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AN ORDINANCE
ESTABLISHING RATES OF FARE FOR TAXICABS FOR ONE OR
MORE PERSONS AT FORTY -FIVE CENTS (45¢) FOR THE FIRST
TWO- FIFTHS (2/ ) OF A MILE OR FRACTION THEREOF, AND
TEN CENTS (100) ADDITIONAL FOR EACH SUCCEEDING ONE-
FOURTH (114) OF A MILE OR FRACTION THEREOF, AND
PROVIDING FOR WAITING TIME FARE; REPEALING ALL PREVIOUS '
TAXICAB RATE ORDINANCES; PROVIDING FOR PUBLICATION; AND
DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI,
TEXAS:
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SECTION 1. THERE IS HEREBY ESTABLISHED AS THE RATES OF FARE
FOR TAXICABS WITHIN THE CITY LIMITS OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI FOR
ONE OR MORE PERSONS, NOT EXCEEDING FIVE PERSONS, OF FORTY -FIVE CENTS
(45¢) FOR THE FIRST TWO- FIFTHS (2/5) OF A MILE OR LESS, AND TEN CENTS
(10¢) ADDITIONAL FOR EACH SUCCEEDING ONE- FOURTH (114) OF A MILE OR
FRACTION THEREOF.
SECTION 2. FOR EACH ONE MINUTE OF WAITING TIME THE MAXIMUM
CHARGE SHALL BE TEN CENTS (10¢).
SECTION 3. ALL ORDINANCES FIXING RATES FOR TAXICAB FARES
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HERETOFORE IN EXISTENCE ARE HEREBY REPEALED.
SECTION 4. THIS ORDINANCE SHALL TAKE EFFECT AFTER ITS PUBLICA-
TION ONE TIME IN THE OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI,
WHICH PUBLICATION SHALL CONTAIN THE CAPTION STATING IN SUMMARY THE PUR-
POSE OF THE ORDINANCE, AND MODIFICATION OF TAXICAB METERS TO REFLECT THESE
RATES.
SECTION 5. THE NECESSITY TO PROVIDE PROPER, SUFFICIENT AND
ADEQUATE TAXICAB SERVICE IS ESSENTIAL TO AND IN THE BEST INTEREST OF THE
WELFARE OF THE CITIZENS OF CORPUS CHRISTI, AND THE FACT THAT THIS ORDINANCE
IS NECESSARY TO OBTAIN SUCH RESULTS, 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 SAID ORDINANCE OR RESOLUTION SHALL BE READ AT
THREE SEVERAL MEETINGS OF THE CITY COUNCIL, AND THE MAYOR HAVING DECLARED
THAT SUCH EMERGENCY AND NECESSITY EXIST AND REQUESTED THAT SAID CHARTER
RULE BE SUSPENDED, AND THAT THIS ORDINANCE BE PASSED FINALLY ON THE
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DATE OF ITS INTRODUCTION AND BE IN FULL FORCE FROM AND AFTER ITS PASSAGE
AND PUBLICATION, IT IS ACCORDINGLY SO ORDAINED, THIS THE f f� DAY of
NOVEMBER, 1969.
ATTEST:
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THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS
APPROVED:
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° 4 DAY OF NOVEMBER, 1969:
Cl TY- ATTOk NE Y
Corpus Christi, Texas
—ffday of , 19�
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,
IAYOR
THE CITY 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
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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PUBLISHER'S AFFIDAVIT L__L'
STATE OF TEXAS, �ss:
County of Nueces.
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Daily Newspapers published at Corpus Christi, Texas, in said County and State, and that the publication of
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