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AN ORDINANCE
AMENDING CHAPTER 19 -B, HUMAN RELATIONS, OF CODE OF THE
CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, 1958, AS AMENDED, AND PARTICULARLY
AS AMENDED BY ORDINANCE NO. 9410 PASSED AND APPROVED BY
THE CITY COUNCIL ON JULY 2, 1969, AND AS AMENDED BY ORDINANCE
N0. 10422, PASSED AND APPROVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL ON THE
18TH DAY OF AUGUST, 1971, BY AMENDING SECTION 19 -B -8 THEREOF
TO INCREASE THE MEMBERSHIP OF THE HUMAN RELATIONS COMMISSION
FROM TEN (10) MEMBERS TO THIRTEEN (13) MEMBERS BY ADDING
THREE MEMBERS, WHO WILL SERVE ONE (1) YEAR TERMS, UNSTAGGERED,
SAID THREE MEMBERS TO BE NOT LESS THAN EIGHTEEN (18) YEARS
OF AGE, NOR MORE THAN TWENTY -FIVE (25) YEARS OF AGE; PRO-
VIDING FOR PUBLICATION; PROVIDING A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE;
REPEALING ALL ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT; AND DECLARING AN
EMERGENCY.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI,
TEXAS:
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SECTION 1. That Chapter 19 -B, HUMAN RELATIONS, of the Code of
the City of Corpus Christi, 1958, as amended, and particularly as amended
by Ordinance No. 9410, passed and approved by the City Council of the City
of Corpus Christi on July 2, 1969, and as amended by Ordinance No. 10422,
passed and approved by the City Council'of the City of Corpus Christi on
August 18, 1971, be and the same is hereby amended by amending Section
19 -B -8 to hereafter read as follows:
"Sec. 19 -B -8. ESTABLISHED; COMPOSITION; APPOINTMENT; TERM
AND COMPENSATION OF MEMBERS; FILLING VACANCIES.
"There is hereby established a commission advisory to the City
Council to be known as the Corpus Christi Human Relations Commission. Said
Commission shall consist of twelve (12) members appointed by the Mayor with
the approval of the City Council. Three (3) of these twelve members will
each serve a term of one (1) year, unstaggered, and shall be not less than
eighteen (18) years of age, nor more than twenty -five (25) years of age.
The members shall be broadly representative of the total community, drawn
from various racial, religious and ethnic groups. The Commission shall also
have a thirteenth (13) member, the director of the Nueces County Legal Aid
Society or a member of his staff designated to represent him.
"The members of the Commission shall serve without compensation.
Members of such Commission, exclusive of those members whose terms are pro-
vided in the paragraph next above, and the member of the staff of the Nueces
County Legal Aid Society, shall serve staggered terms of three (3) years;,,
Initial appointment of three (3) of the members shall be for one (1) year, three (3)
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of the members for two (2) years, and three (3) of the members for three (3) years.
All terms shall begin on the anniversary date of the adoption of this
Ordinance, but each member shall serve until a successor is appointed. The
thirteenth member, the representative from the Nueces County Legal Aid
Society, shall serve continuously and shall not be subject to the appoint-
ment required under this Section."
SECTION 2. Publication shall be made one time in the official
publication of the City of Corpus Christi, by publishing the caption of this
Ordinance, stating in substance the purpose of the ordinance.
SECTION 3. If for any reason any section, paragraph, subdivision,
clause, phrase, or provision of this Ordinance shall be held invalid by
final judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction, 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. All ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict
herewith shall be and are hereby repealed to the extent of conflict herewith.
SECTION 5. The necessity to provide representation for the youth
of the City of Corpus Christi on the Human Relations Commission 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 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 and publication, IT IS ACCORDINGLY SO ORDAINED,
this the � day of 1972.
ATTEST:/
City Secretary/
APPROVED:
14 DAY OF 1972:
ST City A orney
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MAYOR
LTHE CITY OF CO S CHRISTI, TEXAS
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CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS
_ - - DAY OF
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; 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.
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MAYOR
THE CITY OF EORPOaRISTI, TEXAS
THE CHARTER RULE WAS SUSPENDED BY THE FOLLOWING VOTE:
BONNIE SIZEMORE
CHARLES A. BONNIWELL /11w z. •
ROBERTO BOSQUEZ, M.D. -U`-
REV. HAROLD T. BRANCH /�l� '
. i THOMAS V. GONZA LES r ��
GABE LOZANO, SR. � •
' V. HOWARD STARK
THE ABOVE ORDINANCE WAS PASSED BY THE FOLLOWING VOTE:
. BONNIE SIZEMORE
CHARLES A. BONNIWELL
ROBERTO BosvuEz, M.D. Q
'BEY. HAROLD T. BRANCH
THOMAS V. GONZALES � --�/L� •
GABE LOZANO, SR. �_�--
J. HOWARD STARK