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AN ORDINANCE
AMENDING SECTION 35 -65, DRILLING BLOCKS, OF DIVISION 3,
DRILLING BLOCKS AND PRODUCTION UNITS, OF THE CODE OF
ORDINANCES, CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, 976 REVISION, AS
AMENDED, AND PARTICULARLY AS AMENDED BY ORDINANCE NO.
14098, BY AMENDING SUBSECTION (b) TO PROVIDE THAT OPER-
ATORS SEEKING A CHANGE IN DRILLING BLOCK BOUNDARIES
WILL BE REQUIRED TO SURVEY THE BOUNDARIES OF ONLY THOSE
BLOCKS WHICH THEY ARE SEEKING TO AMEND; PROVIDING FOR
PUBLICATION; AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI,
TEXAS:
SECTION 1. That Section 35 -65, DRILLING BLOCKS, of Division 3,
DRILLING BLOCKS AND PRODUCTION UNITS, of the Code of Ordinances, City of
Corpus Christi, 1976 Revision, as amended, and particularly as amended by
Ordinance No. 14098, be and the same is hereby amended by deleting from
Subsection (b) of said Section 35 -65 the words, "and a metes and bounds
description thereof," from the end of the second sentence, and deleting
from the third sentence the words "provide all necessary surveys, as well
as payment," and replacing the word "pay" therefor, said Subsection (b) to
hereafter read as follows:
"(b) The City Council may, from time to time, amend the bounda-
ries of the drilling blocks referred to in this section, after a recommenda-
tion to that effect from the Petroleum Inspection Division. Prior to a
recommendation for amendment of the drilling block boundaries, the Petroleum
Inspection Division shall cause to be published on the same day for two
consecutive weeks a notice of the drilling blocks proposed to be changed.
The applicant seeking the change in the drilling block boundaries shall
pay for notification in the official City newspaper. The proposed changes
shall also be kept on record in the office of the Petroleum Inspection
Division for a period of seven days after the second notice hereinabove
referred to. If no objections have been received, or if after examination
of any objections received, the Petroleum Superintendent or his representa-
tive recommends a change in the drilling block or blocks, then the recom-
mendation of the Petroleum Superintendent shall be forwarded to the office
of the City Manager for further action. If objections are received, then
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the City Secretary shall arrange for a public hearing on the question of
alteration of the drilling block boundaries before the City Council."
SECTION 2. 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 3. The necessity to make the hereinabove set forth
changes to the Land Drilling Ordinance 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 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 r, 2 day of March, 1978.
ATTEST: �
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City Secretary MAYOR
E CITY C S CHRISTI, TEXAS
APPROVED:
DAY OF MARCH, 1978:
J. BRUCE�AAY'CO/CK, CITY ATTORNEY
BY:
Assistant Ci torney
Corpus Christi, Texas
_day of /L4-4— _, 19 7P
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 suspension 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 ordinance
finally on the date it is introduced, or at the present meeting of the City
Council.
Respectfully,
THE CITY OF COOUS_J;H iISTI, TEXAS
The Charter Rule was suspended by the following vote:
Gabe Lozano, Sr.
Bob Gulley
David Diaz
Ruth Gill
Joe Holt
Tony Juarez, Jr.
Edward L. Sample
The above ordinance was passed by the following vote:
Gabe Lozano, Sr.
Bob Gulley
David Diaz
Ruth Gill
Joe Holt
Tony Juarez, Jr.
Edward L. Sample
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STATE OF TEXAS, �s ✓ n
County of Nueces.
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Daily Newspapers published at Corpus Christi, Texas, in said County and State, and that the publication of
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1 ORDINANCE NO �Ld232 i
AMENDING,' SECTICnJ 35.4 s
DRILLING BLDCKS,4 DI -
DRILLING
VISION 3 DRILLING BLOCKS
AND PRODUCTION UNITS, ,
OF THE CODE OF ORDI-
NANCES, CITY OF CORPUS
CHRISTI, 1976 REVISION, AS
AMENDED, AND PAR71C r - ,
ULARLY AS AMENDED BY
ORDINANCE NO.'-10498, BY
AMENDING SUBSECTION
(b) TO PROVIDE THAT OP-
ERATORS SEEKING A
CHANGE IN 'DRILLING '
BLOCK BOUNDARIES WILL '
BE REQUIRED TO SURVEY
THEBOUNDARIESOF ONLY
THOSE BLOCKS WHICH
THEY ARE SEEKING TO ,
AMEND, PROVIDING FOR
PUBLICATION; AND DE-
CLARING AN EMERGENCY.
WAS PASSED AND AP-
PROVED by the City Counul o ,
`the City of Corpus Christi, '
Texas during the Regular Coun.
cil Meeting held on March 27,
1978 and 2:88 p.m. and pm de., that it shall be In full force aM
effect from and after Its pas ,
g. and -blr ,_ one time m
th
ctlicial pub
the lkatbn eicas. -
City of Corlxn Christi. ,. - - .• -
is AN SEAL oDhe City o AZ-
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pus Christi, Texas, thls 23rd
o March, 1978• a Bill G. Read, '
" City Secretary
Corpus Christi, Texas