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HomeMy WebLinkAbout05253 ORD - 01/28/1959• IMS:JKH71 -28 -59 a f � AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 24 -39 OF THE CORPUS CHRISTI CITY CODE 19 BY DELETING THE REFERENCE TO SECTIONS 24-3, 24 -17, 'AND 24 -19 AND DELETING THE REQUIREMENT OF A MINIMUM OF 1,000 FEET SURFACE CASING; AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS: SECTION 1. SECTION 24 -39 OF THE CORPUS CHRISTI CITY CODE, 1958, IS HEREBY AMENDED BY STRIKING OUT IN THE FIRST PARAGRAPH THEREOF THE WORDS, "SECTIONS 24 -3, 24 -17, AND 24-19" AND INSERTING THE WORDS, "THIS CHAPTER OF THIS CODE MAY BE VARIED TO THE EXTENT NECESSARY TO PERMIT THE APPLICANT TO DRILL, PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT SUCH VARIATION SHALL NOT VARY THE PROVI- 1 SIONS PROVIDED IN THIS CHAPTER SO AS TO WITHDRAW THE PROTECTION OF THE SAFETY, HEALTH AND WELFARE OF THE PUBLIC HEREIN PROVIDED; AND FURTHER PROVIDED THAT NO VARIATION OF THE REQUIREMENTS OF SECTION 24 -3 SHALL PER- MIT DRILLING WITHOUT MAKING THE REQUIREMENTS OF SUB — SECTION (A) BELOW, AND NO VARIATION OF THE REQUIREMENTS OF SECTION 24 -17 SHALL BE VARIED EXCEPT BY SUBSTITUTING THE REQUIREMENTS OF SUB— SECTION (B) BELOW, AND NO VARIATION SHALL BE MADE OF THE REQUIREMENTS OF SECTION 24 -19 UNLESS THE REQUIREMENTS OF SUB — SECTION (C) BELOW, BE PROVIDED." SECTION 2. THAT SUB — SECTION (C) OF SECTION 24 -39 OF THE CORPUS CHRISTI CITY CODE, 19581 IS HEREBY AMENDED BY DELETING IN SAID SUBSEC- TION (C� AT THE END OF THE FIRST SENTENCE, THE WORDS, "OF 1,000 FEET" AND IN LIEU THEREOF SUBSTITUTING THE WORDS, AS MAY BE DETERMINED BY THE COUNCIL". SECTION 3. PUBLICATION SHALL BE MADE IN THE OFFICIAL PUBLICA- TION OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, ONE TIME, WHICH PUBLICATION SHALL CONTAIN THE CAPTION STATING IN SUBSTANCE THE PURPOSE OF THE ORDINANCE AND RECITING THAT THE PENALTY FOR VIOLATION OF THE ORDINANCE AS AMENDED SHALL BE A FINE OF NOT EXCEEDING TWO HUNDRED DOLLARS ($200.00). x SECTION 4. THE NECESSITY FOR PROVIDING FOR VARIANCES IN SPECIAL CASES WHERE PROTECTION OF :THE PUBLIC DOES NOT REQUIRE FULL ENFORCEMENT OF THE PROVISIONS OF CHAPTER 24 OF THE CORPUS CHRISTI CITY CODE, 1958, RELATING TO OIL AND GAS WELLS BUT BY THE PERMISSION OF SOME VARIANCE WILL STILL PROTECT THE INTEREST OF THE PUBLIC AND THE SAFETY OF PROPERTY AND PERSONS WITHOUT UNDULY BURDENING THE OPERATION OF DRILLING A WELL FOR OIL OR GAS 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 MAYORS HAVING DE- CLARED SUCH EMERGENCY AND NECESSITY TO EXIST, HAVING REQUESTED THE SUSPENSION OF SAID CHARTER RULE AND THAT THIS ORDINANCE BE PASSED FINALLY ON THE DATE OF ITS INTRODUCTION AND THAT THIS ORDINANCE TAKE EFFECT AND BE IN FULL FORCE AND EFFECT FROM AND AFTER ITS PASSAGE -1,19 IT IS ACCORDINGLY PASSED,AND APPROVED, THIS THE pt DAY OF JANUARY 1959• MAYOR THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS , ATTEST: CITY SECRETARY/ APPROVED AS TO LEGAL FORM THIS THE 28TH DAY OF JANUARY, 1959: A-M. CITY ATTORNEY CORPUS CHRISTIJEXAS 1959 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 SUSPENSION OF THE CHARTER RULE OR REQUIREMENT THAT NO ORDINANCE SHALL BE PASSED FINALLY ON THE DATE IT IS INTRODUCEDI 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 INTRO - DUCED, 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: FARRELL D. SMITH / W. J. ROBERTS B. E. BIGLER / MANUEL P. MALDONADO CHARLIE J. AILLS ARTHUR R. JAMES / ODELL INGLE / THE ABOVE ORDINANCE WAS PASSED BY THE FOLLOWIN VOTE: FARRELL D. SMITH W. J. ROBERTS / B. E. BIGLER MANUEL P. MALDONADO CHARLIE J. AILLS ARTHUR R. JAMES ODELL INGLE /