HomeMy WebLinkAbout02722 ORD - 03/14/1950AN ORDINANCE
AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 22La. PASSED AND APPROVED
BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF TIME CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI,
017 THE 16TH DAY OF MARCH, 1948, ENTITLED "REGULAT-
ING TRAFFIC. UPON THE PUBLIC.`STREETS, ALLEYS, AND
OTHER THOROUGHFARES IN TIE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI,
TEXAS, AND FIXING PENALTY FOR VIOLATIONS AND REPE3L-
ING ALI, OTHER ORDINANCES AND SECTIONS OF ORDINANCES
IN CONFLICT HERETITH. ", BY AMENDING SECTION 65 of
ARTICLE VIII THEREOF, AND DECLARING AN LMERGENCY.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL
OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI. TEXAS:
SECTION I. That Section 65, Article VIII of Ordinance No, 2241
shall be and is hereby amended so as to hereafter read as follows;
"SECTION 65. Signs to bear the word tStop'. --
Every sign erected pursuant to this article shall
bear the word FStop' in letters not less than 5
inches in height and such sign may at night time
be rendered luminous by steady or flashing in-
ternal illumination, or by a fixed floodlight pro-
jected on the face of the sign, or by efficient re-
flecting elements on the face of the sign. Every
stop sign shall be located as near as practicable
at the nearest line of the crosswalk on the near
side of the intersection or, if none, at the near-
est line of the roadway."
SECTION II. The fact that it is imperative and necessary to
the public safety and general welfare to regulate traffic upon public
streets of this City creates a public emergency and imperative public
necessity requiring the suspension of that certain Charter Rule which
provides 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 necessity and emergency exist, requesting
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 OR-
DAINED.
PASSED AND APPROVED, This 114th day of 1Iarch, A.D. 1950-
4 A ST: YMA OA City of Corpus �Christi
City Secretary
r>:. . 'Singer
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APPROVED AS TO LEGAL FORMt
City Attorney
TO TBE IMMBERS 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 imperative necessity exist
for the suspension of the Charter rule or requirement that no ordin-
ance or resolution shall be passed finally on the date it is intro-
duced, 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,
MAYOR
C
City of Corpus Christi
The Charter rule was suspended by the following vote;
Leslie "Wasserman
Jack DeForrest nj� J
Barney Cott
Sydney E. Herndon
George L. Lowman
The above ordinance was passed by the following vote-
Leslie Wasserman
Jack De Forrest
Barney Cott
Sydney E. Herdon
George L. Lowman
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