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AN ORDINANCE
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CHANGING THE NAME OF COOPERS ALLEY, FROM
BROADWAY TO EAST SHORELINE, TO COOPERS STREET,
AS THE ORIGINAL ALLEY HAS ASSUMED THE
CHARACTERISTICS OF A BUSINESS THOROUGHFARE AND
IS MISLEADING AND CONFUSING TO THE PUBLIC, AND
DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.
WHEREAS, COOPERS ALLEY HAS ASSUMED THE CHARACTERISTICS OF A
BUSINESS THOROUGHFARE AND IS MISLEADING AND CONFUSING TO THE PUBLIC; AND
WHEREAS, THE NAME OF COOPERS ALLEY, AS NOW EXISTING, IS UNSUITED
TO THE STREET SO NAMED;
NOW THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS:
SECTION 1: THAT THE NAME OF THE STREET EXTENDING FROM BROADWAY
TO EAST SHORELINE AND NOWDESIGNATED AS COOPERS ALLEY, BE AND IT IS HEREBY
CHANGED TO COOPERS STREET.
SECTION 2: THAT THE DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS BE AND HE IS HEREBY
AUTHORIZED AND DIRECTED TO CAUSE TO BE REMOVED FROM SAID STREET ANY MARKERS
CARRYING OTHER DESIGNATIONS THAN THE NAME COOPERS STREET, AND TO CAUSE TO
BE INSTALLED ALONG SUCH STREET AT APPROPRIATE PLACES MARKERS CARRYING THE
WORDS "COOPERS STREET".
SECTION 3: THE FACT THAT THE CHANGE OF NAMES FROM COOPERS ALLEY
TO COOPERS STREET TO PROPERLY DESIGNATE SUCH BUSINESS THOROUGHFARE CREATES
A PUBLIC EMERGENCY AND AN IMPERATIVE PUBLIC NECESSITY REQUIRING THE SUSPENSION
OF THE CHARTER RULE, THAT NO ORDINANCE OR RESOLUTION SHALL BE PASSED FINALLY ON
THE DATE OF ITS INTRODUCTION, AND THAT SAID ORDINANCE OR RESOLUTION SHALL BE
READ AT THREE SEVERAL MEETINGS OF THE CITY COUNCIL, AND THE MAYOR HAVING DECLARED
SUCH EMERGENCY AND IMPERATIVE PUBLIC NECESSITY TO EXIST, AND HAVING REQUESTED
THAT SAID CHARTER RULE BE SUSPENDED, AND THAT THIS ORDINANCE BE PASSED FINALLY
ON THE DATE OF ITS INTRODUCTION, AND THAT THIS ORDINANCE TAKE EFFECT AND BE IN
FULL FORCE AND EFFECT FROM AND AFTER ITS PASSAGE, IT IS ACCORDINGLY SO ORDAINED.
PASSED AND APPROVED THIS /j�AY ofi/1.r /, A. D. 1952.
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MAYOR
CITY SECRETARY CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS
APPLED AS TO EGAL FORM:
CITY ATTOR EY
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Corpus Christi, Texas
TO TUE MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL
Corpus Christi, Texas
Gentlemen:
For the reasons set forth in the emergency clause of the foregoing
ordinance, a public emergency and imperative necessity exist for the suspen-
sion 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,
MAYOR
City of Corpus Christi, Texas
The Charter rule was suspended by the following vote:
Leslie Wasserman _
Jack DeForrest
Sydney E. Herndon
George L. Lowman 64e --
Frank E. Williamson
The above ordinance was passed by the following vote:
Leslie Wasserman
Jack DeForrest^
Sydney E. Herndon
George L. Lowman
Frank E. Williamson
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