVE NOTIFICATION OF DATE TO BE DISCONNECTED DOES NOT
EXEMPT HIM FROM PAYING THE SERVICE CHARGE. THIS SERVICE CHARGE IS
NECESSARY TO COVER ALL COSTS IN HANDLING AND COLLECTING A DELINQUENT
ACCOUNT."
SECTION 2. THAT SECTION 38 -48 OF ARTICLE VII OF THE CORPUS
IS HEREBY AMENDED BY
CHRISTI CITY CODE, AS AMENDED, BE AND THE SAME
AMENDING PARAGRAPH TWO TO HEREAFTER READ AS FOLLOWS:
"A SERVICE CHARGE OF ONE DOLLAR MUST BE PAID IF PAYMENT OF THE
DELINQUENCY IS NOT MADE IN PERSON AT THE PUBLIC UTILITIES OFFICE PRIOR
TO 8:00 A. M. ON THE DATE WHICH CUSTOMER HAS BEEN PREVIOUSLY NOTIFIED
THAT HIS GAS SERVICE IS TO BE DISCONNECTED DUE TO FAILURE TO PAY A
DELINQUENT BILL. CUSTOMER'S FAILURE TO RECEIVE NOTIFICATION OF DATE
TO BE DISCONNECTED DOES NOT EXEMPT HIM FROM PAYING THE SERVICE CHARGE.
THE SERVICE CHARGE IS NECESSARY TO COVER ALL COSTS IN HANDLING AND
COLLECTING A DELINQUENT ACCOUNT."
SECTION 3. ALL ORDINANCES OR PARTS OF ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT
HEREWITH SHALL BE AND ARE HEREBY REPEALED.
SECTION 4. PUBLICATION SHALL BE MADE IN THE OFFICIAL PUBLI-
CATION OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, ONE TIME, WHICH PUBLICATION
SHALL CONTAIN THE CAPTION STATING IN SUMMARY THE PURPOSE OF THE ORDINANCE.
SECTION 5. THE NECESSITY FOR AMENDING THE CODE AS ABOVE SET
FORTH CREATES A PUBLIC EMERGENCY AND AN IMPERATIVE PUBLIC NECESSITY
REQUIRING THE SUSPENSION OF THE CHARTER RULE THAT NO ORDINANCE OR
RESOLUTION SHALL BE PASSED FINALLY ON THE DATE OF ITS INTRODUCTION AND
THAT SUCH ORDINANCE OR RESOLUTION SHALL BE READ AT THREE SEVERAL MEET-
INGS OF THE CITY COUNCIL, AND THE MAYOR, HAVING DECLARED SUCH EMERGENCY
AND NECESSITY TO EXIST, HAVING REQUESTED THE SUSPENSION OF SAID CHARTER
RULE AND THAT THIS ORDINANCE BE PASSED FINALLY ON THE DATE OF ITS INTRO-
DUCTION AND TAKE EFFECT AND BE IN FULL FORCE AND EFFECT FROM AND AFTER
ITS PASSAGE AND PUBLICATION, IT IS ACCORDINGLY SO ORDAINED, THIS THE
DAY OF MARCH, 1963-
ATTEST:
AYOR
THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS
TY SECRETA Y
APPROVED TO LEGAL FO THIS
_DAY OF MARCH, 1963;
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CITY ATftRNE
Corpus Christi, Texas
/Lday of , 19_�
TO THE X=FaS 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; I, 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 CHIRIISTI, '
The Charter rule was suspended by the following vote:
Ben F. McDonald_
Tom R. Swantner
Dr. James L. Barnard
Jose R. DeLeon
M. P. Maldonado
W. J. Roberts
James R. Young
The above ordinance was passed by the
Ben F. McDonald
Tom R. swantner
Dr. James L. Barnard
Jose R. DeLeon
M. P. Maldonado
W. J. Roberts
James H. Young