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TEXAS:
AN ORDINANCE
AMENDING THE CORPUS CHRISTI CITY CODE, 1958, AS
AMENDED, BY AMENDING CHAPTER 23 BY ADDING A NEW
SECTION NUMBERED 23 -43 PERTAINING TO VEHICLES ON
CITY PROPERTY AT ANY PLACE NOT DESIGNATED OR IN-
TENDED FOR THE OPERATION OF VEHICLES; PROVIDING
A SEVERANCE CLAUSE; PROVIDING A PENALTY; PROVIDING
FOR PUBLICATION; AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI,
SECTION 1. THAT THE CORPUS CHRISTI CITY CODE, 1958, AS AMENDED,
BE, AND THE SAME IS HEREBY AMENDED BY AMENDING CHAPTER 23 BY ADDING A NEW
SECTION TO SAID CHAPTER TO BE NUMBERED SECTION 23 -43, PERTAINING TO VEHICLES
ON CITY PROPERTY AT ANY PLACE NOT DESIGNATED OR INTENDED FOR THE OPERATION
OF VEHICLES, AND READING AS FOLLOWS:
"SEC. 23 -43. VEHICLES IN PARKS PROHIBITED,
�'IT SHALL ec uNIAWFU� FOR ANY PERSON TO DRIVE OR OPERATE ANYy_
,VEHICLE, AS DEFINED IN VERNON'S CIVIL STATUTES ARTICLE 6701D,,`YN ANY PARK
OR PARKWAY} OR 1]flL.ANY MFn1AN 3TR-_IP,_OR IN_ANY PLACE NOT DESIGNED aIt- TNTENDED
;FOR THE THE-ON OF VERICLES� - INCLUDED IN SUCH PLACES, IT IS SPECIALLY
;P.RO-VfiIIED THAT BRIDLE PATHS AND AREAS DESIGNATED FOR HIKERS OR BICYCLISTS
ARE AMONG T- H8S{�ptACES Hy- OH-- qRE --- NOT -0ES- 1vn;= ;<„R-- I- t+FT- ENIIEII ^R rNF npcRerl _ --
"VEHICLES AND EQUIPMENT USED IN THE MAINTENANCE OF PARKS AND PARK-
WAYS, WHILE BEING USED FOR SUCH MAINTENANCE PURPOSES, SHALL BE EXEMPT FROM
THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SECTION."
SECTION 2. 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 3. ANY PERSON, FIRM OR CORPORATION, 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).
9438
SECTION 4. PUBLICATION SHALL BE MADE ONE TIME IN THE OFFICIAL
PUBLICATION OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, WHICH PUBLICATION SHALL CONTAIN
THE CAPTION STATING IN SUBSTANCE THE PURPOSE OF THE ORDINANCE AND THE
PENALTY FOR VIOLATION THEREOF.
SECTION 5. THE NECESSITY FOR IMMEDIATE PROHIBITION OF THE USE
OF VEHICLES ON BRIDLE PATHS AND BICYCLE WAYS, AS WELL AS PARKS, PARKWAYS
AND MEDIANS, 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 ORDI-
NANCE OR RESOLUTION SHALL BE READ AT THREE SEVERAL MEETINGS OF THE CITY
COUNCIL, AND THE MAYOR HAVING DECLARED THAT SUCH EMERGENCY AND NECESSITY
EXIST, HAVING REQUESTED THAT SUCH CHARTER RULE BE SUSPENDED AND THIS ORDI-
NANCE 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 PUBLICATION,IT
IS ACCORDINGLY SO ORDAINED, THIS THEAd_AY OF , 1969.
ATTEST: �(
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CIT SECRETA Y O
THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS
APPROVED:
DAY OF ig6g:
CITY ATTORN
Corpus Christi, Texas
o /r-lday of
TO THE MEMBERS OF TEE CITY COUNCIL
Corpus Christi, Texas
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,
MA OR
TEE CI Y OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS
The Charter rule was suspended by the following vote:
Jack R. Blackmon
Gabe Lozano, Sr.
V. A. "Dick"Bradley, Jr.
Eduardo E. de Ases
Ken McDaniel 7
W. J. "Wrangler" Roberts,
Ronnie Sizemore
The above ordinance was passed by the following vote:
Jack R. Blackmon
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Gabe Lozano, Sr. .
V. A. "Dick" Bradley, Jr eq
Eduardo E. de Ases
Ken McDaniel �.
W. J. 'Wrangler" Roberts `
Ronnie Sizemore
PUBLISHER"S AFFIDAVIT
STATE OF TEXAS, t8s:
County of Nuem. 3
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
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Daily Newspapers published at Corpus Christi, Texas, in said County and State, and that the Publication Of
"Notice of Passage of Ordinance No. 9438"
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