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AN ORDINANCE
AMENDING THE CORPUS CHRISTI CITY CODE, 1958, AS AMENDED,
BY AMENDING PORTION OF SECTION 21 -68, AS AMENDED,SO AS
TO FIX SPEED LIMITS ON PORTION OF INTERSTATE HIGHWAY 37
SOUTH FRONTAGE ROAD AND NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, AS SET
FORTH HEREINAFTER; PROVIDING FOR PUBLICATION; REPEALING
ALL ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT HEREWITH; AND DECLARING AN
EMERGENCY.
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 PART OF SECTION 21 -68, AS
AMENDED, SO AS TO FIX THE FOLLOWING SPEED LIMITS ON THE HEREINAFTER NAMED
STREETS OR PORTIONS OF STREETS:
EFFECTIVE
NAME OF STREET SPEED LIMIT TIMES
I. H. 37 SOUTH FRONTAGE ROAD
BEGINNING AT THE CUL -DE-
SAC EAST OF SOUTHERN MINERALS
ROAD (I.H.37, STATION 292 +26)
TO THE CENTERLINE OF RAND
MORGAN ROAD (I.H.37, STATION
507+84) 50 MILES PER HOUR AT ALL TIMES
BEGINNING AT A POINT 1,810
FEET EAST OF THE CENTERLINE
OF VIOLET ROAD (I.H.37,
STATION 615 +78) TO THE CENTER-
LINE OF HART ROAD (I.H.37,
STATION 667 +91) 50 MILES PER HOUR AT ALL TIMES
I.H. 37 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD
BEGINNING AT THE CUL -DE-
SAC EAST OF SOUTHERN MINERALS
ROAD (I.H.37, STATION 292 +12
TO THE CENTERLINE OF VIOLET
ROAD (I.H.37, STATION 632+08) 50 MILES PER HOUR AT ALL TIMES
BEGINNING AT THE CENTERLINE
OF CALLICOATTE ROAD (I.H.37,
STATION ,7101 +(r56) TO I.H. 37
ON -RAMP 4,044 FEET WEST OF
CALLICOATTE ROAD (I.H. 37,
STATION 742 +00) 50 MILES PER HOUR 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. ALL ORDINANCES OR PARTS OF ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT
HEREWITH SHALL BE AND ARE HEREBY REPEALED.
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SECTION 4. THE NECESSITY TO IMMEDIATELY AMEND THE SPEED LIMITS
AS HEREINABOVE SET FORTH CREATES A PUBLIC EMERGENCY AND 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 MEETINGS
OF THE CITY COUNCIL, AND THE MAYOR HAVING DECLARED SUCH EMERGENCY AND NECES-
SITY 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
TAKE EFFECT AND BE IN FULL FORCE AND EFFECT FROM AND AFTER ITS PASSAGE AND
PUBLICATION, IT IS ACCORDINGLY SO ORDAINED, THIS THE 4VI(-) DAY OF
AUGUST, 1969.
ATTEST:
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CITY SECRi 10Y O
THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS
DAY OF AfJGUST, 1969:
CITY ATTOR E
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Corpus Christi, Texas
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TO THE MEMBERS OF THE 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,
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�AYOR
\J THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS
The Charter rule was suspended by the following vote:
Jack R. Blackmon
Gabe Lozano, Sr. __ *C�7
V. A. "Dick"Bradley, Jr.
Eduardo E. de Ases
Ken McDaniel
W. J. "Wrangler" Roberts
Ronnie Sizemore
The above ordinance was passed by the following vote:
Jack R. Blackmon
Gabe Lozano, Sr.
V. A. "Dick" Bradley, Jr.
Eduardo E. de Ases
Ken McDaniel
W. J. "Wrangler" Roberts
Ronnie Sizemore
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