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AN ORDINANCE
AMENDING ORDINANCE N0. 8294, GENERALLY REFERRED TO AS
THE"BAY DRILLING ORDINANCE ", AS AMENDED, BY ADDING
SUBSECTION 7.14 THERETO, TO REGULATE SEISMIC SURVEYS
WITHIN THE WATER AREAS OF LAGUNA MADRE AND CORPUS
CHRISTI BAY; PROVIDING 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 ORDINANCE N0. 8294, GENERALLY REFERRED TO AS THE
"BAY DRILLING ORDINANCE ", AS AMENDED, BE AMENDED BY ADDING THERETO SUBSECTION
7.14, READING AS FOLLOWS:
"7.14 SEISMIC SURVEYS. NO GEOPHYSICAL WORK WILL BE PERMITTED
EXCEPT UPON PROPER APPLICATION AND THE PAYMENT OF A $IOQ OO APPLICATION FEE.
A PROPER APPLICATION WILL INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING:
A. LETTER OF APPLICATION REQUESTING A GEOPHYSICAL PERMIT. THE
LETTER SHALL SET OUT THE SYSTEM TO BE EMPLOYED, WHEN IT IS INTENDED TO
BEGIN THE WORK, AND ALSO THE ANTICIPATED DATE OF COMPLETION. A STATEMENT
SHALL ALSO BE MADE RELIEVING THE CITY OF ANY LIABILITY FOR DAMAGES WHICH
MAY RESULT FROM THAT OPERATION PERFORMED BY THE APPLICANT.
B. THE LETTER OF APPLICATION SHALL BE ACCOMPANIED BY A COPY OF
A VALID AND SUBSISTING PUBLIC LIABILITY INSURANCE POLICY.
C. A PLAT OUTLINING THE AREAS PROPOSED TO BE COVERED BY THE
SURVEY.
WHEN THE ABOVE IS PROPERLY SUBMITTED THE SUPERINTENDENT MAY ISSUE
A PERMIT TO THE APPLICANT TO CONDUCT SUCH SEISMIC OR GEOPHYSICAL WORK, IF
BY HIS DETERMINATION, THIS WORK WILL NOT CREATE A PUBLIC NUISANCE NOR BE
CONTRARY TO THE PUBLIC SAFETY. THE DETERMINATION SHALL INCLUDE THE CON-
SIDERATION OF THE FOLLOWING FACTORS:
(A) THE LOCATION OF THE POINT RELATIVE TO SURROUNDING IMPROVE-
MENTS AND THE DISTANCE OF POINT OF EXPLORATION FROM THE
NEAREST MEAN HIGH TIDE SHORELINE;
(B) THE QUANTITY AND NATURE OF THE PROPOSED SEISMIC SURVEY
TO BE USED IN IMPLEMENTING THE EXPLORATION;
(C) THE DEPTH IN THE STRUCTURE FROM THE BAY BOTTOM AT WHICH
THE SEISMIC SURVEY WILL BE OPERATIONAL;
(D) THE PENDENCY OF OTHER ACTIVITIES IN THE BAY AT AND
ADJACENT TO THE POINT OF EXPLORATION.
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SECTION 2. IF FOR ANY REASON ANY SECTION, PARAGRAPH, SUBDIVISION,
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 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 FOR THE CITY TO REGULATE SEISMIC OR
GEOPHYSICAL WORK WITHIN THE WATER AREAS OF LAGUNA MADRE AND CORPUS CHRISTI
BAY 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, AND HAVING
REQUESTED THE SUSPENSION OF THE CHARTER RULE 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 4/ XtDAY OF �1 , 1970.
ATTEST:
CE LCI Y CRETARY
APPROVED:
.,/--v-DAY OF ®�dfz�ri_ 1970:
�&Y ATTORNEY
rTHE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS
Corpus Chris ti,�T_e_x�a_s n
AI Ltday of 02: ¢� , 197.
TO THE IEINBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL
Corpus Christi, Texas
For the reasons set forth in the emergency clause of the foregoing
ordinance, a_publi.c 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. "DicV'Bradley, Jr.
Eduardo E. de Ases
Ken McDaniel
W. J. "Wrangler" Roberts
Ronnie Sizemore
The above ordinance was passed by the fo owing 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, J,.
County of Nuem. f '
L Before me, the undersigned, a Notary Public, this day personally came ...........
Leland G. Barnes
who being first duly sworn, according to law, says that he Is the
Classified Manager
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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of which the annexed is a true copy, was published in . ..... .
on the.-2.&- day of----Qctob=-.-- 19-7.CL, sold-once-eattt.---tUeaeaLLev-fft--.--.—
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Subscribed and sworn to before me
Louise Vick
&nd G. Barnes, Cl. Adv. M
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