HomeMy WebLinkAbout02601 ORD - 09/27/1949AN ORDINANCE
AMENDING AN ORDINANCE ENTITLED, "AN ORDINANCE
REGULATING TRAFFIC UPON THE PUBLIC STREETS, ALLEYS,
AND OTHER THOROUGHFARES IN THE CITY OF CORPUS
CHRISTI, TEXAS, AND FIXING PENALTY FOR VIOLATIONS
AND REPEALING ALL OTHER ORDINANCES AND SECTIONS OF
ORDINANCES IH CONFLICT HffonTH: , THE SAME BEING
ORDINANCE NO. 22la, PASSED AND APPROVED BY THE CITY
COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI ON THE 16TH
DAY OF MARCH, 1948, BY ADDING THEREUNTO A SECTION
106 (a) PROHIBITING THE PARKING OF ALL TRAILERS,
SEMI- TRAILERc, POLE TRAILERS AND HOUSE TRAILERS
UPON THE PUBLIC STREETS WM THE SAME ARE NOT
ATTACHED TO A TRUCK TRACTOR OR OTHER MOTOR
VEHICLE, AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.
BE IT ORTAINan By THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI,
TEXAS:
SECTION 1. That Ordinance Po, 2241 passed and approved by the
City Council on the 16th day of March, 1948, entitled, "AN ORDINANCE REGU-
LATING TRAFFIC UPON THE PUBLIC STREETS, ALLEYS, AND OTHER THOROUGHFARES IN
THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS, AND FIXING PENALTY FOR VIOIATIONS AND
REPEALING ALL OTHER ORDINANCES AND SECTIONS OF ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT EWE -
WITH", be amended by the addition of the following section to follow Section
106 thereof and to be known as 106 (s):
"SECTION 106 (a)- -PARKING OF TRe ILMS ON PUBLIC STREETS PROHIBITED.- -
No person shall park any trailer, aemi- trailer, pole trailer, or house
trailer upon a street unless the same is attached to a motor vehicle
capable of moving the said trailer, semi - trailer, pole trailer, or
house trailer. Am used herein the words °trailer ", "semi - trailer",
"pole trailer" and "house trailer" should be interpreted as defined
by Article 67O1d, Section 5 of the Revised Civil Statutes of the State
of Taasa, and the words 'motor vehicle" shall be interpreted as defined
In Article 67O1d, Section 2b of the Revised Civil Statutes of the State
of Texas.'
SECTION 2. Ln as much as unattended trailers of the types herein
specified create a traffic hazard and hamper the use of the streets as fire
lanes creates a public emergency and imperative public necessity requiring
the suspension of the Charter rule providing that no Ordinance or Resolution
shall be passed finally on the day it is introduced, and that such Ordinance
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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-
Saucy and imperative public necessity exists, and having requested that
said Charter rule be suspended and that this Ordinance be passed finally
on the date it is introduced, and that this Ordinance take effect and be
in full force and effect from and after its passage, IT IS SO ORDAINED-
PASSED ARD APPROVED this tbe_224ay of 4-P , A. D. 1949•
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ATTEST:
City of Corpus Christi, Texas
City Secretary
APPROVED AS TO LEGAL FORM.
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Corpus Christi Texas
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TO THE 2EMMS OF THE CITY COUNCIL
Corpus Christi, Texas
Gentlemen:
For the reasons set forth in the emergency clause of the fore-
going Ordinance, a public emergency and an 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
thsit such Ordinance or Resolution shall be read at three several meet-
ings of the City Couxmili 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 votes
Leslie Wassermann
Jack orrect
Barney C Cott
Sydney E. Herndon
George L. Lowman
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The above Ordinance was passed
by the ffollawing votes
Leslie Wasserman
Jack DeForrest
Barney Cott
Sydney E. Herndon
George L. Lowman
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