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AN OHDIRAXCE
LUTHORIZING AM DIRECTING THE CITY hDINACER
TO EEECUTE FOR AND CN BEHALF OF THE CITY
OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEAS, A TSASE CONTRACT
WITH OPTION TO PURCHASE SEVEN (7) AUTOMO-
BILES FOR A TOTAL CONSIDERATION OF TWELVE
THOUSAND SEVEN DOILAU AND NINETY FOUR CENTS
($12,007.911) FOR TEEM USE OF POLICE AND FIBS
DEPARTMENTS. SAM AMOUNT BEING PAYABLE OR
OF CCRRBBT FUND NO. 102, AND A COPY OF LNLICH
CONTRACT IS A PANT OF THIS ORDINANCHt AND
DSCLARING AN MERGENCY.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS
CHRISTI, TEXAS%
SECTION 1. That the City Manager of the City of Corpus
Christi, be and he in hereby authorized and direoted to execute a
lease contraot with option to purohase seven (7) automobiles for a
total oonsideration of Twelve Thousand Seven Dollars and Ninety -Four
Cents ($12,007.911) for the use of the Police and Fire Departments,
eadd amount being payable out of Currant Fund No. 102, a copy of
whioh oontract is a part of this ordiaanos and reads as follows, to
wits
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STATE OF TEXAS 6
COUNTY OF NUECES
This LEASE AGREEMENT made and entered into between the CITY OF CORPUS
CHRISTI, a municipal corporation of Nueces County, Texas, hereinafter called the
CITY and FRANK HAYDEN MOTORS, CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS
hereinafter called LESSON,
W I T N E S S E T H
I.
LESSOR has leased, demised and rented, and by these presents does lease,
demise and rent to CITY for the period from the let day of December A.D.
1949, to the tad day of August, A.D. 1951, both dates inclusive, the following
equipment: 1949 Dodge 4-door sedans, described below
Stock No.
Color
Serial No.
Motor No.
Unit Price
Department
309
Maroon
31357560
D30- 160435'
$1,663.92
Fire �u,�r �•�` `• "s
444
Granite
Grey
31402456
D30- 231983'
1,663.92
Police
428
Granite
Grey
31403753
D30- 234071
1,663.92 a
Police
431
Granite
Grey
31403845
D30- 234053•
1,663.92 4
Police
418
Granite
Grey
31398917
D30- 226341
1,663.92 Z
Police
412
Beige
31399520
D30- 227592 -
11663.92 c
Police
417
LaPiata
Blue
31398630
D30-225133-
1,663.92 °'
Police
It is distinctly and specifically understood that the equipment herein
leased and rented by CITY from LESSOR shall be used exclusively in the servioe of
CITY.
I.I.
In consideration for the lease and rental of said equipment, CITY promises
to pay LESSOR and LESSOR agrees to accept from CITY the following rentals on or be-
fore the dates specified below:
Date Amount
Initial payment $3900.00 and
int. on dnf rr d halanee from
Dec .1 , 194% 8 4,260.50
08 when !i0% of above equipment is
delivered to CITY
August 2, 1950 lease payment in advance to $ 3,900.00
August 2, 1951; final payment to exercise purchase $ 3,847.44
option
It is agreed by LESSOR AND CITY that such rental shall be paid from the
ourrent revenues of CITY for the years in which such payments fall due.
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III.
It is recognized that some of the equipment will be delivered by
LESSOR to CITY upon the effective date of this lease, while some of the equip-
ment may not be delivered on such date, but LESSOR agrees and binds itself that
as to that portion of the equipment not immediately delivered to CITY that it
will forthwith order such equipment from the manufacturer and that such will be
sent to LESSOR earmarked for the CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI and delivery will be
made immediately to CITY upon receipt thereof; in this connection, it is esti-
mated that total delivery hereunder can be effected within 15 days
after the execution of this agreement.
Trith reference to the above equipment that is delivered upon the
effective date of this agreement, the CITY accepts such equipment in the condi-
tion in which it is new in, and LESSOR shall not be obligated or required to make
any improvements, replacements or repairs of any kind or character upon or to
said equipment or any of it during the term of this lease.
