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AN ORDINANCE
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AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 4288 AND CORRESPONDING
SECTION IN THE CODE OF CORPUS CHRISTI, 195 a
TO THE EFFECT THAT THE PRORATA FRONT FOOT CHARGE
SHALL BE AT THE RATE OF TWO DOLLARS 2.00 PER
FRONT FOOT OF THE LOT OR TRACT OF LAND INSTEAD
OF THE FORMER RATE OF ONE AND 50100 DOLLARS
($1.50) PER FRONT FOOT WHERE PROPERTY ON TWO
SIDES OF THE LINE WERE SERVED AND THREE DOLLARS
($3.00) PER FRONT FOOT WHERE ONLY PROPERTY-ON
ONE SIDE WAS SERVED; AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.
WHEREAS, THE PRESENT RATE OF ONE AND 50100 DOLLARS ($1.50)
PER FRONT FOOT CHARGED FOR EXTENSION OF SEWER LINES WHERE PROPERTY ON
BOTH SIDES OF THE LINE WILL BE SERVED BY THE LINE, AND THE CHARGE OF
THREE DOLLARS ($3.00) PER FRONT FOOT WHERE ONLY PROPERTY ON ONE SIDE
WILL BE SERVED HAVE PROVEN INEQUITABLE AND UNECONOMICAL FROM THE STAND-
POINT OF THE CITY,AND IT HAS BEEN DETERMINED THAT A UNIFORM CHARGE PER
FRONT FOOT OF TWO DOLLARS ($2.00) WOULD BE MORE EQUITABLE AND ECONOMI-
CAL TO BOTH THE CITY AND THE PROPERTY OWNER:
N111, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS:
SECTION 1. THAT ORDINANCE NO. 4288 AND CORRESPONDING SECTION
OF THE CODE OF CORPUS CHRISTI, 1958, BE AND THE SAME ARE HEREBY AMENDED
AS FOLLOWS:
THE PRORATA FRONT FOOT CHARGE FOR EXTENSIONS AS STATED
IN THE FIRST PARAGRAPH OF SECTION 1 OF THE SAID ORDINANCE
N0. 4288 AND THE FIRST PARAGRAPH OF SAID SECTION 38 -54 OF
THE CODE OF CORPUS CHRISTI, 1958, SO AS TO HEREAFTER PROVIDE
A CHARGEOF TWO DOLLARS ($2.00) PER FRONT FOOT OF THE LOT OR
TRACT OF LAND TO WHICH SANITARY SEWER CONNECTIONS MAY BE
MADE.
SECTION 2. PARAGRAPH 6 OF SECTION 1 OF ORDINANCE ND. 4288
AND CORRESPONDING SECTION 38 -54 OF THE CODE OF CORPUS CHRISTI, 1958,
READING, "WHERE THE EXTENSION OF THE LATERAL LINE WILL SERVE PROPERTY
ONLY ON ONE SIDE, THEN THE PRORATA COST WILL BE DOUBLE THAT FOR ABUT-
TING PROPERTY," IS HEREBY REPEALED.
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SECTION 3. THE FIRST SENTENCE IN THE FOURTH PARAGRAPH OF
SECTION 2 OF ORDINANCE NO. 4288 AND THE CORRESPONDING DIVISION APPEARING
AS THE ELEVENTH PARAGRAPH OF SECTION 38 -54 OF THE CODE OF CORPUS CHRISTI,
195% IS .HEREBY AMENDED BY DELETING THE WORDS, NONE DOLLAR AND 50/100
($1.50) PER FRONT FOOT FORS" AND IN LIEU THEREOF THERE IS HEREBY SUBSTI-
TUTED THE WORDS "THE CHARGES APPLICABLE TOE" AND SAID SUBSTITUTION
WILL HEREBY BE ADOPTED AS THOUGH ORIGINALLY PART OF SAID SENTENCE OF
SAID PARAGRAPH.
SECTION 5. ALL OTHER PROVISIONS OF SECTIONS 1 AND Z OF SAID
ORDINANCE N0. 4288 AND CORRESPONDING SECTION 38 -54 OF THE CODE OF
CORPUS CHRISTI, 1958, ARE HEREBY CONTINUED IN FULL FORCE AND EFFECT.
SECTION 5. THE IMMEDIATE AMENDMENT OF THE PROVISIONS HEREIN
AMENDED SO AS TO MAKE THE CHARGES PROVIDED MORE EQUITABLE AND ECONOMICAL
CREATES A PUBLIC EMERGENCY AND PUBLIC IMPERATIVE NECESSITY REQUIRING THE
SUSPENSION OF THE CHARTER RULE :_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 SEVERAL MEETINGS OF THE CITY COUNCIL,
AND THE MAYOR HAVING DECLARED THAT SUCH PUBLIC EMERGENCY AND IMPERATIVE
NECESSITY EXIST, AND HAVING REQUESTED THAT SUCH CHARTER RULE BE SUSPENDED,
AND THAT THIS ORDINANCE BE PASSED FINALLY ON THE DATE OF ITS INTRODUCTION
AND TAKE EFFECT AND BE IN FULL FORCE AND EFFECT FROM AND AFTER ITS PAS-
SAGE IT IS ACCORDINGLY SO ORDAINED.
PASSED AND APPROVED THIS THE d.Z, DAY OF OCTOBERS 1958.
MAYOR
CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS
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`-APPROVED AS TO LEGAL FORM THIS
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CITY ATTORNEY �%
CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS
1958
TO THE MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL
CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS
GENTLEMEN:
FOR THE REASONS SET FORTH IN THE EMERGENCY CLAUSE OF THE FORE-
GOING ORDINANCE, A PUBLIC EMERGENCY AND IMPERATIVE NECESSITY EXIST FOR THE
SUSPENSION 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, THERE-
FORE, HEREBY REQUEST THAT YOU SUSPEND SAID CHARTER RULE OR REQUIREMENT AND PASS
THIS ORDINANCE FINALLY ON THE DATE IT 15 INTRODUCED, OR AT THE PRESENT MEETING
OF THE CITY COUNCIL.
Respectfully,
MAYOR
THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS,
The Charter rule was suspended by the following vote:
y Farrell D. Smith,
W. J. Roberts �us
B. E. Bigler
Manuel P. Maldonado ✓
Charlie J. Aills ✓ J
Arthur R. James
Odell Ingle
The above ordinance was passed by the following vote:
Farrell D. Smith
W. J. Roberts
B. E. Bigler
Manuel P. Maldonado (-- -V7` --
Charlie J. Aills ✓_—
Arthur R. James
Odell Ingle }
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