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AN ORDINANCE %
AMENDING SECTION 21 -68 OF THE CORPUS CHRISTI CITY CODE,
1958, AS AMENDED, BY AMENDING,THE SPEED LIMITS ON THE r
CROSSTOWN EXPRESSWAY (S.H. 286) AS HEREINAFTER SET FORTH;
PROVIDING FOR PUBLICATION; AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.
BE FT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI,
TEXAS:
SECTION 1. THAT SECTION 21 -68 OF THE CORPUS CHRISTI CITY CODE,
1958, AS AMENDED, BE AND THE SAME IS HEREBY AMENDED BY AMENDING THE SPEED
LIMITS ON THE CROSSTOWN EXPRESSWAY (S.H. 286) WITHIN THE CITY OF CORPUS
CHRISTI, NUECES COUNTY, TEXAS, AS FOLLOWS:
NAME OF STREET SPEED LIMIT EFFECTIVE TIME
CROSSTOWN EXPRESSWAY
(S.H.286):
FROM I. H. 37 TO A POINT
70.3 FEET SOUTH OF LIPAN
STREET 0 MPH MAXIMUM AT ALL TIMES
O MPH MINIMUM
FROM A POINT 70.3 FEET
SOUTH OF LIPAN STREET TO
A POINT 523.52 FEET SOUTH
OF BALDWIN BOULEVARD 60 MPH MAXIMUM
50 MPH MINIMUM AT ALL TIMES
FROM A POINT 523.52 FEET
SOUTH OF BALDWIN BOULEVARD
TO A POINT SOUTH A DISTANCE
OF 1525 FEET 60 MPH MAXIMUM AT ALL TIMES
SECTION 2. PUBLICATION SHALL BE MADE IN THE OFFICIAL PUBLICATION
OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI ONE TIME WHICH PUBLICATION SHALL CONTAIN THE
CAPTION STATING IN SUBSTANCE THE PURPOSE OF THE ORDINANCE.
SECTION 3. THE NECESSITY TO AMEND THE CODE AS HEREINABOVE SET
FORTH CREATES A PUBLIC EMERGENCY AND AN IMPERATIVE PUBLIC NECESSITY REQUIR-
ING 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 MEETINGS OF THE
CITY COUNCIL, AND THE MAYOR HAVING DECLARED SUCH EMERGENCY AND NECESSITY
TO EXIST, AND HAVING REQUESTED THE SUSPENSION OF THE CHARTER RULE AND
THAT THIS ORDINANCE BE PASSED FINALLY ON THE DATE OF ITS INTRODUCTION AND stir
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TAKE EFFECT AND BE IN FULL FORCE AND EFFECT` OFFROOM AND AFTER ITS PASSAGE,
IT IS ACCORDINGLY SO ORDAINED, THIS THE v` r/ DAY of FEBRUARY, 1966.
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ATTEST: THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS
I Z CITY SECRETARY
A P t0 F AS LEGAL FORM TO
7' "DAY OF F�Y, 1966:
ASSISTANT CITY 'f`IRN EY
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CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS
�e DAY OF '19
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; I, THEREFORE, HEREBY REQUEST THAT YOU SUSPEND SAID CHARTER RULE
OR REQUIREMENT AND PASS THIS ORDINANCE FINALLY ON THE DATE IT IS INTRO -
DUCED, 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:
DR. MC IVER FURMAN --__-I�l! -
JACK BLACKMON
PATRICK J. DUNNE
DR. P. JIMENEZ, JR.
KEN MCDANIEL
RONNIE SIZEMORE
WM. H. WALLACE i
THE ABOVE ORDINANCE WAS PASSED BY THE FOLLOWI VOTE:
DR. MCIVER FURMAN
JACK BLACKMON
PATRICK J. DUNNE
DR. P. JIMENEZ, JR.
KEN MCDANIEL
RONNIE SIZEMORE
WM. H. WALLACE