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AN ORDINANCE
AMENDING THE CORPUS CHRISTI CITY CODE, AS
AMENDED, BY REPEALING SECTION 21 -44 AND ADOPT-
ING NEW SECTION NUMBERED 21 -44 SO AS TO RATIFY,
CONFIRM AND DECLARE TO BE OFFICIAL ALL TRAFFIC
CONTROL DEVICES INSTALLED AND IN SERVICE AT THE
EFFECTIVE DATE OF THIS ORDINANCE AND SUCH INSTAL-
LATIONS AS ARE AUTHORIZED BY THE CITY COUNCIL AND
INSTALLED;•PROVIDING A SAVINGS CLAUSE; PROVIDING
FOR PUBLICATION; AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.
WHEREAS, some traffic control signs, signal- devices or markings
placed or erected by the Police Division, or other City employees, are under
the direction of the Director of Traffic Engineering without specific written
designation of said traffic control signs, signals, devices or markings by
the City Council by ordinance or other written authority and all such instal-
lations heretofore established and now in existence as well as those hereto-
fore authorized by appropriation or other authority of the City Council and
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now being constructed and established should be officially approved by the
City Council by ordinance:
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS:
SECTION 1. That the Corpus Christi City Code, as amended, be and
the same is hereby amended by repealing the present Section 21 -44 and adopt-
ing a new Section No. 21 -44, to hereafter read as follows;
"All traffic- control signs, signal- devices and
markings installed and in service on or before
May 14, 1975, which are in use for the purpose
of regulating, warning or guiding traffic are
hereby affirmed, ratified and declared to be
official traffic - control devices."
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 Hill force and effect for its purpose.
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SECTION 3• Publication shall be made one time in the official
publication of the City of Corpus Christi by publishing the caption of this
ordinance stating in substance the purpose of the ordinance.
SECTION 4. The necessity to affirm and ratify as official the
above described traffic control devices at the earliest possible date
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 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, IT IS ACCORDINGLY SO
ORDAINED, this the day of May, 1975•
ATTEST:
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"CiJKj Secret MAYOR
THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS
APPROVED:
glDAY OF MAY, 1975:
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4ss -4e% a City A ey
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i Corpus Christi, Texas
day of 19 7J
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 full wing vote:
Jason Luby
James T. Acuff
Rev. Harold T. Branch
Thomas V. Gonzales
Ricardo Gonzalez
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Gabe Lozano, Sr.
J. Howard Stark
PUBLISHER'S AFFIDAVIT
STATE OF TEXAS, I ss:
County of Nueces.
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I CITY CODE, AS 'I
fD, BY, REPEALING
01-N AND ADOPTING
TION NUMBERED 01� J
RATIFY, CONFIRM AND
TO ...... CIAL ALL
CONTROL DEVICES .1 •r . • ?/ . .L
:D AND IN SERVICE AT !�
ECTIVE DATE OF THIS 1
1NCE AND SUCH t
LATIONS AS ARE
IZED BY THE CITY
AND INSTALLED;
IG A SAVINGS CLAUSE;
IG FOR PUBLICATION'
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