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AN ORDINANCE
PRESCRIBING THAT ARTICLES 1 AND 2 OF HOUSE BILL 1060
ENACTED BY THE SIXTY-SIXTH TEXAS LEGISLATURE, PERTAIN-
ING TO VALUATION OF AGRICULTURAL PROPERTY, NOT APPLY
TO 1979 TAXES LEVIED OR COLLECTED BY THE CITY OF CORPUS
CHRISTI, TEXAS; AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.
WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Corpus Christi finds
that it is impractical to implement Articles 1 and 2 of House Bill 1060
enacted by the Sixty -Sixth Texas Legislature, pertaining to valuation of
agricultural property for 1979 taxes due to the lack of time required for
compiling data for standards of comparison and determining the legal criteria
for eligibility before expiration of the statutory deadlin
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COL OF THE CITY
OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS:
SECTION 1. As authorized by Article 13, Section 1(b) of House
Bill 1060, as enacted by the Legislature and signed into law by the Governor
of Texas, Articles 1 and 2 of said House Bill 1060 shall not apply in the
City of Corpus Christi to 1979 taxes levied or collected by the City of
Corpus Christi, Texas.
SECTION 2. The necessity to declare that it is impractical to
implement Articles 1 and 2 of said House Bill 1060, pertaining to valuation
of agricultural property, due to the lack of time required for compiling
data for standards of comparison and determining the legal criteria for
eligibility before expiration of the statutory deadline, 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 that such emergency and necessity exist, and having requested the
suspension of the Charter rule and that this ordinance be passed finally
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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 July, 1979.
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APPR VED:
AY OF JULY, 1979:
J. BRUCE AYCOCK, CITY ATTORNEY
By
City Attoj ey
OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS
Corpus Christi, Texas
/1( day of
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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,
MA
The Charter rule was suspended
Luther Jones
Edward L. Sample
Dr. Jack Best
David Diaz
Jack K. Dunphy
Betty N. Turner
Cliff Zarsky
The above ordinance was
Luther Jones
Edward L. Sample
Dr. Jack Best
David Diaz
Jack K. Dunphy
Betty N. Turner
Cliff Zarsky
THE C OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS
by the following
passed
by the
vote:
following vote:
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