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AN ORDINANCE
AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 11025, WHICH AUTHORIZED THE
LEVY AND COLLECTION OF THE 3% HOTEL -MOTEL TAX,
PASSED AND APPROVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL ON AUGUST
9, 1972, BY AMENDING SECTION 4, REPORTS, SO AS TO
PROVIDE FOR QUARTERLY REPORTS AND COLLECTIONS
RATHER THAN THE PRESENT MONTHLY PROVISION, AND
DELETING THE REFERENCES TO "TAX ASSESSOR AND COL-
LECTOR" IN SAID SECTION 4 AND DESIGNATING THE "COL-
LECTION SECTION OF THE FINANCE DEPARTMENT" IN LIEU
THEREOF, ALL AS MORE FULLY SET FORTH HEREINAFTER;
PROVIDING FOR SEVERANCE; PROVIDING FOR PUBLICATION;
AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI,
TEXAS:
SECTION 1. THAT ORDINANCE NO. 11025, WHICH AUTHORIZED THE LEVY
AND COLLECTION OF THE 3% HOTEL -MOTEL TAX, PASSED AND APPROVED BY THE CITY
COUNCIL ON AUGUST 9, 1972, BE AND THE SAME IS HEREBY AMENDED BY AMENDING
SECTION 4, REPORTS, SO AS TO PROVIDE FOR QUARTERLY REPORTS AND COLLECTIONS
RATHER THAN THE PRESENT MONTHLY PROVISION, AND DELETING ALL REFERENCE TO
"TAX ASSESSOR AND COLLECTOR" AND SUBSTITUTING THEREFORE THE "COLLECTION
SECTION OF THE FINANCE DEPARTMENT ", SAID SECTION 4 TO HEREAFTER READ
AS FOLLOWS:
"SECTION 4. REPORTS. ON OR BEFORE THE LAST DAY OF THE MONTH
FOLLOWING EACH QUARTERLY PERIOD, EVERY PERSON REQUIRED IN SECTION 3 HEREOF
TO COLLECT THE TAX IMPOSED HEREIN SHALL FILE A REPORT WITH THE COLLECTION
SECTION OF THE FINANCE DEPARTMENT SHOWING THE CONSIDERATION PAID FOR ALL
ROOM OR SLEEPING SPACE OCCUPANCIES IN THE PROCEDING QUARTERLY PERIOD, THE
AMOUNT OF TAX COLLECTED ON SUCH OCCUPANCIES, AND ANY OTHER INFORMATION AS
THE COLLECTION SECTION OF THE FINANCE DEPARTMENT MAY REASONABLY REQUIRE,
WHICH REPORT SHALL BE IN WRITING. SUCH PERSONS SHALL PAY THE TAX DUE ON
SUCH OCCUPANCIES AT THE T:I.ME OF FILING OF SUCH REPORT."
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
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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, WHICH PUBLICATION SHALL CONTAIN
THE CAPTION STATING IN SUBSTANCE THE PURPOSE OF THE ORDINANCE.
SECTION 4. THE NECESSITY TO IMMEDIATELY AMEND THE PROVISIONS FOR
LEVYING AND COLLECTING OF THE 3% HOTEL -MOTEL TAX AS HEREINASOVE PROVIDED
CREATES A PUBLIC EMERGENCY AND AN 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 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, 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 15
ACCORDINGLY SO ORDAINED, THIS THE_92u— DAY of OCTOBER, 197+.
ATTEST:
ACI SECRETARY -- jv AYO
THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, 1AS
NEDAP DAY OF OCTOBER, 1974.
EMC. ASST.
CITY "6tl
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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
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
Janes T. Acuff v
Rev.' Harold T. Branch
Thomas V. Gonzales
Ricardo Gonzalez
Gabe Lozano, Sr.
J. Howard Stark
PUBLISHER'S AFFIDAVIT M-.., ".
STATE OF TEXAS, t,q:
County of Nueces. f "
Before me, the undersigned, a Notary Public, this day personally came._._.
R. Bb who being first duly sworn, according to law, says that he is the
Class. Ad. Manager —.. 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
Lega1...Notice of Passage of Ordinance # 12335...
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on theme day of...... October __ 191L- ftvaffuiam— _ —
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Louise Vick
_,-Notary Public, Nueces Coun
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