HomeMy WebLinkAbout09774 ORD - 05/27/1970AN ORDINANCE
AMENDING THE CORPUS CHRISTI CITY CODE, 1958, AS
AMENDED, BY AMENDING SECTION 29 -13 SO AS TO PROVIDE
THAT THE BOND OR INSURANCE POLICY SPECIFIED FOR
PRIVATE DETECTIVES SHALL BE IN THE SUM OF $10,000
RATHER THAN $3,500, AS PREVIOUSLY PROVIDED; REPEALING
ALL ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT HEREWITH; PROVIDING FOR
PUBLICATION AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.
WHEREAS, the State Legislature has in 1969 adopted Article 4413
(29bb) pertaining to the licensing of detectives and patrol guards in which
Article it is specified that a bond of $10,000 is required; and
WHEREAS, the City ordinance should be in keeping with the State
statute in the amount of bond and insurance required, and it is, there-
fore, necessary to amend the Corpus Christi City Code, 1958, as amended,
so as to increase the amount of bond or insurance required from $3,500, as
presently provided, to $10,000, as now required by the State Licensing Law:
NOW, THEREFORE, 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 Section 29 -13 so that the
same shall hereafter read as follows:
"Section 29 -13. Bond or Insurance Required of Applicant.
Before any license required by this article shall be issued, the
applicant shall furnish to the City a good and sufficient surety bond or
insurance policy. In the event of a surety bond, such bond shall be signed
by some good solvent bonding company authorized to do business in the state
and, in the event of an insurance policy, such policy shall be executed by
some solvent insurance company authorized to do business in the state. The
applicant shall deliver the bond or policy to the Chief of Police for his
approval. Such surety bond or insurance policy shall be in the sum of
$10,000 and shall be conditioned that the obligor therein will pay to the
extent of the face amount of such surety bond or insurance policy, all
judgments which may be recovered against the private detective agency by
reason of the wrongful or illegal acts of its servants, officers, agents,
or employees, committed by them in the course of their employment. Such
surety bond or insurance policy shall further be conditioned that such
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person so injured shall have the right to sue directly upon such surety
bond or insurance policy in his own name, for the collection of a judgment
obtained against the principal in the bond, and the same shall be subject
to successive suits for recovery, until a complete exhaustion of the face
amount thereof. Each private detective shall, on or before the date of
the expiration of his license to do business in the City, file a new surety
bond or insurance policy containing the same terms or obligations as the
preceding surety bond or policy, so as to provide continuous security to
persons so injured, and, in the event any such private detective fails to
execute any surety bond or insurance policy in the first instance, or to
execute any new surety bond or insurance policy, or to file the same with
the Chief of Police as provided herein, it shall constitute grounds for
revoking his license."
SECTION 2. All ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict
herewith are hereby repealed.
SECTION 3. Publication shall be made in the offical publication
of the City of Corpus Christi one time which publication shall contain the
caption stating in substance the purpose of the ordinance.
SECTION 4. The necessity to amend the Corpus Christi City Code as
hereinabove set forth in order to conform to the State statute 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 several meetings of the City Council, and the Mayor, having
declared such emergency and necessity to exist, having requested the suspen-
sion of said Charter rule and that this ordinance be passed finally on the
date of its introduction and that such ordinance take effect and be in full
force and effect from
r �aan��d after its P ssage, IT IS ACCORDINGLY PASSED AND
APPROVED this thec:;27Ab day of "O / 1970.
ATTEST, �✓
Cit�re ary \
APPROVED: �
THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS
DAY OF 1970:
Cit4r.
y
Corpus Christi, Texas
,,2 .day of .1974
TO THE k1EMBERS 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,
YOR
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 fo King vote:
Jack R. Blackmon
Gabe Lozano, Sr.
V. A. "Dick" Bradley, Jr.
Eduardo E. de Ases
Ken McDaniel
W. J. `tdrangler" Roberts -2/
Ronnie Sizemore
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Louise Vick _ Nueces County, Texas