11th reference to the equipment which will be delivered after the
effective date of this agreement? it is agreed by and between the parties here-
to that the CITY will have a reasonable time after the delivery of such equip-
ment to determine whether to accept or reject same. LESSOR shall not be obli-
gated to incur or pay any expense of any kind or character during the entire
term of this lease by reason of or in connection with the purpose for which said
equipment was designed. CITY agrees (1) to take the some care of said equipment
as a reasonably careful person would take care of his own property, and (2) to
keep said equipment in good repair and condition during the entire term of this
lease, subject only to normal wear and tear, by reason of its use by CITY for the
purpose for which said equipment was designed. CITY further agrees (j) that if
any of said equipment is lost, taken or destroyed by fire, theft, windstorm, public
disaster, act of God, or any casualty or cause whatsoever, there shall be no abate-
ment of the rent provided for herein and (4) that CITY shall promptly and at its
expense replace any of said equipment which is so taken, lost or destroyed, and
(5) if a registration of license fee is required by the State of Texas than the
CITY shall be liable for the payment of such fee and in the event such a registra-
ti on or license fee is paid by the LESSOR, then the CITY shall reimburse the LESSOR
for any and all amounts paid as such license or registration fee by the LESSOR, and
(6) at the time the CITY exercises its option to purchase, as provided for herein,
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CITY agrees and obligates itself to execute all necessary and proper exemption
certificates on all Federal excise taxes paid by LESSOR and if within 30
days after the purchase by the CITY of the equipment herein leased and rented
by CITY from LESSOR, LESSOR has not been refunded by the Federal government said
Federal excise taxes, CITY binds and obligates itself to pay to LESSOR the full
amount of said Federal Excise taxes, provided, however, that if after CITY has
paid to the LESSOR the amount of said excise taxes, such taxes be refunded to
LESSOR, than LESSOR binds and obligates itself to pay to CITY the amount of said
Federal excise taxes so refunded by the Federal government to LESSOR and thereto-
fore paid by the CITY to LESSOR, CITY (7) still further agrees to indemnify, hold
and save LESSOR harmless from any civil or criminal suit or liability whatsoever,
arising out of or in connection with the use or possession of toid equipment by
CITY under this lease and for the entire term thereof.
IV.
CITY shall have the right and option to purchase said equipment from
LESSOR upon or before the expiration date of this lease, if CITY is not in default
in any of its obligations under this lease. This option may be exercised by CITY'S
giving notice in writing to LESSOR not lose than thirty (30) days prior to said
data of its intention to exercise said option, and by its payment to LESSOR in cash
of the sum of $ 3,847.44 on or before the expiration date of this
lease. There shall be deducted, however, from such purchase price the total amount
of all rentals paid by CITY to LESSOR for the rent of said equipment as provided
herein. The option payment for the purchase of and acquisition of title to said
equipment as so computed is $ 12,007.94 and the total consideration of
the rental and subsequent purchase by option of said equipment is the principal
sum of $--,647-44 , plus interest on the deferred payments subsequent
to the date of this instrument at the rate of 4 percent per annum iron
that date until paid. Upon exercise of the option and payment of the purchase price
upon the terms and within the time aforesaid, LESSOR agrees promptly to execute and
deliver to CITY such instruments or evidences of title to said equipment as may be
necessary or proper to neat good title thereto in CITY.
P.
Default on the part of CITY in paying said rent or any installment thereof,
as hereLnabove provided, or default on CITY-S part in keeping or perfo iming any of
the terms, covenants, agreements or conditions contained in this lease shall authorise
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LESSOR, at its option and at any time after such default, and after thirty (30)
days' written notice to CITY, to declare this lease to rminated and to repoasess
said leased equipment with or without legal process, and without prejudice to
any of its other legal rights, and any rentals provided for hereunder and unpaid
at the time of such default shall become, at LESSORIS option, immediately due
and payable and shall bear interest from such date until paid at the rate ofd
percent per annum. In case CITY makes default in the performance of any of the
terms, covenants, agreements or conditions contained in this lease, and LESSOR
places the enforcement of this lease, or any part thereof, or the collection of
any rent due or to become due hereunder or the recovery of possession of said
equipment or any of it in the hands of an attorney, or files suit upon same,
CITY agrees to pay LESSOR, in addition to the rental payments provided for here-
in, a reasonable attorney's fee.
VI.
