HomeMy WebLinkAbout02256 ORD - 04/13/1948AN ORDINANCE
REPEALING ORDINANCE N0. 1973 PASSED AND APPROVED
BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI
ON THE 6th DAY CF SEPTEMBER, 1946; AND PROVIDING
FOR THE PROMOTION OF PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE,
REGULATING THE KEEPING OF CERTAIN ANIMALS WITHIN
THE CORPORATE LIMITS OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI;
PROVIDING FOR HEALTH MEASURES AND RULES INCIDENT
TO THE PRESERVATION OF THE HEALTH OF THE CITIZENS
OF CORPUS CHRISTI; PROHIBITING THE KEEPING OF SWINE
WITHIN THE CCRPORATE LIMITS OF THE CITY; PROVIDING
& FOR THE VIOIATICN THEREOF, AND DECLARING AN
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CCRPUS
CHRISTI, TEXAS,
SECTION 1. That Ordinance No. 1973 passed and approved by
the City Council of the City of Corpus Christi, Texas, on the 6th day
of September, 1946, and recorded in Volume 15, Page 121, of the Ordi-
nance and Resolution Records of said City, is hereby repealed and
declared to be of no further force or effect.
SECTION 2. Wherever in this ordinance the following terms
are used, they shall have the meanings respeotively ascribed to them
in this section.
ANIMALS. Horses, mules, donkeys, cattle, goats and sheep.
E'EEPER. Person, firm or corporation owning and /or actually
keeping or maintaining any of the animals referred to in
Section 3 hereof.
PERMIT. Any permit granted by the City Health Officer pur-
euant to power granted to him in this Ordinance.
PERSON. Individual, firm or corporation.
RATPROOF. State of being constructed so as to effectively
prevent entry of rats.
SANITARY. Any condition of good order and cleanliness which
precludes the probability of disease transmission.
SECTION 3- It shall be unlawful for any person to keep or main-
tain any of the following described animals without having a valid permit
from the City Health Officer authorizing the keeping of the same- horses,
mules, donkeys, cattle, goats and sheep. Each such permit, unless revoked
by the City Health Officer, shall be valid and effective for not more than
twelve (12) months from the date of the issuance thereof.
SECTION 4- Keeper. of any of said animals shall be granted
permit. by the City Health Officer upon their making application there-
for and complying with the provisions of this Ordinance. Application
for a permit shall be submitted to the City Health Officer on a form
prepared by him, which form shall require applicant to furnish general
information reasonably needed by the City Health Officer in administering
the provisions of this Ordinance, including such information as the
number and kind Of animals to which the application pertains, the loca-
tion and description of the place said animala are proposed to be kept,
the shortest distance between the exterior limits of such place and
the exterior limits of the nearest dwelling resided in by anyone other
than applicant, and further including a statement that applicant will
at all times keep said animals in acoordance with the provisions of this
Ordinance.
SECTION 5, The failure of any keeper of any of said animals
to comply with the provisions of this ordinance shall be cause for the
City Health Officer to refuse to grant a permit for the keeping of such
animals, or, if a permit shall have been previously granted to such
keeper, shall be cause for the revocation of same.
SECTION 6. hbery keeper of any of .aid animals shall confine
the same in an enclosure sufficient to prevent their running at large
and such enclosure shall be maintained in a clean and sanitary condi-
tion at all time and an approved insecticide shall be used. as often as
deemed necessary by the City Health Officer. -
SECTION 7. -very keeper of any of said animals shall cause
the litter and droppings therefrom to be collected daily in a con-
tainer or receptacle of such a type that when closed it is ratproof-
and fly -tight and after each such collection shall cause such container
or receptacle to be kept closed. At least once each week, each such
keeper shall cause all litter and droppings so collected to be disposed
of in such a way as not to permit fly breeding.
SECTION 8. Every keeper of any of said animals shall cause
all feed provided therefor to be stored and kept in a rat - proof, fly -
tight building, box, container, or receptacle.
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SECTION 9. dithin one hundred (100') feet of any dwelling
resided in by anyone besides their owner, it shall be unlawful to keep
any horses, mules, donkeys, cattle, goats and sheep. Animal. shall
be deemed to be kept within one hundred (100') feet of a dwelling when-
ever any part of the exterior limits of the place or area within which
they are confined is less than that distance from the exterior limits
of such dwelling, exeept the one hundred (1001) feat distance requirement
shall not apply in areas in the City zoned for heavy industry or here-
after zoned for heavy industry.
SECTION 10. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or
corporation to keep or cause to be kept for any purpose whatsoever any
swine within the corporate limits of the City Of Corpus Christi, Texas.
SECTION 11. This ordinance shall not apply to the keeping of
dogs as set out in Ordinance No. 2079, passed and approved by the City
Council on the 6th day of 1%y, 1947, which shall govern in regard to the
regulations of the keeping of dogs in the City limits of the City of
Corpus Christi and this ordinance shall in no manner affect, nor shall
same repeal, Ordinance He. 2079 and said Ordinance :Io. 2079 shall remain '
in full force and effect.
SECTION 12. Any keeper in violation of the terms of this ordi-
nance at the time of its passage shall have ninety (90) days from the
effective date of said ordinance to conform to same.
SECTION 13. Violation of azW provisions of this Ordinance by
any person, firm or corporation shall constitute a misdemeanor upon con-
viction of which in the Corporation Court of the City of Corpus Christi
a fine of not less than Five ($5.00) nor more than Two Hundred ($200.00)
Dollars shall be imposed, and each day that such violation continues shall
be a separate offense.
SECTION 14. If for any reason any section, paragraph, subdivision,
clause, phrase, or provision of this Ordinance shall be held invalid, it
shall not affect any valid provisions of this or any other Ordinance of the
City of Corpus Christi to which these rules and regulations relate.
SECTION 15. This Ordinance .hall take effect and shall be in
force from and after the time of its passage and publication as provided
by law.
SECTION 16. The necessity for protecting the health and
welfare of the citizens Of the City Of Corpus Christi by passing proper
health ordinances such as this ordinance 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 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 ORDAIPTF_D.
PASSED APTD APPROVED this _ZG r day of April, D. 1948.
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City of Corpus Christi, Texas
ATTESTe y
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APPROVED
TO LE CAL r ^ORM:
Corpus Christi, Texas
April 13, 1948
TO THE 1dEb'UMS OF THE CITY COULCIL
Corpus Christi, Texas
Gentlemen:
For the reasons set forth in the emergency clause of the
foregoing ordinance, a public emergency and imperative nsoessity
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; 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,
City of Corpus Christi, Texas
The Charter rule was suspended by the following vote;
Wesley B. Seale
George R. Clark, Jr.
John A. Ferris
R. R. Henry
Joe T. Dawson
The above ordinance was passed by following votes
Wesley E. Seale
George R. Clark, Jr.
Job. A. Ferris
R. R. Henry
Joe T. Dawson