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AN ORDINANCE—
PROHIBITING THE POSSESSION, USE, OR CONSUMPTION OF
ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES ON OR WITHIN THE PUBLIC SCHOOL
PROPERTY WITHIN THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI; PRESCRIBING
A PENALTY; PROVIDING FOR PUBLICATION; AND DECLARING
AN EMERGENCY.
BE IT ORDA114ED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS:
SECTION 1. IT SHALL HEREAFTER BE UNLAWFUL FOR A14Y PERSON OR PER-
SONS TO POSSESS: USE, OR CONSUME ANY ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE ON OR WITHIN ANY
PUBLIC SCHOOL PROPERTY SITUATED WITHIN THE CITY LIMITS OF THE CITY OF CORPUS
CHRISTI, TEXAS.
SECTION 2. THE TERM "ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE” AS USED HEREIN HAS THE
MEANING SET FORTH IN SUBSECTION (1) OF SECTION 3 (A) OF ARTICLE 666 OF THE
PE14AL CODE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE "TEXAS LIQUOR CON-
TROL ACT ".
SECTION 3. THE TERM "PUBLIC SCHOOL PROPERTY" SHALL MEAN ANY AND
ALL PROPERTY SITUATED WITHIN THE CITY LIMITS OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI
NOW OR HEREAFTER OWNED BY THE CORPUS CHRISTI INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT OR
ANY SUCCESSOR TO SAID SCHOOL DISTRICT.
SECTION 4. ANY PERSON FOUND GUILTY OF VIOLATING THE TERNS OF THIS
ORDINANCE SHALL BE FIRED A SUM NOT EXCEEDING TWO HUNDRED DOLLARD (�200.00),
AND EACH AND EVERY VIOLATION SHALL CONSTITUTE A SEPARATE OFFENSE.
SECTION 5. THIS ORD114ANCE SHALL TAKE EFFECT FROM AND AFTER ITS
PUBLICATION ONE TIME IN THE OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THECITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI,
WHICH PUBLICATION SHALL CONTAIN THE CAPTION STATING IN SUMMARY THE PURPOSE OF
THE ORDINANCE AIID THE PE14ALTY FOR VIOLATION THEREOF.
SECTION 6. THE FACT THAT THE POSSESSION OF ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES
ON PUBLIC SCHOOL PROPERTY WITHIN THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI NOW PRESENTS A
GRAVE PERIL TO THE 140RALS OF THE CHILDREN OF PUBLIC SCHOOL AGE RESIDING IN
THIS CITY CREATES A PUBLIC EMERGENCY AND All IMPERATIVE NECESSITY REQUIRING
THE SUSPENSION OF THE CHARTER RULE THAT NO ORDINANCE OR RESOLUTION BE PASSED
FINALLY ON THE DATE IT IS INTRODUCED, AI4D THAT SUCH ORDINANCE OR RESOLUTION
SHALL BE READ AT THREE MEETINGS OF THE CITY COUNCILS AND THE MAYORS HAVING
DECLARED THAT SUCH PUBLIC EMERGENCY AND IMPERATIVE NECESSITY EXIST AND HAVING
REQUESTED THAT SAID CHARTER RULE BE SUSPENDED AND THAT THIS ORDINANCE BE PASSED
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FINALLY ON THE DATE OF ITS INTRODUCTION, AND THAT IT TAKE EFFECT AND BE IN
FULL FORCE AND EFFECT FROM AND AFTER ITS PASSAGE, IT IS ACCORDINGLY SO
ORDAINED.
PASSED AND APPROVED, THIS THE DAY OF DECEMBER, 1954.
MAYOR
THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS
ATTEST; /
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CITY ATTORNEY
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1954
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TO THE XWERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL
Corpus Christi, Texas
Gentlemen: -
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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 ordinenck or resolution shall
be passed finally on the date it is introduced, and that 4=h 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 introduce}, or at the present meeting
of the City Council.
t
Respeotful].yb
MAYOR
• CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI,
` The Charter Rule was suspended by the following vote:
F P. C. Callaway
:
&llroy King
r James S. Baismith
W. James Brace
F. P. Peterson, Jr.
• The above ordinance was passed by the following -smte: •
P. C. Callaway
SLlrcy.Sing,
James S....Halemith
W. James Brace
F. P. Peterson, Jr.