HomeMy WebLinkAbout01840 ORD - 09/04/1945a ,
AN ORDINANCE
REPEALING SECTION 9-2. CAPTIONED "USE OF CRITICAL MATERIALS ",
OF CHAPTER 9 OF AN ORDINANCE PASSED AND APPROPED BY THE CITY
COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS. ON THE 25th
DAY OF MARCH, L942, AND MM AS THE "ELECTRICAL ORDINANCE
BEING ORDINANCE No. _L441, RECORDED IN VOLUME 12 AT PAGES 585
ET SEQ. OF THE ORDINANCE AND RESOLUTION RECORDS OF THE CITY
COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI= AND DECLARING AN
EMERGENCY.
WHEREAS, scarcity of certain critical electrical
materials and installations during the period of the war made it necessary
for the Council to relax oertain standards of electrical construction by
including in Ordinance ]mown as "ELECTRICAL ORDINANCE, ".passed by it on
March 25, 1942, and appearing of record in Volume 12 at pages 585 at seq. of
the Ordinance sad Resolution Records of the City of Corpus Christi,
a Section captioned "SECTION 9-22 USE OF CRITICAL MATERIALS ", which provided
for use of substitutes when critical materials were not available; and
WHEREAS, it has been brought to the attention of the Council
that said critical electrical materials and installations are now available
aaa it S. th. a..i— of tae Coen.il that the high standards and provisions of
the National Electrical Code be hereafter strictly enforced as prescribed ,
in the remaining provisions of said "ELECTRICAL ORDINANCE":
THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF CORALS CHRISTI, TEXAS=
SECTION 1, That Section 9 -2 of Chapter 9 of the
Ordinance known as "ELECTRICAL ORDINANCE ", being Ordinance No. 1!♦L{1, passed
and approved by the City Council on March 25, 1942. be, and the same is hereby
repealed.
SECTION 2. The fact that the State Fire Insurance
Commissioner has directed that the high standards required of electrical
construction previous to the war emergency be imaediately restored and
enforced by all officials and the 24ot that the usb of substitute" as
provided by said Section 9-2 constitutes a risk and hazard to public safety
which is no longer warranted by the scarcity of materials, create a public
emergency and an imperative public necessity requiring suspension of the
8harter Rule that no Ordinance or Resolution be finally passed on the day of
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its introduction, and that said Ordinance shall be read at three several
meetings of the City Council, and the Mayor having declared that such
an emergency and imperative necessity exists and having requested that
such Charter rule be suspended, and that this Resolution 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 13, ACCORDINGLY, SO ORDAINED.
PASSED ATD APPROVED this the day of September.
A.D. 1945.
Mayor, y o orpus a
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City Secretary
APPROVED AS TO IEGs
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Corpus Cbrietii Texas
September _6L_, 1945
TO THE MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL
OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI
CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS.
Gentlemen:
For the reasons get forth in the emergency clause of
the foregoing Ordinance, a public emergency and an imperative
necessity exist for the suspeasioa 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 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 Oomo1Y.
CC/Mayo's y o Corpus chrlstirexas
The Charter Rule was suspended by the following votes
Roy L. Self
B. 0. Moffett
R. R. Rambo Ii(�..e/
H. C. Beck
R. B. Marriott
The above Ordinance was passed by the following voter
Boy L. Sett
B. G. Moffatt
R. R. Rambo .._
R. C. Beck .�
R. B. Marriott �(/