HomeMy WebLinkAbout15119 ORD - 09/19/1979AN ORDINANCE
AMENDING THE CODE.OF ORDINANCES, CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI
1976 REVISION, AS AMENDED, BY AMENDING SECTION 55-5,
CITY TRANSIT SYSTEM --FARES, BY ADDING A NEW PARAGRAPH,
(E), PERTAINING TO SPECIALIZED TRANSPORTATION SERVICES
FOR THE ELDERLY AND HANDICAPPED; PROVIDING FOR SEVER-
ABILITY; PROVIDING FOR PUBLICATION; AND PROVIDING AN
EFFECTIVE DATE.
• WHEREAS, the City has been providing specialized transportation
services to the senior citizens of the community through the Senior Community
Services program for the past four years; and
WHEREAS, the City Council has extended this service to the handi-
capped population of the City; and
WHEREAS, the City Council is desirous of establishing a fare for
certain services; and
WHEREAS, the City Council is desirous of exempting from any fare
those senior citizens participating in the hot lunch program at Senior
Community Centers; and
WHEREAS, the City Council is desirous of exempting those handicapped
persons who cannot utilize regular bus service without special assistance;
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 by adding a
new paragraph, (E), reading as follows:
"(E) Specialized Transportation Services
(1)
For passengers age 65 years or older, upon presen-
tation of a Medicare card or special identification
card, the fare shall be 35 cents for all one way
trips. If a person 65 years of age or older does
not have a Medicare card, then a special identi-
fication card will be issued to that person at
no cost, upon appearing in person at either the
Traffic and Transit office or the Transit SYstem
office.
(2) Senior citizens who are qualified, participate in,
and are traveling to or from the hot lunch program
at Senior Community Centers, Medicaid recipients
the cost of whose transportation is paid by the
Texas Department of Human Resources, and all handi-
capped persons both elderly and non -elderly, shall
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be exempt from the payment of any fare providing
they can show evidence that they are participating
in these program, or evidence that they are cer-
tified as handicapped. Evidence may take the form
of an identification card issued by Senior Community
Services certifying that the bearer•is an eligible
participant in the hot lunch program.
Handicapped persons shall be issued a special iden-
tification card, at no cost, by either the Traffic
and Transit office or by the Transit System office,
upon certification by a doctor or a community agency
which serves the handicapped to the effect that the
person is handicapped. For purposes of this ordin-
ance, "handicapped person" shall be defined as an
individual who, by reason of a permanent physical
disability or incapacity, is unable to utilize re-
gular mass transit services without special assis-
tance."
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 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 October 1, 1979.
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.
That the foregoing ordinance was read for thefirst time and passed to its
second reading on this the a/ day of ( 1 . ,. 19 , by the
following vote:
Luther Jones
Edward L. Sample
Dr. Jack Best
David Diaz
Jack K. Dumphy
Betty N. Turner
Cliff Zarsky
That the foregoing ordinance wa read for the second time and passed to its
third reading on this the 'day of a,, 19 '99 , by the
following vote:
Luther Jones
Edward L. Sample
Dr. Jack Best
David Diaz
Jack K. Dumphy
Betty N. Turner
Cliff Zarsky
That the foreging ordin
on this thef $day of
wa re.'
for
Luther Jones
Edward L. Sample
Dr. Jack Best
David Diaz
Jack K. Dumphy
Betty N. Turner
Cliff Zarsky
PASSED AND APPROVED, this the
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City Secretary MAY
APPROVED:
3/ DAY 0 , 19 7
J. BRUCE AYCOCK, C TY ATTORNEY
By
Assistant Ci
TH W ITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS
15119
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STATE OF TEXAS,
County of Nueces.
}ss:
PUBLISHER'S AFFIDAVIT
Before me, the undersigned, a Notary Public, this day personally came
Elma Rodela , who being first duly sworn, according to law, says that he is the
Accounting Clerk of the Corpus Christi Caller and The Corpus Christi Times,
Daily Newspapeis-p b ished at Corpus Christi, Texas, in said County and State, and that the publication of
Notice of Passage of Ordinance No. 15119 Amending, the Code odf Ordinances, City of Corpus...
of which the annexed is a true copy, was published in
on the.ab._._ day of September
consecutive
Times.
Cornus Christi Caller -Times
19 79., and once each Xh't�a"lifi
$2E. QSL
Subscribed and sworn to before me this
Elma Rodela
Accounting Cler..
lathday of September 19 79
Lois Winn
i Tot.:ry ublic, -Nu • ces County, Texas
-w•4 I ICE OF PASSAGE
OF ORDINANCE
AMENDING T
CODE o
ORDINANCES,' CITY OF
CORPUS CHRISTI, 7976 REVI;
SION, AS AMENDED, BY
AMENDING SECTION 55-5
CITY TRANSIT SYSTEM --
FARES, BY ADDING A NEW,
PARAGRAPH, (E), PER-
TAINING TO SPECIALIZED
TRANSPORTATION SER-
VICES FOR THE ELDERLY
AND HANDICAPPED, PRO-.
VIDING FOR SEVER-
ABILITY, PROVIDING FOR
PUBLICATION; AND PRO-
VIDINGjaN EFFECTIVE
DATE,
WAS PASSED AND APPROV-
CD By the City Council of The
duo f :Hrpus Christi, Texas,
'Meeting the Regular Council
9 held me 1 09
September, 19797 9 at 2:00 pm.
fand provides that it shall be In
ull force and effect from and
after Its passage and pub-
)tcahon &le time in the official
publication of the City of Corpus
Christi, Tetras,
' ISSUED UNDER MY HAND
fiND SEAL of P s Christi, Texas,?his City of Con
29 September, 1979 20th day
-s-1351G, Read,
City Secretary
Corpus Christi,
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