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HomeMy WebLinkAbout10872 ORD - 05/24/1972SRR:1iG:bjw:ml:5- 24- 72;2nd AN ORDINANCE Cu \ AMENDING SEC. 2 -7, CORPUS CHRISTI CITY CODE, 1958, AS AMENDED, SO AS TO CHANGE THE CITY COUNCIL MEETING ON WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON TO 3:00 P.M.; PROVIDING FOR SEVER - ABILITY; PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE, AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY. . BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS: SECTION 1. That Sec. 2 -7, Corpus Christi City Code, 1928, as amended, and as particularly amended by Ordinance No. 4205, Sec. 1, passed and approved on May 4, 1955, be and the same is hereby amended to read as follows: "Section 2 -7. When and where meetings to be held. The City Council shall meet in the council chamber in regular sessions every Wednesday afternoon at 3:00 P.M. and at such other time as it may be called by the mayor, the mayor pro - tempore, the-city manager or by a majority of the members thereof." SECTION 2. If for any reason any section, paragraph, subdivision, clause, phrase, word, or provision of this ordinance shall be held invalid or unconstitutional by final judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction it shall not affect any other section, paragraph, subdivision, clause, phrase, word, or provision of this ordinance, for it is the definite intent of this City Council that every section, paragraph, subdivision, clause, phrase, word, or provision hereof be given full force and effect for its purpose. SECTION 3. The effective date of this ordinance changing the time of the City Council meeting shall be May 31, 1972, so that date shall be the first meeting at 3:00 P.M. SECTION 4. The necessity to provide for a more convenient time for the meeting time of the City Council creates a public emergency and 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 'such 10872 872 .k 6/ 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 day of May, 1972. ATTEST: City Secr t y/ 7 o APPROVED: L4 AY OF MAY, 1972: CA y�At /grney,1z O MAYOR - THE CITY OF CORP(!"9t1RISTI, TEXAS CORPUS //�� CHRISTI, TEXAS pC•�A —DAY OF !� zz TO THE MEMBERS 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; 1, 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. e - ELY, a� MAYOR THE CITY OF CORP S RIST1, TEXAS THE CHARTER RULE WAS SUSPENDED BY THE FOLLOWING VOTE: • _ BONNIE S12EMORE - CHARLES A. BONNIWELI - ROBERTO BOSQUEZ, M.D. REV. HAROLD.T. BRANCH - THOMAS V. GONZALES ' • GABE LOZANO, SR. J. HOWARD STARK THE ABOVE ORDINANCE WAS PASSED BY THE FOLLOWING VOTE: - - BONNIE SIZEMORE • CHARLES A. BONNIWELL ROBERTO BOSQUEZ, M.D. -REV. HAROLD T. BRANCH - THOMAS V. GONZALES ' - GABE LOZANO, SR. J J. HOWARD STARK