HomeMy WebLinkAbout03004 RES - 03/27/1951A RESOLUTION "
URGING THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE
STATE OF TEYAS TO REFRAIN FROM ADOPTING SENATE HILL 270
OR HORSE 8111 354, IDENTICAL HILTS, AND EYPR835 m oPPosl- ,
TION TO SUCH LEGISLATION; AND DECLARING AN EHERCd3NCY.
WHEREAS, There is now pending in the Legislature of Texas,
House Bill 354 and Senate Bill 270, identical bills, intm duced by Representative
Frank Owen of El Paso County and by Senator Jimmy Phillips of Angleton, re-
spectively, which bills in substance regulate the power of annexation, pre-
scribe preliminary conditions to the exercise of the right of annexation by
home rule cities, repealing the right of home rule cities to prescribe and
regulate their own manner of annexation by their own charter provisions, re-
quiring the existence of certain indefinite conditions in order to effect
annexation; requiring the extension of services and facilities supplied by
the cities to the annexed area within one (1) year neat following the date
of annexation, providing for contest of annexation proceedings within four (4)
years following the date of annexation, end repealing certain statutes; and
WHEREAS, It is considered that the matter of annexation by
home rule cities is properly a matter to be provided by the respective cities
in their own charters as provided in the home rule amendment to the Constitution
of the State of Texan; and that the matter of the consideration of the con-
ditions existing having bearing upon the advisability of the annexing of
territory is a matter which is properly left to individual cities to be de-
termined in the method provided by their charters; and that the question of
extension of services and facilities supplied by the cities is a matter proper-
ly within the discretion of the city councils; and that the provisions per-
mitting contest of annexation by individual property owners would stimulate
litigation, and leave the validity of annexation in doubt for such an ex-
tenaive length of time as to make it impractical for cities to annex terri-
tory and impossible to determine actual taxable values for bond purposes for
so long a period of time that the power of annexation will be in effect pro-
hibited:
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE C1TY
CF CORPUS CHRISTI, MM%St
SECTION 1. That the respective members of the House of Representatives
and the Senate of Texas be urged to reject House Bill 354 and Senate Hill 270
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and that a copy of this resolution be forsaxded to the respective members
of the legislators including the respective representative and senator for
this district advising them of the opposition of this Council as the govern-
ing body of the City of Corpus Christi to such proposed legislation, and
urging their vote against and active opposition to said bills.
SECTION 2. That the necessity for immediately informing the
Legislature of the State of Texas of the attitude of the City of Corpus
Christi regarding the aforesaid legislation creates an emergency and an
imperative public necessity requiring the suspension of the Charter rule
that no ordinance or resolution aball be passed finally on the date of
its introduction and that such ordinance or resolution shall be read at
three several meetings of the City Council, and the Mayor, having declared
such emergency and necessity to exist, having requested the suspension of
said Charter rule and that this resolution be passed finally on the date
of its introduction and that it take effect and be in full force and offset
from and after the date of its pasaaget' IT 19 ACCORMMY SO RESOLVED.
PASSED AND APPROVED, This the,-L. day of March, A.D. 19$1.
MAYOR
CITY OF CORPUS CMMTI, TEXAS -
(ATqEST:
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Corpus Christi, Tema
J-71 , 1950
TO THE HERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL
Corpus Christi, Tema
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 shell 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,
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h1AY0R
City of Corpus Christi, Texas
The Charter rule was suspended by the following vote,
Leslie Wasserman
Jack DeForrest °
Barney Cott
Sydney E. Herndonn
Vd-
George L. Lowman rte'
The above ordinance was passed by the following vote.
Leslie Wasserman /J
Jack lleFOrreet "lJi�
Barney Cott
Sydney E. Herndon
George L. Lowman Q�
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