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AN ORDINANCE
AMENDING SECTION 55 -63 OF THE CODE OF ORDINANCES, CITY
OF CORPUS CHRISTI, 1976 REVISION, AS ADOPTED BY ORDINANCE
NO. 13328, PASSED AND APPROVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL ON
AUGUST 11, 1976, SO AS TO FURTHER PROVIDE AN EXEMPTION
FROM CHARGE FOR SERVICE REQUESTED BY CUSTOMERS FOR LIGHTING
AND ADJUSTING OR TURNING OFF ONE OR MORE NATURAL GAS APPLIANCES,
AND CONVERSION OF BURNER ORIFICES FOR NATURAL GAS AT RESI-
DENTIAL, APARTMENT, OR MOBILE HOME ADDRESSES, FOR THOSE,HEADS
OF HOUSEHOLDS 65 YEARS OF AGE OR ABOVE OR THE RECIPIENTS OF
SOCIAL SECURITY DISABILITY PAYMENTS; PROVIDING FOR APPLICATION
AND APPROVAL OF SUCH EXEMPTIONS BY THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC
UTILITIES; REPEALING ALL ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT HEREWITH;
PROVIDING FOR SEVERANCE; PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE; PRO-
VIDING FOR PUBLICATION; AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI,
TEXAS:
SECTION 1. That Section 55 -63 of the Code of Ordinances, City
of Corpus Christi, 1976 Revision, as adopted by Ordinance No. 13328, passed
and approved by the City Council on August 11, 1976, be and the same is
hereby amended to hereafter read as follows:
"Section 55 -63. Charges for lighting, etc. of natural gas appliances.
There shall be a $7.50 charge per appliance service order
request for lighting, adjusting, or turning off one or more natural gas
appliances, or the conversion of burner orifices to burn natural gas, at a
residential, apartment, or mobile home address. Such $7.50 charge includes
all gas appliances for which service is requested. All other customers shall
be charged $7.50 for each appliance lighted, adjusted, or turned off. Main-
tenance of appliances is not included in the lighting and adjusting of any
gas appliance except for gas light mantles and glasses, which will be billed
to the customer requesting service at retail price over and above the charge
set forth above. Provided, however, that in the event the head of a house-
hold is 65 years of age or above or the recipient of social security dis-
ability payments and resides at a residential, apartment, or mobile home
address, then no charge shall be made by the City for such service. Proof
of eligibility for the exemptions provided herein shall be on a form to
be prescribed by the Director of Public Utilities."
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SECTION 2. That all ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict
herewith be and the same are hereby repealed to the extent of such conflict.
SECTION 3. That if for any reason any section, paragraph, subdi-
vision, clause, phrase, word, or provision 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,
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 4. This ordinance shall be effective upon final passage
and publication thereof.
SECTION 5. Publication shall be made one time in the official pub-
lication of the City of Corpus Christi by publishing the caption of this
ordinance, stating in substance the purpose of the ordinance.
SECTION 6. The necessity to exempt from the aforesaid charges
those heads of households 65 years of age or above or the recipient of social
security disability payments 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 theldate of its introduction and take effect
and be in full force and effe t from and after its passage, IT IS ACCORDINGLY
SO ORDAINED, this' the as day of September, 1976.
ATTEST:
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C' y Secretary MAYOR Pro•Tem
THE CITY OF CORPUS LRISTI, TEXAS
A VED:
OV-DAY OF SEPTEMBER, 1976:
J. BRUCE AYCOCK, CIT ATTORNEY
BY ,
Assistant CitJ Attorney ZF
CORPUS CHRISTI, TEX S
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
ORDINANCES 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; 1, 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.
RESPECTFUL LLY,
r---. e
MAYOR'Plo-kefll 11
THE CITY OF CORPUS 4RISTI, 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 WAS PASSED BY
JASON LUBY
DR. BILL TIPTON
EDUARDO DE ASES
RUTH GILL
BOB GULLEY
GABE LOZANO, SR.
EDWARD L. SAMPLE
DTE:
AMENDING SGMW55-63
OF THE CODE OF ORDI-
NANCES, CITY OF-CORPUS
CHRISTI, 1976 REVISION, AS
ADOPTED BY ORDINANCE
NO. 13379, PASSED AND AP-
PROVED BY THE CITY
COUNCIL ON AUGUST 11,
1976, SO AS TO FURTHER
PROVIDE AN EXEMPTION
FROM CHARGE FOR SERV-
ICE REQUESTED BY CUS-
TOMERS FOR LIGHTING
AND ADJUSTING OR TURN-
ING OFF ONE OR MORE
NATURAL GAS APPLI-
ANCES, AND CONVERSION
OF BURNER ORIFICES FOR
NATURAL GAS AT RESI-
DENTIAL, APARTMENT, OR
MOBILE HOME ADDRESS-
ES, FOR THOSE HEADS OF
HOUSEHOLDS 65 YEARS OF
AGE OR ABOVE OR THE RE -,
APPLICATION AN
PROVAL OF SUCH -ES
IONS BY THE DEI
�MENT OF PUE
UTILITIES;» R E P E A
ALL ORDINANCES IN
PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE
DgTE; PROVIDING FOR
PUBLICATION; AND DELL
ARING AN EMERGENCY..
(WAS PASSED AND APPROV.
ED by the City Council of ,jhe
City W Corpus Christi Texas,
,during the Regular Council
Meeting heljl on September 72,
11976, at 7:00 p.m., and provides
that it stall take effect from ajtd
after Its passage and `pub.
lication one time In the offic(al
pubtfcation of the City of Corpus -
Christi, Texas.
ISSUED UNDER MY HAND
AND SEAL of the City of C,_
Pus Christi, Texas this 73rd d(iy
)f September, 1976.
- 5.8111 G. Read City Secretary
City of Corpus Christi, Texas.
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PUBLISHER'S AFFIDAVIT
STATE OF TEXAS, lss c
County of Nueces. J
Before me, the undersigned, a Notary Public, this day personally came ..................
Rowena C. Vela § ueZ
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Aacn unt. ing ............................... .............. .............. 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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of which the annexed is a true copy, was published in ............. Caller —Time s
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Rowena L. Vel s u z - Accounting
! Subscribed and sworn to before me this ......5 ......... ....day of......... .- .Qatattar..................... 19.7.6 ......_
` Eugenia S. Cortez -. - -- �,--- ..5 -_•�� ,
Notary P lic, Nueces County, Texas
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