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AN ORDINANCE
AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 9864 PASSED AND APPROVED
ON JULY 29, 1970s SO AS TO PROVIDE A FARE OF 15¢
FOR PASSENGERS OVER 65 YEARS OF AGE UPON PRESENTA-
TION OF A MEDICARE CARD OR SPECIAL IDENTIFICATION
CARD TO BE ISSUED AT NO COST TO A PERSON PROVIDING
EVIDENCE OF AGE TO THE TRANSIT OFFICE; PROVIDING
FOR THE ELIMINATION OF ADDITIONAL ZONE FARES FOR
THE CLASS ESTABLISHED HEREIN; PROVIDING FOR PUBLI-
CATION; PROVIDING FOR SEVERABILITY; PROVIDING AN
EFFECTIVE DATE.
WHEREAS, Ordinance No. 9864, passed and approved by the City Council
on July 29, 1970, in effect set the schedule of motor bus rates; and
WHEREAS, said schedule did not make provision for the fact that
most citizens 65 years of age and older subsist on a limited fixed sum retire-
ment income; and ,
WHEREAS, the increasing cost of living and increased inflation con-
stantly erode the buying power of those citizens subsisting on limited fixed
sum income; and
WHEREAS, such conditions cause a severe economic burden on a segment
of the community that contributed much to the economic well -being of the City
and who over the years have produced substantial tax revenue to the support
of running City government; and
WHEREAS, the City Council hereby finds the above conditions to exist
and to warrant the granting of a reduced fare to those citizens 65 years of
age or older:
NOW THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS:
SECTION 1. That the aforesaid Ordinance No. 9864,4be, and�the same
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is hereby, amended so as to add a new Subsection (6) to Paragraph (A) of
Section 2 thereof, said new Subsection to read as f6llows:
"(6) For passengers 65 years or older, upon presentation of a Medi-
Care card or special identification card, the fare shall be fifteen cents
(150). If a person 65 years of age or older does not have a Medicare card,
then a special identification card will be issued to that person at no cost,
upon appearing in person at the Transit Office and providing evidence of age.
For the purposes of the class of fare established in this Subsection (6), the
additional zone fares are eliminated.
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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 fares established by this ordinance shall become
effective on , 1973•
SECTION 4. Publication shall be made one time prior to effective
date in the official publication of the City of Corpus Christi, after final
passage, which publication shall contain the caption stating in substance
the purpose of the ordinance.
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That the foregoing oz- dinance was read for [he fiist time and passed
to its second reading on this the 96-k(- day of QL<,� , 19_,?j- , by the
following vote: d
Jason Luby
James T. Acuff
Rev. Harold T. Branch
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Thomas V. Gonzales
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Ricardo Gonzalez
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Gabe Lozano, Sr.
J. Howard Stark
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That the foregoing ordinance was read for the second time and passed
to its third reading on this the - tk day of
Qt -nR , 19 _�j 9, by the
following vote:
Jason Luby
,James T. Acuff
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Rev. Harold T. Branch
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Thomas V. Gonzales
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Ricardo Gonzales
Gabe Lozano, Sr.
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J. Howard Stark
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That the foregoing ordinance was read for the third time and passed
finally on this the ay of 0
, 19 '7,1, by the following vote:
Jason Luby
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James T. Acuff
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Rev. Harold T. Branch
Thomas V. Gonzales
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Ricardo Gonzalese_
Gabe Lozano, Sr.
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J. Howard Stark
PASSED AND APPROVED, this the 3d
day of SK , 19 7.
ATTEST:
City Secretary,
APPRO D:
DAY OF
$ity Attorney
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THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS
1973
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PUBLISHER'S AFFIDAVIT
STATE OF TEXAS
County of Nueces.
Before me, the undersigned, a Notary Public, this day personally came ..................................
L.Quiae ack ..... ......................... . . . ... who being first duly sworn, according to law, says that he is the
.......... ... auvemvls.or ................. 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 ........................... TIMU ................ =7= =7
on the Ith day of ........... . luly :..................19...r43, ainbmnczx:%zh ............................ tbomajja&-qr ...................... ....
.............. I ............... Times.
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Vick Class. Adv. Supervisor
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 3.114 day of ........... Augvu.i.t .......................... 19.73
Kenneth Holt ......
Notary Public, Nueces County, Texas
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