HomeMy WebLinkAbout02106 ORD - 07/01/1947AN ORDINANCE �CrG
PROHIBITING THE WEARING OF THE CITY OF CORPUS
CHRISTI REGULATION POLICE UNIFORMS AND BADGES
BY PERSONS NOT A MEMBER OF THE CITY OF CORPUS
CHRISTI POLICE FORCE;PRESCRIBING THE PENALTY
FOR VIOLATION THEREOF; A,rD DECLARING ALT EL1ERGEIXY.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS
CHRISTI, TEXAS;
SECTION 1. That whoever shall wilfully and without due
authority use or wear the uniform or badge or any uniform or badge
of the City of Corpus Christi Police Department,unless he shall
be entitled to use or wear the same under the rules described by
the Chief of Police as set out in the City Charter and the amend-
ments thereto, shall be fined not less than One (4;:1.00) Dollar
and not exceeding Two Hundred ($200.00) Dollars. Each days viola-
tion hereof shall constitute a separate offense.
SECTION 2. The necessity for precluding persons other
than the !-olice Department from wearing uniforms and badges of such
department creates a public emergency and public imperative necessity
requiring the suspension of the Charter rule 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, and the Mayor having declared that
such public emergency and imperative necessity exist, and having
requested that such Charter rule be suspended, and that this ordi-
nance be passed finally on the date of its introduction and take
effect and be in full force and effect from and after its passage,
ZT IS ACCORDINGLY SO ORDAINED.
PASSED and APPROVED this _ day of , ,, D. 1947-
ATTEST:
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City of Corpus Christi, Texas
City Secretary
APPROVED AS TO UGAL FORM:
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City Attorney
Corpus Christi, Texas
July —" ', 1947
TO THE MEILBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL
Corpus Christi, Texas
Gentlemen:
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; 1, 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 �^ •. _. r r�
City of Corpus Christi, Texas
The Charter rule was suspended by the following vote:
Wesley E. Seale
George R. Clark, Jr.
John A. Ferris
Ray R. Henry
Joe T. Dawson
The above ordinance was passed by the following vote:
Wesley E. Seale
George R. Clark, Jr.
John A. Ferris
Ray R. Henry
Joe T. Dawson