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AN ORDINANCE
AMENDING ORDINANCE 11247, PASSED AND APPROVED BY THE
CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI` ON THE
10TH DAY OF JANUARY, 1973, BY AMENDING SECTION 1
THEREOF SO AS TO PROVIDE THAT THE CITY TAX ASSESSOR
MAY, FOR GOOD CAUSE SHOWN, WAIVE THE APRIL 30TH DEAD-
LINE UPON THE SWORN AFFIDAVIT OF THE APPLICANT;
PROVIDING FOR SEVERABILITY; PROVIDING FOR PUBLICATION;
AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.
WHEREAS, Ordinance No. 11247 was passed and approved by the
City Council of the City of Corpus Christi on January 10, 1973, which
Ordinance exempted from all ad valorem taxes levied after January 1, 1973,
Three Thousand Dollars ($3000) of the assessed taxable value of residence
homesteads,as that term is defined by the State Constitution and law,of
persons sixty -five (65) years of age or older, upon the filing by the owner
or his agent, at the City Tax Office, of an application for such exemption,
which application shall contain an affirmative statement that the applicant
is sixty -five (65) years of age or older, as well as other pertinent infor-
mation as set forth in said Ordinance; and
WHEREAS, it is the desire of the City Council to amend said
Ordinance so as to provide that a time extension for filing such application
after the April 30th deadline may, for good cause shown, be granted by the
City Tax Assessor upon the sworn affidavit of the applicant:
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS:
SECTION 1. That Section 1 of Ordinance No. 11247, passed and
approved by the City Council of the City of Corpus Christi on the 10th day
of January, 1973, be and the same is hereby amended by adding to said
Section 1 a sentence which shall read as follows:
"However, the City Tax Assessor may, for good cause shown,
waive the April 30th deadline upon the sworn affidavit of
the applicant, so long as such late filing privilege grant
will not, in the evaluation of the City Tax Assessor - Collector,
materially contribute to the delay or increase the expense of
the preparation of the City tax roll."
SECTION 2. That if for any reason any section, paragraph, sub-
division, clause, phrase, word, or providion of this ordinance shall be held
invalid or unconstitutional by final judgment of a court of competent juris-
diction it shall not affect any other section, paragraph, subdivision, clause,
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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. Publication shall be made one time in the official
publication of the City of Corpus Christi, by publishing the caption of the
ordinance, stating in substance the purpose of the ordinance.
SECTION 4. The necessity to authorize the City Tax Assessor to
waive the deadline as set out hereinabove at the earliest possible date,
creates a public emergency and 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 cW ay of 0 1 , 4 2 - 1 4 , 1974.
YOR —$�
THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS
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Corpus Christi, Texas
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cAOLday of , 1922L
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
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 following vote:
Jason Luby
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James T. Acuff /.. /(
Rev. Harold T. Branch (,�1�f
Thomas V. Gonzales �c�p
Ricardo Gonzalez
Gabe Lozano, Sr. a,
J. Howard Stark 74,1-
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PUBLISHER'S AFFIDAVIT
STATE OF TEXAS, Ls.
County of Nueces.
Before me, the undersigned, a Notary Public, this day personally came
Richard D, Har in who being first duly sworn, according to law, says that he is the
Clas__ Ad r. ?'fir. 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
Le a1 ,tice_ --T tice of ngssa4e of ordinance no. 11913..,
of which the annexed is a true copy, was published in ..._._ _ Time s
on the_ 26 t'.day of. ..._._:: e bruar; ....._ 1914., aKaTzircx
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Times.
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Richard D. Hardin, Class. Adv. Mgr.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 7 tb.._...day of MtF &b ........_....___......_ 19....1I!-
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Louise Vigo
N
ary Public, Nueces County, Texas
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