HomeMy WebLinkAbout02532 ORD - 06/04/1949AN ORDINANCE
AMENDING AN ORDINANCE DESIGNATED
AS ORDINANCE N0, 17911 ENTITLED,
"AN ORDINANCE DECLARING THE POLICY
OF TIPc CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS,
IN REGARD TO EMPLOYEES OF THE CITY;"
SO AS TO PROVIDE TIIAT ALL FULL HTE
EMPLOYEES OF THE CITY SHALL BE PAID
ON THE BASIS OF FORTY (4o) HOURS
WORK PER WEEK EY AMENDING SECTION 3
OF SAID ORDINANCE NO. 17911; MID DE-
CLARING AN EMERGENCY.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS
CIR2ISTI, TEXAS:
SECTION 1. That Section 3 of Ordinance No, 1794 be amended
so as to hereafter read as follows:
"SECTION 3. All full -time employees of the City
of Corpus Christi shall work and be on duty not less than
Forty (40) hours per week."
SECTION 2. All other provisions of said Ordinance No. 1794
hereby continue in full force and effect according to the terms of said
Ordinance.
SECTION 3. The fact that the welfare of the City of Corpus
Christi and its citizens requires that employees of the City be employed
on the same basis as employees of the public in general and that such
hours of employment will enable the employees to devote their full time
and energy during business hours to the discharge of the work of the
City creates a public emergency and public imperative necessity requiring
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 several meetings
of the City Council, and the Mayor having declared that such public emer-
gency and imperative necessity a xist, and having requested that such
Charter rule be suspended, and that this ordihence be passed finally on the
data of its introduction and take effect and be in full force and effect
from and after its passage, IT IS ACCORDINGLY SO ORDAINED.
PASSED AND APPROVED this /�, day of June, A. D. 1949.
ATTEST:
_,�_... City Seeretary - MAYOR
AP OVED AS 0 LEGAL FORM: City of Corpus Christi, Texas
City ttor /i t/
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Corpus Christi, Texas
June[ _, 19i�9
To THE h%hmas OF TEE CITY COUNCIL
Corpus Christi, Texas
Cantlemon:
For the reasons set forth in the emergency clause o£ the fore-
going 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; 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 o£ Corpus Christi, Texas
.The Charter rule was suspended by the following vote;
Leslie Wasserman
Jack DeForrast
Harney Cott "•!�
Sydney E. Herndon "•�t
George L. Lowman OOL
The above ordinance was passed by the following vote.-
Leslie Wasserman
Jack DeForrest
Harney Cottg
Sydney E. Herndon
George L. Lowman
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