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AN ORDINANCE
DECLARING THE POLICY OF THE CITY OF
CORPUS.CHRISTI, TEXAS, IN REGARD TO
EMPLOYEES OF THE CITY; PROVIDING THAT
ALL. EMFLOYEES, OF THE CITY, MUSS OTHER-
WISE SPECIFICALLY DESIGNATED, SHALL BE
FULL -TIM EMGYEESi PROVIDING THAT NO
FULL -TIME SNPLOYESS OF THE CITY SHALL
WORK LESS THAN FORTY -FOUR (W HOURS
PER WEER; PROVIDING THAT NO wrt27. MS
SHALT. BE ABSENT FROM WORK DURING WORK
HOURS; PROVIDING EXCEPTIONS THERETO;
PROVIDING THAT ALL HEADS OF DEPARTMENTS
AND FOREMEN SHALL. IM[EDINTELY REPORT IN
WRITING ANY VIOLATIONS OF THIS ORDINANCE
TO THE 34AYCR OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI;
PROVIDING THAT ANY VIOLATION OF THIS ORDI-
90CE_SHALL BE CAUSE FOR. BEMWAL OR DISCHARGE]
AM DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
CORPUS CHRISTI, TXWr
SECTION 1. That the welfare of the City of Corpus Christi
and its citizens requires that all full -time employees of the City
shall devote all of their energy and efforts to the business of
the City of Corpus Christi during the hours they are required to
be on duty, and that all full-time employees shall be on duty
during the said hours of employment and shall not engage in any
outside pursuits during such hours of duty. This ordinance is
not intended to prohibit anp employee of the City of Corpus Christi
from engaging in other pursuits after business hours, provided
such pursuits do not conflict with such employees duty to the
City, or is not prohibited by the City Charter or other Ordinances
of the City.
SECTION 2. All employees of the City , unless specifi-
cally designated by ordinance or the motion passed by the City
Council employing said employee, or the City Charter, as a part -
time employee, shall be deemed a full -time employee of the City
of Corpus Christi,
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SECTION j- All full -time employees of the City of
Corpus Christi shall work and be at duty not loss than Forty -Four
(lilt) hours per week.
SECTION 4. No employee of the City of Corpus Christi
.shall absent himself or hereself from his or her place of employment
and job, except for due cause as hereinafter provided, during the
hours such employee is required by his or her contract of employment
to be at such place of smploymentj provided that unavoidable absence
due to illness of such employee, or illness of such employee's
family, or like instances which shall be deemed exousable absence.
SECTION 5. All heads of departments and foremen shall
immediately report in writing any violation of thin ordinanoe to
the Mayor of the City of Corpus Christi.
SECTION 6. Any violation of this ordinsnoe shall, in the
case of classified employees be cause for removal or discharge under
Article 10, Section 5, Subdivisions e, 1, a, and s of the rules and
regulations of the Civil Service Board of the City of Corpus Christi,
and in the case of unclassified employees shall be grounds for
Immediate removal or discharge by the City Council.
SECTION %. The fact that the welfare of the City of
Corpus Christi and its citizens requires that employees of the
City devote their Hill time and energy during business hours to
the work for which they are employed creates a public emergency
and public imperative necessity requiring the suspension of the
Charter rule or requirement that no Ordinance or Resolution shall
be passed finally an the date it is introduced, and that such Ordi-
nance or Resolution shall be read at three several meetings of the
City Council, and the Mayor having deolared In writing that such
public emergency and imperative necessity exist, and having requested
that such Charter rule be suspended, 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.
PASSED AND APPROVED this day of , A. D.,
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-, TO THE MNMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL
OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI
Corpus Christi, Texas
Gentlemenr
For the reasons set forth in the emergency clause
of the foregoing Ordinance, a public emergency and an impera-
tive 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 dnd that such Ordinance
or Resolution shall be read at three several meetings of the
City Council, I, therefore, hereby 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, Pty o1 orpuz Chr s i, Taxes
The Charter rule was suspended by the following vote: \G
Roy L. Self
B. G. Moffett
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R. R. Rambo C(itT_
W. C. Beck
N. B. Marriott
The show above Ordinance was passed by the following vote:
Roy L. Self 6Lz /-
B. G. Moffett �iti ei
R. R. Rambo
N. C. Beck
H. B. Marriott
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