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AN ORDINANCE
PROVIDING FOR THE MAYOR OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI
TO ACCEPT GOOD FAITH BONDS BY CONTRACTORS AND SUBCON-
TRACTORS REGISTERED WITH THE A.C.C., AT CORPUS CHRISTI,
TEXAS, IN THE SU1.1 OF $2,000, WITH ONE CORPORATE SURETY,
FOR THE TER11 OF 'T 0 YEARS, CONDITIONED MAT TILE PRIN-
CIPAL Or, SURETY WILL PAY ALL DAIRAI'-.ES TO PERSONS CAUSED
BY OR ARISING FROM OR CRO14ING OUT OF THE WRONGFUL FRAUD-
ULENT OR ILLEGAL. CONDUCT OF THE CONTRACTOR OR SUBCON-
TRACTOR 1•iHILE CONDUCTING HIS BUSINESS AS SUCH WITHIN THE
CITY; PROVIDING FOR SEVERABILITY: PROVIDING FOR PUBLICA-
TION; AND DECLARING AN E1,1RGENCY.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI,
TEXAS:
SECTION 1. That the Mayor of the City of Corpus Christi be, and
he is hereby, authorized to accept good faith bonds by contractors and sub-
contractors registered with the A.G.C., at Corpus Christi, Texas, in the
sum of $2,000, with one corporate surety, for the term of two years, con-
ditioned that the principal or surety will pay all damages to'persons caused
by or arising from or growing out of the wrongful, fraudulent or illegal con-
duct of the contractor or subcontractor while conducting his business as such
within the City.
SECTION 2. 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 3. 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 4. The necessity to immediately authorize the Mayor of
the City of Corpus Christi to accept good faith bonds by contractors and
subcontractors registered with the A.C.C., at Corpus Christi, as herein-
above more fully set forth, in order that the necessary repair and recon-
struction work may be carried out at this time of emergency 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 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 that such ordinance take
effect and be in full force and effect from and after its passage and
publication, IT IS ACCORDINGLY SO ORDAINED, this the lcq VILIday of
August, 3.970.
ATTEST:
City Secret Y R
THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS
APPROVED:
Z;01 DAY OF AUGUST, 1970:
A ing City Attorney
Corpus Christi, xas
/21_1 Vday of d , 19 %f�
TO THE MENDERS 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 cr
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,
IA OR
THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS
The Charter rule was suspended by the following vote:
Jack R. Blackmon
Gabe Lozano, Sr.
V. A. "Dicle'Bradley, Jr.v
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. L(
s
V. A, "Dick" Bradley, Jr., ,
i
Eduardo E. de Ases
Kea McDaniel
W. J. ',Wrangler" Roberts,
Ronnie Sizemore
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PUBLISHER'S AFFIDAVIT
STATE OF TEXAS,
County of Nueees.
Before me, the undersigned, a Notary Public, this day personally came
.-Iteland—G—Parns . ...... — 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
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Aegai-Raime.
of which the annexed is a true copy, was published in
on the—....15day of AIMMAt._ .............19 -19 , advIMP%M
_.__Times.
'L;eZnd G. Barnes G1. Adv. Mgr.
Subscribed and sworn to before me 19- Y()
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Louise Vick ;Wtwdry-
__A ot Public. Nueces County, Texas
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