HomeMy WebLinkAbout03003 ORD - 03/20/1951AN ORDINANCE
BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS
C CHRISTI, TEXAS, ADOPTING VOTING MACHINES AS
THU MAY BECCME AOAILABLE�F�fi SE IN ELECTION
TO HE HELD ON THE 3RD DAY OF (PHIL, 175r,=
DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.
WHEREAS, The Commissioners Court of Nueces County in special
session on June 30, 1950, has adopted, for experimental use, voting
machines as they may be available for Nueces County; and
WHEREAS, It is desired to adopt for use in elections for
the City of Corpus Christi voting machines as they may be available
for the City of Corpus Christi, Texas;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF ITIE
CITY OF CARPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS:
as they may be available
SECTION 1. That voting machines are hereby adopted/for use
in an election to be held in the City of Corpus Christi on April 31
1951.
SECTION 2. That voting machines shall be used for the cast-
ing of absentee votes at said election.
SECTION 3. The necessity of adopting said voting machines
in the aforesaid election, being of great public importance, creates
a public emergency and an im:erative public necessity requiring the
suspension of the Charter rule providing that no ordinance or resolu-
tion shall be passed finally on the day it is introduced and that such
ordinance or resolution dull be read at three several meetings of iae
City Council, and the Mayor, having declared such emergency and
necessity to exist, having requested that said Charter rule be sus-
pended 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 SO ORDAIDED.
PASSED AND APPROVED, This E3 ` ♦ day of March, 1951.
MAYOR of me City of Corpus -Ls i
I-Dy be cre ary
APPROVED AS TO GAL FORK:
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Corpus Christi, Texas
WV,&A , 1950
TO THE MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL r
Corpus Christi, Taxes
Gentlemens
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 pass this ordinance finally on the date it is
introduced, or at the present meeting of the City Council.
Respectfully,
Sf
MAYOR
City of Corpus Christi, Texas
The Charter rule was suspended by the following votes
Leslie Wasserman
Jack DeForreat
w, Barney Cott
Sydney E. Herndon `•'���_
George L. Lowman
The above ordinance was passed by the following votes
Leslie Wasserman
Jack DeForrest ��„•
Barney Cott
Sydney E. Herndon Rik
George L. Lowman