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AN ORDINANCE
AMENDING SECTION 38-49 OF THE CORPUS CHRISTI CITY
CODE, 1958, BY AMENDING THE SCHEDULE OF SEWER RATES
TO PROVIDE FOR AN INCREASE IN RATES; PROVIDING FOR
SEVERABILITY; AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS
CHRISTI, TEXAS:
SECTION 1. THAT SECTION 38 -49 OF THE CORPUS CHRISTI CITY
CODE, 1958, AS AMENDED, BE AMENDED BY AMENDING THE SCHEDULE OF SEWER
RATES TO PROVIDE AN INCREASE IN RATES, AND TO HEREAFTER READ AS FOLLOWS:
"SECTION 38-49. SCHEDULE.
THE MONTHLY CHARGE TO BE PAID BY USERS OF SEWER SERVICE
FURNISHED BY THE CITYtS MUNICIPAL SEWER SYSTEM, EXCEPT AS PROVIDED IN
SECTIONS 38 -5 AND 38 -50 OF THE CODE, SHALL BE BASED ON THE AMOUNT OF
WATER USED BY SUCH USERS INSIDE THE CITY LIMITS AND OUTSIDE THE CITY
LIMITS ACCORDING TO THE FOLLOWING SCHEDULE OF RATES BASED ON WATER
CONSUMPTION:
SCHEDULE OF RATES BASED ON WATER CONSUMPTION
CLASS INSIDE CITY LIMITS OUTSIDE CITY LIMITS
MINIMUM $1.20 $2.40
ONE- FAMILY MAXIMUM 3.00 6.00
TWO - FAMILY MAXIMUM 4.50 9.00
THE ACTUAL CHARGES WITHIN THE ABOVE MINIMUMS AND MAXIMUMS,
AS WELL AS THE CHARGE FOR ALL OTHER SEWER USERS, WILL BE COMPUTED AS
CENTS PER ONE THOUSAND GALLONS OF WATER USED AS FOLLOWS:
INSIDE CITY LIMITS CENTS PER 1,000 GALLONS OF
WATER USED
FIRST 10 THOUSAND GALLONS OF WATER $.30
NEXT 190 THOUSAND GALLONS OF WATER .20
OVER 200 THOUSAND GALLONS OF WATER .10
OUTSIDE CITY LIMITS
FIRST 10 THOUSAND GALLONS OF WATER
NEXT 190 THOUSAND GALLONS OF WATER
OVER 200 THOUSAND GALLONS OF WATER
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SECTION 2. THAT THIS ORDINANCE SHALL BE EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY
AFTER THE METER READINGS OF CYCLE ONE ON OR ABOUT AUGUST 1, 1970, AND
SHALL BE USED TO COMPUTE THE BILLING FOR CYCLE ONE BASED ON METER READINGS
ON OR ABOUT SEPTEMBER 1, 1970 AND ON ALL BILLINGS OF ALL CYCLES THEREAFTER.
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SECTION 3. IF FOR ANY REASON ANY SECTION, PARAGRAPH, SUBDIVI-
SION, 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 4. THE NECESSITY TO REVISE THE RATES FOR SEWER SERVICE
IN THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI AND OUTSIDE THE CITY LIMITS, AS ABOVE SET
FORTH IN SECTION 1 HEREOF, 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 THEDATE OF ITS INTRO-
DUCTION BUT 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 AS HEREINABOVE PROVIDED AND BE IN
FULL FORCE AND EFFECT FROM AND AFTER ITS PASSAGE, IT IS ACCORDINGLY SO
ORDAINED, THIS THE 29TH DAY OF JULY, 1970.
ATTEST:
THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS
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TO THE p1EMJ3ERS 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. "Dicl2'Bradley, Jr.
Eduardo E. de Ases
Ken McDaniel
W. J. "Wrangler" Roberts
Ronnie Sizemore
The above ordinance was passed by the follow "'g 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
STATE OF TEXAS, L
County of Nueces.
Before me, the undersigned, a Notary Public, this day personally came
who being first duly sworn, according to law, says that he is the
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
Legal Not ic e---- NOTICE OF PASSAGE OF ORDINANCE NO (tax go,
of which the annexed is a true copy, was published in tk 2.140.5
on day of____ugust— 19OE., eateUMORAGL
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and G. Barnes, C • Adv. Mgr.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this ...7..... of— august 19..70—
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Louise Vick otary Public, Nueces County, Texas