HomeMy WebLinkAbout02285 ORD - 06/01/1948AN ORDINANCE � ,
REQUIRING ALL PUBLIC BATH HOUSES AND SWINBUNG
POOLS IN THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI TO PROVIDE
LIFE GUARDS DURING THE TIME THEY ARE OPEN FOR
BUSINESS; PRESCRIBING THE PE"NALTY FOR VIOLATION
OF THIS ORDINANCE AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.
BE IT ORDAINED BY TBE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS
CHRISTI, TEXAS:
SECTION 1. That any person or persons, firm or corporation
operating public bath houses or public swimming pools within the City
Limits of the City of Corpus Christi where bathing or swimming facilities
are being made available to the public shall at all hours when in oper-
ation have at least One life guard, who holds a Senior Red Cross Life
Saving Certificate, on duty.
SECTION 2. Any person or persons, firm or corporation who
violates azry provision of this ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a
misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in any am not
less than Five ($5.00) Dollars and not more than Two Hundred ($200.00)
Dollars for each offense and a failure to comply with this ordinance
shall be deemed a continuing offense and each days continuance of a
failure to comply herewith shall constitute a separate and distinct
offense for each of said days.
SECTION 3. The necessity for providing life guards at all
public bath houses and public swimming pools in order to protect the
lives of the citizens of the City of Corpus Christi creates a public
emergency and public imperative necessity requiring the suspension of
the Charter rule that no ordinance or resolution shall be passed finally
OIL 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 ORDAINED.
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Co Christi, Texas
G, 194e
TO THE MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL
Corpus Christi, Texas
Gentlemen:
For the reasons set forth in the emergency clause of the
foreg Ding ordinance, a public emergency and imperative necessity
exist for the suspension of the Charter rule or requirement that n o
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,
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City of Corpus Christi, Texas
The Charter rule was suspended by the following vote;
YYesley L. Seale
George R. Clark, Jr.
John A. Ferris
R. R. Henry
Joe T. Dawson
The above ordinance was passed by t �foll_i-. vote:
'Wesley E. Seale
George R. Clark, Jr.
John A. Ferris
R. R. Henry
Joe T. Dawson
AN ORDINANCE NO.
PASSED AND APPROVED this _ Z day o£
A. D. 1948.
R
City Of Corpus Christi, Texas.
ATTESTi
ity S ry
APPROVED AS TO LEGAL FORM-
Ci t —y
si ant City A torney
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