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AN ORDINANCE
AMENDING THE CORPUS CHRISTI CITY CODE, 1958, AS AMENDED,
BY ADDING A NEW SECTION, TO BE NUMBERED SECTION 13 -25A,
PERMITTING THE CORPORATION COURT JUDGE IN HIS DISCRETION
TO ALLOW PRISONERS WHO HAVE BEEN FINED IN THE CORPORATION
COURT TO SERVE OUT THEIR FINE WRING OFF -WORK HOURS OR ON
WEEKENDS; PROVIDING FOR PUBLICATION; PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE
DATE; AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI,
TEXAS:
SECTION 1. THAT THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI CITY CODE, 1958, AS
AMENDED, BE AND THE SAME IS HEREBY AMENDED BY ADDING THERETO A NEW SECTION,
TO BE NUMBERED SECTION 13 -25A, AND HEREAFTER READING AS FOLLOWS:
"SECTION 13 -25A. IN ANY CASE WHERE A FINE HAS BEEN ASSESSED BY
THE COURT, THE TRIAL JUDGE MAY, WHEN IN HIS DISCRETION THE ENDS OF JUSTICE
WOULD BE BEST SERVED, ALLOW THE DEFENDANT TO SERVE JAIL TIME IN LIEU OF
FINE, DURING HIS OFF -WORK HOURS, OR ON WEEKENDS. IN ANY CASE IN WHICH THE
JUDGE PERMITS THE DEFENDANT TO SERVE OUT HIS FINE IN THE ABOVE MANNER, IT
MUST BE SERVED ON CONSECUTIVE DAYS OR ON THE SAME DAY OR DAYS OF CONSECU-
TIVE WEEKS OR ON CONSECUTIVE WEEKENDS. THE TRIAL JUDGE MAY REQUIRE BAIL OF
THE DEFENDANT TO INSURE THE FAITHFUL PERFORMANCE OF THE COURTS ORDER. THE
TRIAL JUDGE MAY ATTACH CONDITIONS REGARDING THE EMPLOYMENT, TRAVEL AND OTHER
CONDUCT OF THE DEFENDANT DURING THE PERFORMANCE OF THE DUTIES IMPOSED BY
THE COURTS ORDER.
"THE TRIAL JUDGE MAY REQUIRE RECOMMENDATION OF THE WELFARE
OFFICERS OR REFERENCES FROM OTHER SOURCES IN DETERMINING WHETHER OR NOT
IN HIS DISCRETION THE DEFENDANT SHOULD BE PERMITTED TO SERVE HIS FINE IN
THE MANNER PROVIDED BY THIS ORDINANCE."
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 CITY CODE AS HEREINABOVE
DESCRIBED AT THE EARLIEST POSSIBLE DATE IN ORDER TO ENABLE THE TRIAL JUDGE
TO USE HIS DISCRETION TO ALLOW PRISONERS WHO HAVE BEEN FINED IN THE
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CORPORATION COURT TO SERVE OUT THEIR FINE, 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
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 INTRODUC-
TION 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 FEBRUARY, 1968.
ATTEST:
CITY ECRETA Y� 0
THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS
APPROVED AS TO LEGAL FORM THI
'DAY OF FEBRUARY, 1968:
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CITY ATTORNEY --
TO THE MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL
CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS
i
CORPUS CHRISTI TEXAS / j�
DAY OF _;� '9(OO
FOR THE REASONS SET FORTH IN THE EMERGENCY CLAUSE OF THE FOREGOING
ORDINANCE, A PUBLIC EMERGENCY AND IMPERATIVE NECESSITY EXIST FOR THE SUSPEN-
SION 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,
REQUEST THAT YOU SUSPEND SAID CHARTER RULE OR REQUIREMENT AND PASS THIS ORDI-
NANCE FINALLY ON THE DATE IT IS INTRODUCED OR AT THE PRESENT MEETING OF THE
CITY COUNCIL.
RESPECTFULLY,/
J
4BTHE E CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS
THE CHARTER RULE WAS SUSPEND FOLLO WING VOTE:
JACK R. BLACKMON
RONNIE SIZEMORE
V. A. "DICK" BRADLEY, JR.
P. JIMENEZ, JR., M.D. QGi
GABE LOZANO, SR.
KEN MCDANIEL
W. J. "WRANGLER" ROBERTS
THE ABOVE ORDINANCE WAS PASSED BY THE FOLLOWING VOTE:
JACK R. BLACKMON
RONNIE SIZEMORE
V. A. "DICK" BRADLEY JR.,4.�
P. JIMENEZ, JR., M.D.
GABE LOZANO, SR.
KEN MCDANIEL
AI-
W. J. "WRANGLER" ROBERTS
PUBLISHER'S AFFIDAVIT
STATE OF TEXAS,
County of Nueces. j
Before me, the undersigned. a Notary Public, this day personally came............_._...__
......... ................. who being first duly sworn, according to law, says that he is the
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
LY>O--allOw Prisoners —who have been fined In Corp Court to work out Pines on
of which the annexed is a true copy, was published lnotLJ29=13
on the_ 1.4_ day 1"fl,)UEKXMHKMM
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ver s nager
Subscribed and sworn to before me this day 4 UW911 ----- - - . ...... .
Louise Vlok
'�iotary Public, Nueces County, Texas
;RC IN /NCc NO. 87M I
AMENDING THE CORPUS
CHRISTI CITY CODE, 19W A.
-,1 tE t:O ED, B� ADDING A NEW
I. - �TION, TU SE NU!ASERE0
�-' STCTION 1::.'A, PERMITTING
THE CiRPCP.CT i O19 COURT
JUDGE IN HIS DISCRE T101I TO
ALLOW PRISONE1,S WHO
HAVE BEEN PINED IN THE
CORPORATION COURT TO
SERVE OUT THEIR FINE DUR-
ING OFFWORK HOURS OR
ON WEEKENDS: PROWol NG
FOR PUBLICATION: PROVIO-
ING AN EFFECTIVE OATS;
AND DECLARING AN EMER-
GENCY.
WAS PASSED AND APPROVED W
the Clty Cwndl a1 the Oty of C.'p.
OIrHN, at Ite rthlu r meellnv held of
i R:00 P.M., On iM71h EaY of Febru•
ary, 1968, and prwldn that H shall
Coke aHecf from aret atfer Ih Oae-
Be and PUbllrnibn, antl iM1VF a pert -
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Da`r
- - T. RAY KRING, C11Y Secretary
CIN a8 Carp. Chrlell, Tee-.