HomeMy WebLinkAbout03253 ORD - 04/15/1952AN ORDINANCE
ANENDING,ORDINANCE NO. 22$1 PASSED AND APPROVED BY THE
CITY COUNCIL ON THE 16TH DAY OF MARCH, 1948, AS RECORDED
IN VOL. 16, PAGES 197 ET SEQ OF THE ORDINANCE AND RESOLU-
TION RECORDS OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, ENTITLED
- "REGULATING TRAFFIC UPON THE PUBLIC STREETS, ALLEYS AND
OTHER THOROUGHFARES IN THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS,
AND FIXING PENALTY FOR VIOLATIONS AND REPEALING ALL OTHER
ORDINANCES AND SECTIONS OF ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT HERE-
WITH", AS THEREAFTER AMENDED AND IN PARTICULAR AS AMENDED
BY ORDINANCE NO. 2515, BY AMENDING SECTION 141 (A) TO
PROVIDE FOR ONE WAY TRAFFICE (TRAFFI.0 TO FLOW IN A
WESTERLY DIRECTION) ON CARROLL STREET BETWEEN EAST SHORE -
LINE BOULEVARD AND WEST SHORELINE BOULEVARD; PROVIDING
FOR METHOD OF PUBLICATION; AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.
WHEREAS, THE CITY COUNCIL HAS DETERMINED THAT THE TRAFFIC REGULATIONS
HEREINAFTER PROMULGATED ARE REASONABLE AND PRUDENT:
NOW THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS '
CHRISTI, TEXAS:
SECTION 1: THAT ORDINANCE,' NO. 22141, PASSED AND APPROVED BY THE CITY
COUNCIL ON THE 16TH DAY OF MARCH, 1948, AS RECORDED IN- VOLUME 16, PAGES 197 ET
SEQ OF THE ORDINANCE AND RESOLUTION RECORDS OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS,
ENTITLED: "
"REGULATING TRAFFIC UPON THE PIJBLIC STREETS, ALLEYS, AND OTHER
THOROUGHFARES IN THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS, AND FIXING
PENALTY FOR VIOLATIONS AND REPEALING ALL OTHER ORDINANCES AND
SECTIONS O1F1 ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT HEREWITH"
BY AMENDING SECTION 1Y1,(A) THEREOF AS HEREINAFTER PROVIDED IN SECTION 2.
SECTION 2: 1T�HAT SAID ORDINANCE NO. 2241, BE, AND IT IS HEREBY AMENDED,
BY ADDING TO SECTION 141 (A) THEREOF THE FOLLOWING STREET FOR DESIGNATION AS A ONE-
WAY STREET AND INDICATING THE DIRECTION OF MOVEMENT OF TRAFFIC THEREON:
"CARROLL STREET BETWEEN EAST SHORELINE BOULEVARD AND
WEST SHORELINE BOULEVARD .......... WEST ".
SECTION 3: THIS ORDINANCE SHALL TAKE EFFECT FROM AND AFTER ITS PUBLICATION
ONETIME IN THE OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, WHICH PUBLICATION
SHALL BE SUFFICIENT IF IT CONTAIN THE CAPTION AND TITLE HEREOF, AND STATE IN SUMMARY
THE PURPOSE OF THE ORDINANCE AND THE PENALTY FOR VIOLATION THEREOF.
SECTION 14: THE FACT THAT IT IS IMPERATIVE AND NECESSARY TO THE PUBLIC
SAFETY AND GENERAL WELFARE TO MAINTAIN RULES AND REGULATIONS GOVERNING TRAFFIC UPON
THE PUBLIC STREETS AND THOROUGHFARES OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, AND IN PARTICULAR
TO REGULATE THE DIRECTION OF TRAFFIC MOVEMENT ON THE STREET AND AREA HEREIN DESIGNATED
CREATES A PUBLIC EMERGENCY AND AN IMPERATIVE PUBLIC NECESSITY REQUIRING THE SUSPENSION
OF THE CHARTER RULE PROVIDING THAT NO ORDINANCE OR RESOLUTION SHALL 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, DECLARING SUCH EMERGENCY
AND NECESSITY TO EXIST, HAVING REQUESTED THE SUSPENSION OF SAID CHARTER RULE
AND THAT THIS ORDINANCE BE PASS M FINALLY ON THE DATE OF ITS INTRODUCTION AND
TAKE EFFECT AND BE IN FULL FORCE AND EFFECT FROM AND AFTER ITS PUBLICATION
AS HEREIN PROVIDED, IT IS ACCORDINGLY SO ORDAINED.
PASSED AND APPROVED, THIS THE �d Up OF APRIL, A. D. 1952•
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CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS
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CITY SECRETARY
APP OVED AS T ,LEGAL FORM:
CITY ATT•RNEY
Corpus Christi, Texas
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TO THE 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,
Respectf lly,
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
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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