HomeMy WebLinkAbout03764 ORD - 06/02/1954AN ORDINANCE
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 1691 PASSED BY
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI ON
JUNE 27, 1944 AND RECORDED IN VOLUME 14, PAGE 1,
OF THE ORDINANCE RECORDS OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI,
THE CAPTION OF WHICH READS: "REGULATING AND LICENSING
"DRIVERLESS AUTMOBILES "; DEFINING CERTAIN TERMS;
PROVIDING FOR PUBLIC LIADILITY INSURANCE POLICIES OR
DEPOSIT OF CASH OR SECURITIES; PROVIDING PENALTIES;
PROVIDING METHOD OF PROSECUTING INDIVIDUALS AND
OTHERS FOR VIOLATING THIS ORDINANCE; REPEALING ALL
ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT HEREEWITH; CONTAINING A SAV-
PIG CLAUSE; AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY." BY REPEAL-
ING SECTION 9 OF SAID ORDINANCE AND PRESCRIBING A
CITY PERMIT FEE FOR THE OPERATION OF DRIVERLESS AUTO -
PdOB LES IN THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI,
TEXAS:
SECTION 1. That Ordinance No. 1691, passed by the City Council
of the City of Corpus Christi on June 27, 1944 and recorded in Volume 14, Page 1,
of the Ordinance Records of the City of Corpus Christi, the caption of which
reads as follows: "Regulating and Licensing 'Driverless Automobiles'; Defin-
ing certain terms; Providing for Public Liability Insurance Policies or Deposit
of cash or securities; providing penalties; providing method of prosecuting
individuals and others for violating this Ordinance; repealing all ordinances
in conflict herewith; containing a saving clause; and declaring an emergency ",
is hereby amended as follows:
SECTION 2. Section 9 of such Ordinance is hereby repealed in its
entirety and shall hereafter read as follows:
Section 9. City Permit Fee.
(a) There is hereby imposed by the City of
Corpus Christi a City Permit Fee for the operation
of all Driverless Automobile franchises. Such City
Permit Fee shall consist of one per cent (1 %) of
the Total Annual Gross Receipts of such "Driverless
Automobile" businesses, and shall be paid as herein-
after provided.
(b) Not later than the 10th of each month a
monthly report of Total Gross Receipts of such
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"Driverless Automobile" business during the
prior month shall be submitted to the Assessor
and Collector of Taxes of the City of Corpus
Christi on a form to be prescribed by the
Comptroller of such City. Such report shall
be accompanied by check made in amount to
cover the City Permit Fee of such report.
SECTION 3. That Section 10 of said Ordinance No. 1691 entitled
"Public Liability Insurance ", Subsection (a) and Subsection (b) is hereby
amended to read as follows, to -wit:
Section 10, Public Liability Insurance•
(a) Before any license shall be issued to any owner or
operator of a "driverless automobile ", hereinabove defined,
or before renewal of any license, the owner or operator shall
be required to file with the City Secretary of the City of
Corpus Christi, and thereafter keep in full force and effect,
a policy of public liability insurance, which said policy must
meet the approval of the City Secretary and City Attorney as
being adequate and sufficient to protect the public within the
intent and purpose of this Ordinance, in a company to be author-
ized to do business in the State of Texas, and performable in
Nueces County, Texas, insuring the public against any loss or
damage that may result to any person or property from the
operation of such vehicle or vehicles, with unsafe brakes or
otherwise defective, or negligence'of the owner or any person
driving such vehicle, and such policy shall provide a maximum
amount of recovery in such policy as to each and every vehicle
to be not less than Ten Thousand Dollars (:10,000) for injury
or death of any one person and not less than Twenty Thousand
Dollars (4i20,000) in any one accident; and not less than Five
Thousand Dollars ($5,000) for the injury to or destruction of
property in any one accident.
(b) Provided, however, that such owner or operator of
such "driverless automobile" may, in lieu of the aforesaid policy
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of liability insurance, make a cash deposit or place as
collateral security with the City Secretary of the City
of Corpus Christi, Texas, United States Government Bonds,
United States Treasury Certificates, or bonds issued by
the State of Texas, County of Nueces, City of Corpus
Christi, or Corpus Christi Independent School District;
and the amount of said cash or securities shall be where
such person, firm, corporation, association, partnership
or society owns and offers for hire any number of such
"driverless automobiles" such cash or securities in the
sum of Twenty Thousand Dollars (:$20,000).
Upon deposit of such cash or securities, the City
Secretary of the City of Corpus Christi shall issue a
receipt, copy of which shall be furnished to depositor
and another to the "Inspector of Taxicabs ".
That said cash and /or securities depositied with
said City Secretary in lieu of the aforesaid policy of
liability insurance shall stand and be liable for the
amount of recovery on any vehicle being owned or operated
with defective brakes or other defective equipment as a
"driverless automobile" and hired or leased, or offered
for hire or lease, by said depositor; such liability shall
be in amounts of not more than the following sums, to -wit:
For injury to or death of any one or more persons
in any one accident, Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000).
For injury to or death of more than one person in
any one accident, Twenty Thousand Dollars ($20,000).
For injury or destruction of property in any one
accident, Five Thousand Dollars (55,000).
The above- described public liability insurance, or
the cash and /or securites in lieu thereof, shall be for
the protection of all members of the public, save and ex-
cept servants, agents or employees of the person so filing or
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depositing the same, as to the negligent acts of any
owner, operator or driver.
SECTION 4. This ordinance shall take effect from and after its
publication one time in the official publication of the City of Corpus Christi,
which publication shall contain the caption stating in summary the purpose of
the ordinance and the penalty for violation thereof.
SECTION 5, If any section, or provision of any section of this
ordinance shall be declared to be void, ineffective, or unconstitutional, the
holding of such section, or provision of any section, to be void, ineffective,
or unconstitutional for any cause whatsoever shall not affect the validity of
the remaining sections and provisions of this ordinance.
SECTION 6. That the foregoing ordinance was read fo the first
time and passed to its second reading on this the __L7 day of ,
1954, by the following vote:
Mayor Office Vacant
Ellroy icing
Y. C. Callaway
James S. Naismith
W. James Brace
That the foregoing ordinance was read for the econd time and
passed to its third reading on this the day of ,1954, by
the following vote:
Mayor Office Vacant
Ellroy King
Y. C. Gallaway
James S. Naismith
W. James Brace
That the foregoing ordinance was t4 ad for the third time and
passed finally on this the day of i c —: o 1954, by the following
vote:
Mayor Office Vacant
Ellroy King
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P. C. Callaway J '
James S. Naismith
W. James Brace
MAYOR PRO TEN
THE CITY aF CORPUS CUR I, TEXAS
ATTEST
City Secretary
APPROM AS TO LEGAL FORM:
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