HomeMy WebLinkAbout033656 ORD - 06/10/2025Ordinance to add new Section 12-109 to Chapter 12 of the City Code to
prohibit crossing of buoy markers at Choke Canyon Reservoir; providing
for a penalty not to exceed $500 and publication.
Whereas, the City Council finds it is necessary to adopt regulations for public safety and
protection of the Choke Canyon Reservoir to prohibit crossing of buoy markers placed by
City of Corpus Christi;
Whereas, the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department may enforce ordinances made under
Chapter 31 of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Code which allows any incorporated city or
town with respect to all lakes owned by it to designate restricted areas and to make rules
and regulations necessary for the operation and equipment of boats which it deems
necessary for the public safety;
Whereas, Texas Local Government Code Section 341.903 provides that a home -rule
municipality may police the following areas owned by and located outside of the
municipality: (1) parks and grounds; (2) lakes and land contiguous to and used in
connection with a lake; and (3) speedways and boulevards;
Whereas, Texas Government Code Section 30.00005 provides that a municipal court of
record has the jurisdiction over criminal cases arising under ordinances authorized by
Section 341.903;
NOW THEREAFORE BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL FOR THE CITY OF
CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS:
SECTION 1. That Chapter 12 of the City Code, Boats, Bays and Waterways, is amended
to add new Section 12-109 to read as follows to prohibit crossing of buoy markers at
Choke Canyon Reservoir:
Sec. 12-109. Activities prohibited at Choke Canyon Reservoir.
It is prohibited for any person to cross the buoy markers placed by the City of
Corpus Christi at Choke Canyon Reservoir. The area within the buoy markers
placed by the City of Corpus Christi from water surface to reservoir bottom is a
restricted area and no person may enter the restricted area. All restricted areas
will be kept plainly marked by the City of Corpus Christi. No person may move,
remove, displace, tamper with, damage or destroy the buoy markers. No person
may moor or attach a boat to a buoy marker. No person may cause or allow
watercraft or any device to enter the restricted area. This section does not apply
to city, county, state or other governmental employees or their contractors in
performance of their official duties.
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
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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. Publication shall be made in the official publication of the City of Corpus
Christi as required by the City Charter of the City of Corpus Christi.
SECTION 4. Penalties are as provided in Section 1-6 of the City Code of Ordinance.
Penalties are also as provided in Section 31.127 of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Code
which provides that a person who violates or fails to comply with any provision of this
chapter, or who violates or fails to comply with a proclamation of the commission entered
under this chapter or a city ordinance or order of a commissioners court or a political
subdivision of the state made or entered under this chapter, commits an offense that is a
Class C Parks and Wildlife Code misdemeanor. A copy of this Ordinance shall be filed
with the Parks and Wildlife Department.
SECTION 5. This ordinance takes effect after publication.
Introduced and voted on the 131(\n day of , 2025.
PASSED and APPROVED on the 10 day of TIj , 2025.
Paulette Guajardo, M
EFFECTIVE DATE
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ATTEST:
Rebecca Huerta, City Secretary
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ATTN:Accounts Payable NO. 033656, Ordinance to add
City of Corpus Christi-Secretary new Section 12-109 to Chapter
Po Box 9277 12 of the City Code to
Corpus Christi TX 78469-9277
prohibit crossing of buoy
STATE OF WISCONSIN,COUNTY OF BROWN markers at Choke Canyon
Reservoir; providing an
The Corpus Christi Caller-Times, a newspaper published in the city effective date of June 16,
of Corpus Christi, Nueces County, State of Texas, generally
circulated in Aransas, Bee, Brooks, Duval, Jim Hogg, Jim Wells, 2025, and providing for a
Kleberg, Live Oak, Nueces, Refugio, and San Patricio Counties, penalty not to exceed $500
and personal knowledge of the facts herein state and that the
notice hereto annexed was Published in said newspapers in the and Pu b i i cat i o n. This
issue:
ordinance was passed and
06/16/2025 approved on second reading
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Sworn to and subscribed before on 06/16/2025 Council on June 10, 2025.
/s/ Rebecca Huerta
City Secretary
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