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AN ORDINANCE
CLOSING AND ABANDONING AN EASEMENT IN LOT
19, BLOCK 4, ABBOTT ADDITION, IN THE CITY
OF CORPUS CHRISTI, NUECES COUNTY, TEXAS;
PROVIDING FOR SEVERABILITY; AND DECLARING
AN EMERGENCY.
WHEREAS, there exists a utility easement in Lot
19, Block 4, Abbott Addition to the City of Corpus Christi; and
WHEREAS, it has been determined that it is feasible
and advantageous to the City of Corpus Christi to abandon said
easement to the abutting property owners as it is now needed
by the City, nor will it within the foreseeable future be
needed by the City for any purpose whatsoever:
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL
OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS:
SECTION 1. That the utility easement located in
Lot 19, Block 4, Abbott Addition to the City of Corpus Christi,
Nueces County, Texas, be and the same is hereby closed for
public use and every municipal purpose and abandoned to the
owners of the abutting property, in accordance with the laws
of the State of Texas, and for the service and interest of
the inhabitants of the City of Corpus Christi, Texas.
SECTION 2. If for any reason any section, para-
graph, 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 the public convenience
and necessity would be better served by the closing of the
aforesaid easement creates a public emergency and an imperative
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public necessity 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 introduction and take effect and be in
full force and effect from and after its passage, IT IS
ACCORDINGLY SO ORDAINED, this the /9tt day of December, 1973.
ATTEST:
City S6 4r ry MAYOR
V// THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS
APPROVED:
NA DAY OF DECEMBER, 1973:
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City Attorney/ �"'
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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 on the date it is introduced, or at the present meeting of the
City Council.
Respectfully,
MAYOR
T 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 All
Ricardo Gonzalez
Gabe Lozano, Sr.
J. Howard Stark e�
The above ordinance was passed by the following vote:
Jason Luby
James T. Acuff
Rev. Harold T. Branch
Thomas V. Gonzales
Ricardo Gonzalez
Gabe Lozano, Sr.
J. Howard Stark