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AN ORDINANCE ?)a
AMMING ARTICLE %PI OF ORDINANCE 10.
22la, REGULATING TRAFFIC UPON TEE POLIO
aTHEETS, ATl.F.4S, AND OTHER. THOROUGHFARES
IN THE CITY OF CoRPUs CHRISTI, TEXAS, AND
FIXING FRULTr FOR V IOLATIONB AHD REFFA _
ING ALL OT.BEH ORDINANCES AND SECTIONS OF
ORDIDTANCFS IN CONFLICT HEREWITH, AND DE-
CLARING AN EMERGENCY.
Rm IT CRIAImEO SY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS
CHRISTI, TEXAS,
SECTICN 1. That Article %PI be amended so as to include in Sec. 134
paragraphs (b), (c), (d) and (e) reading as follows:
'SECTION 1311. (b) Any motor vehicle demolished or
disabled and involved in a wreok or collision on the
streets of the City, and which is unable to to proceed
safely under its own poser, or when the person or per-
sons in charge are unable or fail to have said motor
vehicle removed, the Police Department or a member
thereof shall Dense said motor vehicle to be towed to
the City Pound, where it shall be kept until released
by the written order of the owner and as hereinafter
provided.
(o) There is hereby assessed
against each motor vehicle towed or caused to be towed
by the Police Department to the City Pound a towage
fee of Five Dollars (05.00) and a Storage fee of Fifty
Cents (00.50) Per day; provided, however, that in the
event that the motor vehicle is reclaimed and posses-
sion regained by the owner or his designated agent
within a period of seven days from the date of impound-
ing, no storage fee will be assessed,
(d) The Police Departmant shall
demand and be paid, before releasing a motor vahiole,
the towage fee awdor accrued storage fees, for which
a receipt shall be given, which money shall be de-
posited by the Chief of Police or by his designated
agent with the City Controller for deposit with the
City Treasury. In the event that a towage service is
used other than that provided by an agency of the
City, said towage fee aball be paid by the City to
the person or persons rendering said towage service
upon repossession of the oar by the owner, and pay-
ment of the above described fees to the Folios
Department; provided, however, that the City Manager,
may, in his discretion, reimburse for the services
rendered by a private towage before the motor vehicle
Is reoleimed by the owner.
(e) The City shall have a lien for
the towage and/or storage fee upon the motor vehicle
so towed, which lien shall be prior and superior to
all other liens of every kind and description."
SECTION 2. The fact that it is necessary to establish
towage and storage fees in order to take care of the handling of
abandoned vehicles and others of similar nature creates a public
emergency and public imperative neoeesity requiring the avepeaaion of
the Charter rule that no ordinance or resolution shall be passed finally
oa the date it is introduced and that Such ordinance or resolution shell
be read at three several meetings of the olty Council, and the ]dayor
having deolared 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 effeet and be in Pull £oroe cad ePPeot from and after its
passage, IT IS ACCMM33TTGLY SO ORDAIMM.
PASWM AND APPBOM thisZZ _day Of July, A. D. 191.{8.
ATTEST. G
City of Corpus Christi, Texas
Oi 60 ay
APPROVED AS TO LEGAL FOMI.
Acs s au L o'May
Corpus Christi, Te=
JulY_g f , 1948
TO THE MEMERS OF THE CITY COUMIL
Corpus Chrioti. Tease
Gentlement
For the reasons set forth in the emergency clause of the
foregoing ordinance, a public emergency and imperative necessity
exist for the suspenei= of the Charter rule or requirement that no
ordinenoa or resolution shall be passed finally on the date it is
introduced, and that such ordinanoa or resolution shall be read at
throe meetings of the City COUncilj 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.
ffiAYOE
City of Corpus Christi, Texas
The Charter rule was suspended by the following votet
Wesley E. Seale
George R. Clark, Jr.
Sohn A. Ferris
R. R. Henry
Joe T. Dawson
The above ordinance was passed by the following voter
Wesley B. Seals
George R. Clark, Jr.
John A. Ferris
R. H. Henry
Joe T. Dawson
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