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AN ORDINANCE
AMENDING THE CODE OF ORDINANCES, CITY OF CORPUS
CHRISTI, 1976 REVISION, AS AMENDED, BY AMENDING
SECTION 55-5, CITY TRANSIT SYSTEM -FARES, BY
AMENDING PARAGRAPH (A) BY ADDING SUBPARAGRAPHS
(10) AND (11) SO AS TO PROVIDE FOR THE SALE OF
PASSES AND TO PROVIDE FREE OR REDUCED RATE TRANSIT
RIDES FOR MARKETING PURPOSES; PROVIDING FOR SEVER-
ABILITY; PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE ; AND DECLARING
AN EMERGENCY.
WHEREAS, Ordinances No. 9864, 12855, 14285, and 14476 passed
and approved by the City Council established a system of rates and zones for
fixed -route City bus service; and
WHEREAS, the City Council has determined that the use of passes
on the transit system will make riding easier for many citizens, thus
encouraging its use; and
WHEREAS, the City Council has determined that in order to
encourage additional use of the transit system it is necessary to offer
free or reduced rate rides as special promotions.
NOW THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS:
SECTION 1. That the Code of Ordinances, City of Corpus Christi,
1976 Revision, as amended, be amended by amending Section 55-5, City Transit
System -Fares, by amending paragraph A, by adding subparagraphs (10) and (11)
so as to authorize the sale of passes and to authorize special transit
promotions. These subparagraphs to hereafter provide as follows:
(A) City Transit System Fixed -Route Service
(10) The City Transit System is authorized to sell,
with the approval of the city Manager, special
punch -type passes which would be valid for a
predetermined number of rides within the first
zone (or to other zones with the payment of a
zone fare) at a rate to be no higher or lower
than the unit rate at which tokens are sold.
Such a pass would be valid during all normal
transit system operating hours.
(11) The City Transit System, with the approval of
the City Manager, is authorized to offer free
or reduced price transit rides on a limited
basis through the use of free or reduced price
tickets, coupons, special passes, tokens or
other methods of identification in an effort to
promote the use and understanding of the transit
system.
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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 hereof be given full force and effect for its purpose.
SECTION 3. All ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflic here-
with be and the same are hereby repealed to the extent of such conflict.
SECTION 4. This ordinance shall become effective immediately
upon passage.
SECTION 5. The necessity to immediately authorize the pro-
motion of transit services 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 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 OS ORDAINED, this the /3 day of
ATTEST:
, 1979.
APPROVED:
/7 DAY OFG , 1979
J.BRUCE AYCOCK, CITY ATTORNEY
By
Assistant Ci torney
OR
THE ITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS
Corpus Christi, Te as
/3 day of
,1929
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,
MAYOR L
The Charter rule was suspend
Luther Jones
Edward L. Sample
Dr. Jack Best
David Diaz
Jack K. Dumphy
Betty N. Turner
Cliff Zarsky
T E CITYE CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS
by the following vote:
The above ordinance was pass by the following vote:
Luther Jones
Edward L. Sample
Dr. Jack Best
David Diaz
Jack K. Dumphy
Betty N. Turner
Cliff Zarsky
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