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AN ORDINANCE
AMENDING SECTION 9 -78 OF THE CORPUS CHRISTI CITY
CODE, 1958, AS AMENDED, BY AMENDING SUBSECTION
SO AS TO HEREAFTER REGULATE THE SPEED OF WATERCRAFT
CORPUS CHRISTI .CITY CODE, 19511, AS AMENDED, BY
OPERATED NOT LESS THAN 300 FEET FROM THE WATER'S EDGE;
REPEALING ALL ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT HEREWITH; PROVIDI
A SAVINGS CLAUSE; PROVIDING FOR PUBLICATION.
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, AND THE SAME IS HEREBY, AMENDED BY AMENDING SUBSECTION (A) OF SECTION
9 -78 OF SAID CITY CODE TO HEREAFTER READ AS FOLLOWS:
"(A) ANY PERSON WHO SHALL OPERATE ANY WATERCRAFT ON THE LAKE
BEYOND 300 FEET FROM THE WATERS EDGE IN A CARELESS OR
HEEDLESS MANNER SO AS TO BE GROSSLY INDIFFERENT TO THE
PERSON OR PROPERTY OF OTHER PERSONS, OR AT THE RATE OF
SPEED GREATER THAN WILL PERMIT HIM IN THE EXERCISE OF
REASONABLE CARE TO BRING THE WATERCRAFT TO A STOP WITHIN
THE ASSURED CLEAR DISTANCE AHEAD, SHALL BE GUILTY OF THE
CRIME OF CARELESS OPERATION. WATERCRAFT BEING OPERATED
WITHIN A DISTANCE OF 300 FEET FROM THE WATER'S EDGE
SHALL BE OPERATED AT SPEEDS NOT TO EXCEED FOUR (4)
MILES PER HOUR."
SECTION 2. THAT THE CORPUS CHRISTI CITY CODE, 1958, AS AMENDED,
BE, AND THE SAME IS HEREBY, AMENDED BY AMENDING SUBSECTION (L) OF SECTION
9 -78 OF SAID CITY CODE TO HEREAFTER READ AS FOLLOWS:
"(L) ALL MOTORBOATS HAVING IN TOW OR OTHERWISE ASSISTING A
PERSON ON WATER SKIS, SURFBOARD OR SIMILAR CONTRIVANCE,
SHALL BE OPERATED IN A CAREFUL AND PRUDENT MANNER NOT
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LESS THAN 300 FEET FROM THE WATERS EDGE AND AT A
REASONABLE DISTANCE FROM PERSONS AND PROPERTY SO AS
NOT TO ENDANGER THE LIFE OR PROPERTY OF ANY PERSON."
SECTION 3. THAT ALL ORDINANCES OR PARTS THEREOF IN CONFLICT
WITH THIS ORDINANCE SHALL BE AND ARE HEREBY REPEALED.
SECTION 4. IF FOR ANY REASON ANY SECTION, PARAGRAPH, SUBDIVISION,
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 REGULATIONS RELATE.
SECTION 5. PUBLICATION SHALL BE MADE ONE TIME IN THE OFFICIAL
PUBLICATION OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, AFTER FINAL PASSAGES WHICH
PUBLICATION SHALL CONTAIN THE CAPTION STATING IN SUBSTANCE THE PURPOSE OF
THE ORDINANCE.
THAT THE FOREGOING ORDINANCE WAS READ FOR THE A IRST TIME AND
PAS ED TO ITS SECOND READING ON THIS THE DAY OFIQy ,
BY THE FOLLOWING VOTE:
JACK R. BLACKMON
RONNIE SIZEMORE
V. A. "DICK" BRADLEY, JR.
P. JIMENEZ, JR., M.D. (�(�
GABE LOZANO, SR.
KEN MCDANIEL _
W. J. "WRANGLER" ROBERTS
THAT THE FOREGOING ORDINAN WAS READ FOR TH ECOND TIME AND PA ED
TO ITS THIRD READING ON THIS THE DAY OF
BY THE FOLLOWING VOTE:
JACK R. BLACKMON
RONNIE SIZEMORE
V. A. "DICK" BRADLEY, JR.
P. JIMENEZ, JR., M.D.
GABE LOZANO, SR.
KEN MCDANIEL
W. J. VRANGLER" ROBERTS
THAT THE FORCO ING ORDINANC A READ FOR THE T RD TIME AND PASSED
FINALLY ON THIS THE DAY OF , i9 , BY THE FOLLOW-
ING VOTE:
JACK R. BLACKMON
RONNIE SIZEMORE
V. A. "DICK" BRADLE
P. JIMENEZ, JR., M.
GABE LOZANO, SR.
KEN MCDANIEL
W. J. "WRANGLER" RD
PASSED AND APPROVED, THIS T
ATTEST j
CITY
RE Y
APPROVED AST LEGAL FO M IS THE
DAY OF 19ILL.
CITY ATTORNEY
PUBLISHER'S AFFIDAVIT
IIST'ATE OF TEXAS, L
j County of Nueces.
Before me. the undersigned, a Notary Public, this day personally came_......_
Leland G. Barnes who being first duly sworn, according to law, says that he Is the
C I&E s.1 �Li Acj Ady er t L:LtUE MaqMINK—.- of the Corpus Christi Caller and The Corpus Christi Times,
Daily Newspapers published at Corpus Christi, Texas, in said County and State, and that the publication of
LEGAL—Notice of Passage of Ordinance No 8694--ame din Seotzon 9 -78-
,; egulating the speed of watororait 0HT- a - Corpus Ularisti-
of which the annexed is a true copy, was published in -2h§—ZiMqs—.
on the- 33- day of--2eQMt eZ--..-.
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27 eoeynber. 67
Subscribed and sworn to before me this day of— D . ..... 19_
Louise Vick
Notary Public, Nueces County, Texas
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