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AN ORDINANCE
AMENDING THE CORPUS CHRISTI CITY CODE, 1958, AS AMENDED,
AND PARTICULARLY AS AMENDED BY ORDINANCE 7303, SO AS TO
CHANGE THE SCHEDULE OF GAS RATES FOR CUSTOMERS OR CON-
SUMERS OF THE CITY -OWNED GAS DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM BY AMEND-
ING SECTION 38 -46 SO AS TO PROVIDE A NEW SCHEDULE OF BILL-
ING FOR GENERAL RATE CUSTOMERS USING QUANTITIES EXCEEDING
2,000 MCF PER MONTH; PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE; PROVID-
ING A SEVERANCE CLAUSE; PROVIDING FOR PUBLICATION; AND
DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS
CHRISTI, TEXAS:
SECTION 1. THAT SECTION 38-46 OF THE CORPUS CHRISTI CITY CODE,
1958, AS AMENDED, AND PARTICULARLY AS AMENDED BY ORDINANCE N0. 7303, ADOPTED
JULY 29, 1964, SE AND THE SAME IS HEREBY AMENDED SO AS TO CHANGE THE ITEM
UNDER "GENERAL RATE CUSTOMERS" WHICH NOW READS "ALL OVER 20000 MCF PER MONTH
@ .24 ", TO HEREAFTER READ AS FOLLOWS:
PRICE PER MCF
GENERAL RATE CUSTOMER GAS RATE FOR INSIDE OUTSIDE
BUSINESS, COMMERCIAL, INDUSTRIAL CITY LIMITS CITY LIMITS
II NEXT 13,000 MCF PER MONTH @ ,24 ,24
NEXT 15,000 MCF PER MONTH @ -37 37
ALL OVER 30,000 MCF PER MONTH Q .31 ,31i1,
SECTION 2. THAT THE RATES SET FORTH IN SECTION 1 OF THIS ORDINANCE
FOR "GENERAL RATE CUSTOMERS11 SHALL BE EFFECTIVE AT ALL TIMES FROM AND AFTER
JULY 1, 1970.
SECTION 3. IF FOR ANY REASON ANY SECTION, PARAGRAPH, 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 4. THE TENTH ITEM UNDER "GENERAL RATE CUSTOMERS11 AS SET
FORTH IN ORDINANCE N0. 7303, IS BY THE ADOPTION OF THIS ORDINANCE HEREBY
REPEALED, BUT NO CHARGES ACCRUING UNDER SAID PREVIOUS TENTH ITEM SHALL BE
ALTERED, RELEASED, RELINQUISHED OR REVOKED. ALL OTHER PROVISIONS RELATING TO
RATES AND CHARGES FOR GAS OR SERVICES FURNISHED BY THE GAS DIVISION OF THE
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC UTILITIES OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI SHALL NOT BE
AFFECTED OTHER THAN AS HEREIN PROVIDED.
SECTION 5. 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.
SECTION 6. THE NECESSITY FOR IMMEDIATELY REVISING THAT SCHEDULE
OF GAS RATES OF THE CITY -OWNED GAS DISTRIBUTING SYSTEM OF THE CITY OF CORPUS
CHRISTI AS HEREINABOVE SET OUT CREATES A PUBLIC EMERGENCY AND AN IMPERATIVE
PUBLIC NECESSITY REQUIRING THE SUSPENSION OF THE CHARTER RULE THAT NO ORDI-
NANCE 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 THAT SUCH EMERGENCY AND
NECESSITY EXIST, AND HAVING REQUESTED THAT SUCH CHARTER RULE BE SUSPENDED,
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, IT IS
ACCORDINGLY SO ORDAINED, THIS THE -'Wt DAY OF JUNE, 1970.
ATTEST:
CITY SECRETAR / MA OR
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E CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS
APPROVED: -
1 DAY DF UNE, 1970:
TING CITY ATy NEY
Corpus Christi Texas
may o 19—&-
Cam'
TO THE NE11BERS 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,
J
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 Vwing
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
STATE OF TEXAS, La:
County of Nueces. j
Before me, the undersigned, a Notary Public, this day personally came........___
Leland ... GP . ........ — who being first duly sworn, according to law, says that he is the
--.Gla.S.Sifled ... MaMP-sr . . .. . .. . ................ 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
of which the annexed is a true copy, was published in 1 he_ fly ......_.._ — ------
on the —..2Z day of =*MEMSeh •.....
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Subscribed and sworn to before me 0 'L day of - - ------ JU1Y - ------------------ - - - ---------
Subsc is .......
Louise Vick
Notary Public, Nueees County, Texas