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AN ORDINANCE
AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 11548, PASSED AND APPROVED
BY THE CITY COUNCIL ON JULY 3, 1973, SO AS TO PROVIDE
A MAXIMUM TRANSIT FARE OF 154 FOR PASSENGERS OVER
65 YEARS OF AGE AND FOR HANDICAPPED PERSONS; PROVIDING
FOR ADDITIONAL ZONE FARES FOR THE CLASS ESTABLISHED
HEREIN;PROVIDING FOR PUBLICATION; PROVIDING FOR
SEVERABILITY; PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE; AND
DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.
WHEREAS, by Ordinance No. 11548, passed and approved by the
City Council on July 3, 1973, the City Council provided for special fares
for passengers of the City Transit System who are 65 years of age or older;
and
WHEREAS, the City Council is desirous of making further
provisions for special fares for handicapped persons and for the elderly:
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS:
SECTION 1. That Ordinance No. 11548, passed and approved by
the City Council on July 3, 1973, which amended Ordinance No. 9864, para-
graph A of Section 2 thereof, be and the same is hereby amended by amending
Subsection (6) to hereafter read as follows:
"(6) For passengers 65 years or older and for handicapped
persons, upon presentation of a Medicare card or special identification
card, the fare shall be ten cents (104) for the first zone and five cents
(50 for any ride involving more than one zone. If a person 65 years
of age or older does not have a Medicare card, then a special identification
card will be issued to that person at no cost, upon appearing in person at
the Transit Office and providing evidence of age. If a handicapped person
does not have a special identification card, then one will be issued to
that person at no cost, by the Transit Office, upon certification by a
doctor or by a community agency which serves the handicapped to the effect
that the person is handicapped. For the purposes of this ordinance,
'handicapped person' shall be defined as any individual who, by reason of
a permanent physical disability or incapacity, is unable to utilize
mass transit services without special assistance."
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SECTION 2. If for any reason any section, paragraph, sub-
division, 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, sub-
division, 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 fares established by this ordinance shall
become effective upon passage and publication of this ordinance.
SECTION 4. 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 5. The necessity to adopt the provisions hereof at
the earliest practicable 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 intro-
duction but that such ordinance or resolution shall be read at three
several meetings of the City Council, and the Mayor having requested the
suspension of the Charter rule and having declared that such public
emergency and necessity exist, 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 nd assn a publication, IT IS ACCORDINGLY SO
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ORDAINED, this the /5 day of October, 1975.
ATTEST:
Secr -tary
A/PPRO,V'ED:
I� DAY OF OCTOBER, 1975:
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4Jf . City Attorne� /
MAYOR
THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS
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CORPUS CNR ISTI, TEXAS
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/. DAY OF �9 ,�
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 NEI'ESSITY 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,
THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS
THE CHARTER RULE WAS SUSPENDED BY THE FOLLOWING VOTE:
JASON LUBY
DR. BILL TIPTON
EDUARDO DE ASES
RUTH GILL
BOB GULLEY
GABE LOZANO, SR.
EDWARD L. SAMPLE
THE ABOVE ORDINANCE VAS
JASON LUBY
DR. BILL TIPTON
EDUARDO DE ASES
RUTH GILL
BOB GULLEY
GABE LOZANO, SR.
EDWARD L. SAMPLE
PASSED BY THE FVOTE:
PUBLISHER'S AFFIDAVIT
STATE OF TEXAS, t.
County of Nueces.
Before me, the undersigned, a Notary Public, this day personally came
Itome.na C. \re la z who being first duly sworn, according to law, says that he is the
Agoountias_ 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
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