It is understood and agreed by and between the parties hereto as follevs,
1. All payments of rentals, or any other payments hereunder shall be
made by CITY to the account of LESSOR, or its order, in
STATE NATIONAL Rank, Corpus Christi, Texas.
2. This lease cannot be changed, varied or extended except by instru-
ment in writing signed by LESSOR and CITY, and failure to exercise the option of
forfeiting this lease in case of default on the part of CITY shall nab waive the
right of forfeiture, and any right accruing to LESSOR under this lease to forfeit
same shall not be waived or defaulted except by written waiver of LESSOR, and accep-
tance of rent shall not be construed as such waiver.
3. A holding over after the termination of this lease shall not renew
or extend the same, but shall constitute CITY a tenant or possessor of said equip-
ment at sufferance.
V11.
LESSOR covenants and agrees (1) that CITY, on paying the said rent and
performing the said covenants contained herein in the manner and within the times
herein provided, shall and may peaceable and quietly have, hold and enjoy possession
and use of said leased equipment for the term aforesaid, and (2) that it will defend
CITY in peaceable possession of said leased equipment for the full term of this
lease, CITY covenants and agrees not to suffer, commit or permit any waste of or
damage to the leased equipment or any of it during the entire term of this lease,
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The apparatus delivered to the CITY by LESSOR is warranted and guaranteed
and represented to be in fit, sound and workmanlike condition and to conform in all
respects to the manufacturer's guarantee given to LESSOR.
VIII.
It is understood and agreed by and between the parties hereto that in
the event the CITY at any time should exercise its option to purchase the equipment
specified herein, the CITY shall have no right to purchase only a part of said
'.� equipment but the CITY shall be required and obligated to exercise its option
rights provided in this agreement on the whole of said equipment.
IX.
In this agreement where "it" is used, "he" shall apply in the proper
instance.
IN TESTIMONY VUEREOF, the CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI has caused this lease
agreement to be signed by its City Manager, countersigaed by its City Controller,
and attested by its City Secretary, with its corporate seal affixed thereto, pur-
suant to the terms of an ordinance passed by the City Council, and LESSOR has
caused this agreement to be executed this day of , A.D. 1949•
Attest:
CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, Twuz
By
. City Manager
City Secretary Countersigneess
City Controller
FRANK HAYDEN MOTORS
LESSOR
Approvedo
Usistant fty ttorney
SECTION 2.. The necessity for providing equipment for the
use of Police end Fire Departments as soon as possible, being of public
importance, creates a public emergency and a public imperative necessity
requiring the suspension of the Charter rule that no ordinance or resolve+
tion shall be passed finally on the date it is introduced and that such
ordinance or resolution shall be road at three several meetings of the
City Council. and the Mayor having deelarod that such public emergency
and imperative necessity exist, and having requested that such Charter
rule be suspended, and that this ordinenae be passed finally on the
date of its introduotion and take effect and be in full farce and
effect from and after its passage, IT IS ACCORDINGLY SO ORDAINED,
PASSED AND APPROM This &,%day of �ov��,,, ��. r. A. D.
1919.
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ATTEST: `MAYOR
City of Corpus Chrieti, Texas
DIV Secretary
APPROVED AS TO LEGAL FORM
ty A erney.
Corpus Christi, Texas
Yom. ! d— 2q . 1949
TO THE MEMBER OF THE CITY COUNCIL
Corpus Christi, Texas
Gentleman:
For the reasons set forth in the emergency clause of 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 pees this ordinance finally on the date it is
introduced, or at the present meeting of the City Council.
Respectfully,
MAYOR
/ t
City of Corpus Christi, Texas
The Charter rule was suspended by the fbllowing vote:
Leslie Wasserman
Jack DeForrest 0�+,
Barney Cott
Sydney E. Herndon
George L. Lowman
The above ordinance was passed by the following vote:
Leslie Wasserman
Jack DeForrest
Barney Cott
Sydney E. Herndon
George L. Lowman
'CP `J'
-1 d 9 , 1949
T certify to the City Council that the money required
for the contract, agreement, obligation, or expenditure contemplated
in the above and foregoing Ordinance is in the Treasury of the City e
of Corpus Christi to the credit of Fund No.
from which it is proposed to be drawn,
and such money is not appropriated for any other purpose.
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