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HomeMy WebLinkAbout11388 ORD - 03/21/1973JRR:jk}1:3- 21 -73; 1st
AN ORDINANCE
AMENDING SECTION _21 -2 OF THE CORPUS CHRISTI CITY
CODE, CHAPTER 21, ARTICLE I, BY AMENDING THE
DEFINITION OF "SCHOOL ZONE" SO AS TO DELETE
REFERENCE TO INITIALS "M.P.H." FROM SCHOOL ZONE
SIGNS AND DELETING REFERENCE TO PAINTING ZONE
LIbaTS ON THE PAVEMENT; PROVIDING SEVERABILITY;
PROVIDING FOR PUBLICATION; AND DECLARING AN
EMERGENCY.
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BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI,
TEXAS:
SECTION 1. That Chapter 21, Article I, of the Corpus Christi
City Code-be amended by amending Section 21 -2, Definitions, by deleting
the present definitionof "School Zone" and in lieu thereof adopting the
definition as set forth hereinafter:
"School Zone. Each street, alley, and public ground, or part
thereof, within two hundred and fifty feet (250') of the nearest property
line of any school, public or private, having a regular average attendance
of one hundred and fifty (150) pupils, whereabout signs or markers bearing
the words 'School Zone. 15' shall have been erected an ?, °are conspicuously
displayed on such street, alley, or ground indicating the approach to the
boundary line of such school zone. By the erection of a sign or marker
with the foregoing designation, a legal school zone shall be established.
Signs bearing the words 'End School Zone' shall be erected at each end
of such school zone giving notice to motorists that safe driving speeds
may be resumed."
SECTION 2. If for any reason any sectioq 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.
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SECTION 3. 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 4. The necessity to amend the City Code as hereinabove
set forth in order to provide uniform signalization for school zones in
the City creates a public emergency and an imperative public necessity
requiring the suspension of the Charter rule that no ordinance or resolu-
tion 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 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 th
�� day of
March, 1973.
ATTEST:
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City Secretor . MAYOR
APPRO D:
THE CITY OF ORP C ISTI, TEXAS
Z� DAY OF MARCH, 197
ty Att rneyy
CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS
�r 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 f
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.
PECTF LY,
YOR
THE CITY OF CORPU C ISTI,, TEXAS
THE CHARTER RULE WAS SUSPENDED BY THE FOLLOWING VOTE:
BONNIE SIZEMORE ,
- CHARLES A. BONNIWELL
• _ 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 !V/OTE
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BONN I E $ 1 2EMORE
CHARLES A. BONNIWELL '�•--
ROBERTO BOSQUEZ, M.D.
REv. HAROLD T. BRANCH
THOMAS V. GONZALES -
GABE LOZAN0, SR.�,,
J. HOWARD STARK
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PUBLISHER'S AFFIDAVIT•
i STATE OF TEXAS, �ss:
County of Nueces. '
Before me, the undersigned, a Notary Public, this day personally came ..................................
-- ....... Richard --D «..Hardin .................. .. who being first duly sworn, according to law, says that he is the
.......... Class.- .- AdA «- .I7gr . .................................. 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 ......................
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Louise Vick -a
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