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AN ORDINANCE /f%, Z 73
AMENDING SECTION
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T THE PUBLIC STREETS,
ALLEYS, AND OTHER THOROUGHFARES IN THE
CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS, AND FIX-
ING PENALTY FOR VIOLATIONS,AND REPEAL-
ING ALL OTHER ORDINANCES AND SECTIONS
OF ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT HERWITH,"
BY ADDING THERETO A SECTION TO BE EN-
FOR THE COLLECTION OF REASONABLE FMS
MR TM IMPOUNDING OF I LE THE
.STORAGE OF IMPOUNDED VEHICLES, —ANDDF-
CLIMING WHAT FEES SHALL BE ON-
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BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL
OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXASt
SECTION 1. Ordinance No. 22!41, passed by the City Council
of the City of Corpus Christi, Texas, on the 16th day of March,
191.48, recorded in Volume 16, page 197 of the Ordinance and Resolu-
tion Records of the City of Corpus Christi, Texas, and entitled:
"AN ORDINANCE REGUTATING TRAFFIC UPON THE
PUBLIC STREETS, ALLEYS, AND OTHER THOROUGH-
-. FARES IN THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRIISTI, TEXAS,
AND FIXING PENALTY FOR VIOLATIONS, AND RE-
PEALING ALL OTHER ORDINANCES AND SECTIONS
OF ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT RERZMH,"
AND Section 134 thereof is hereby amended so that there shall
be added to Section 1314, a sub - section entitled 1304 (b), which
shall read as followst
s(b) FEES FOR IMPOUNDING AND STORAGE OF VEHICLESt
Any vehicle which has been impounded heretofore or which
may be impounded hereafter, as herein provided, may be
reclaimed by the owner or person entitled to the poem
session of such vehicle upon the following conditions:
1. Upon satisfactory proof that he is
entitled to the possession of such
vehicle;
2. Upon the payment of the sum of $5.00,
which sum is hereby declared to be a
reasonable service charge for the im-
pounding of such vehicles; and
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3. Upon the payment of a storage fee
of $1.00 for each day or part thereof,
after the first day, which said ve-
hicle is impounded, which storage
fee is hereby declared to be reasonable."
SECTION 2. The necessity of declaring reasonable
service and storage charges for the impounding and storage of vehicles,
so that such charges will adequately repay the City for the expenses
incurred in the impounding of vehicles under provisions of Section
134 (a) of Ordinance No. 2241, creates a public emergency and impera-
tive 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 or resolution
shall be read at three several meetings of the City Council, and the
Mayor having declared that such public emergency and imperative public
necessity exists and having requested that such Charter Rule be
suspended, and that this ordinance be passed finally on the day it is
introduced, take effect and be in full force and effect from and after
its passage, it is accordingly so ordained. PASSED AND APPROVED, This
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MA OR
City of Corpus Christi, Texas
APPROVED AS TO LEGAL FORM:
City' kttorn671
Corpus Christi, Texas
. 1949
TO THE M HERS OF TEE 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 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 Counoilz 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,
I
MAYOR��_...
City of Corpus Christi, Texas
The Charter rule was suspended by the flollowing vote=
Leslie Wasserman
Jack DeForrest
Barney Cott
Sydney E. Herndon
George L. Lowman
The above ordinance wag
Leslie Wasserman
Jack DeForrest
Barney Cott
Sydney E. Herndon
George L. Lowman
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passed by the following vote.
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