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AN ORDINANCE
AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 8127, AS AMENDED,
BY AMENDING SECTION 2, SUBSECTION (b),
PARAGRAPH 5, BY DELETING THE PRESENT PARA-
GRAPH 5 AND IN LIEU THEREOF ADOPTING NEW
PROVISIONS SO AS TO PROVIDE THAT THE STATE -
REQUIRED LONGEVITY PAY FOR FIREMEN AND
POLICEMEN APPLY TO TOTAL YEARS WORKED AS
EITHER A FIREMAN OR A POLICEMAAJJ...PVIDING
A SEVERANCE CLAII ; AND DECLARING EMERGENCY.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS:
SECTION 1. That Ordinance No. 8127, as amended, be
amended by amending Section 2, Subsection (b), paragraph 5, by
deleting the present provisions and in lieu thereof adopting
new provisions, to hereafter read as follows:
"(5) Police and Fire personnel shall receive
longevity pay in addition to the base salary
rates as prescribed above for service in
either Department or a combination of service
in both Departments in the amount provided by
State law for service up to and including
twenty -five (25) years of service and any
other longevity pay as authorized by this
Ordinance. Advancement to the six, eighteen,
and forty -two month longevity pay steps for
"Patrolman and "Firefighter" shall be based
on uninterrupted continuous service, except
that the City Manager may recognize prior
service in the same division with the City."
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 fact that there is a need to main-
tain at all times an efficient administration of City affairs
creates a public emergency and an imperative public necessity
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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 in-
troduction and take effect and be in full force and effect
from and after its passage, IT IS ACCORDINGLY SO ORDAINED,
this the�day of November, 1973.
ATTEST-
City Secre a MAY
THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS
APPROVED:
1y- DAY OF NOVEMBER, 1973:
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Corpus Christi, Texas
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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 an the date it is introduced, or at the present meeting of the
City Council.
Respectfully,
MAYOR
THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS
The Charter rule was suspended by the following vote:
Jason Luby
James T. Acuff
Rev. Harold T. Branch
Thomas V. Gonzales
Ricardo Gonzalez
Gabe Lozano, Sr.
J. Howard Stark
The above ordinance was passed by the foilowing vote:
Jason Luby
James T. Acuff
Rev. Harold T. Branch
Thomas V. Gonzales
Ricardo Gonzalez
Gabe Lozano, Sr. 9LV-4
J. Howard Stark