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AN ORDINANCE�"�`
MAKING UNLAWFUL THE FAJUURE TO APPEAR IN
CORPORATION COURT IN CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS
IN ACCORDANCE WITH AGREEMENT TO APPEAR;
PROVIDING A PENALTY; AND DECLARING AN
EMERGENCY.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS,
CHRISTI, TEXAS:
SECTION 1. IT SHALL BE UNLAWFUL FOR ANY PERSON WHO, HAVING
BEEN NAMED IN A COMPLAINT ON FILE IN THE CORPORATION COURT OF THE CITY
OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS, AND, WHO HAS SIGNED AN AGREEMENT TO APPEAR
IN SAID CORPORATION COURT AND ANSWER'SUCH COMPLAINT, TO FAIL TO APPEAR
IN SAID CORPORATION COURT AT THE TIME INDICATED IN SUCH AGREEMENT TO
APPEAR.
SECTION P. EVERY PERSON CONVICTED OF A VIOLATION Of THIS
ORDINANCE SHALL BE PUNISHED BY A FINE OF NOT LESS THAN ONE ($1) DOLLAR
AND NO MORE THAN TWO HUNDRED ($POO) DOLLARS.
SECTION 3. THE FAILURE OF PERSONS SIGNING POLICE SUMMONS TO
APPEAR IN THE CORPORATION COURT OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI BEING CON-
' TRARY TO PUBLIC WELFARE, THE IMMEDIATE NECESSITY OF PROVIDING THE FORE-
GOING-MEASURE TO ALLEVIATE ADMINISTRATIVE DIFFICULTIES CAUSED BY REASON
OF SUCH FAILURES 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 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
c RULE AND THAT THIS ORDINANCE BE PASSED FINALLY ON THE DATE OF ITS INTRO-
DUCTION AND THAT IT TAKE EFFECT AND BE IN FULL FORCE AND EFFECT FROM AND
AFTER ITS PASSAGE, IT IS ACCORDINGLY PASSED AND APPROVED, THIS THE !
DAY OF D. 1955,/
ST: MAYOR
CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI
CITY SECRETARY
APPR ED AST LEGAL FORM:
C'TY•ATT RN EY � � __
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,
Respectfully,
MAYOR
City of Corpus Christi, Texas
The Charter rule was suspended by the following vote:
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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 L -//Ga ►�
Frank E. Williamson
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