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AN ORDINANCE
CHANGING THE NAME OF"RABBIT RUN ROO TO
GREENWOOD DRIVE" SAID ROAD BEING IN CORPUS
CHRISTI, NUECES COUNTY, TEXAS; AND DECLARING
AN EMERGENCY.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS
CHRISTI, TEXAS:
SECTION I. THAT THE NAME "RABBIT RUN ROAD" BE CHANGED TO
"GREENWOOD DRIVE", FOR THE ENTIRE LENGTH OF SAID ROAD OR STREET, AS i
CONCURRED IN BY THE COUNTY OF NUECES, SAID ROAD BEING PARTLY IN THE
CITY LIMITS OF CORPUS CHRISTI AND PARTLY OUTSIDE THE CITY LIMITS IN
NUECES COUNTY, TEXAS.
SECTION 2. THAT THE DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS BE AND HE IS
HEREBY AUTHORIZED AND DIRECTED TO REMOVE OR CAUSE TO BE REMOVED ANY
STREET SIGNS OR MARKERS WHICH DO NOT CORRECTLY SHOW THE 14AME OF SAID
STREET AND ROAD AS BEING "GREENWOOD DRIVE", AFTER THE PASSAGE OF THIS
ORDINANCE, AND TO ERECT NEW STREET SIGNS OR MARKERS AT APPROPRIATE
PLACES DESIGNATING THE CORRECT NAME OF THE ABOVE MENTIONED STREET AS
HEREIN PROVIDED.
SECTION 3. THE FACT THAT THE CHANGE OF NAME AS ABOVE SET
FORTH SHOULD BE DESIGNATED BY APPROPRIATE MARKERS AND SUCH DESIGNA-
TION SHOULD BE MADE AS PROMPTLY AS POSSIBLE 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 SAID ORDINANCE SHALL BE READ AT
THREE SEVERAL MEETINGS OF THE CITY COUNCILS AND THE MAYOR, HAVING
DECLARED SUCH EMERGENCY AND IMPERATIVE PUBLIC 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
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THIS ORDINANCE TAKE EFFECT AND BE IN FULL FORCE AND EFFECT FROM AND
AFTER ITS PASSAGES IT IS ACCORDINGLY PASSED AND APPROVED, THIS THE bf
DAY OF MARCH 1959•
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0 } MAYOR '
/ 1 THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI TEXAS
CITY SECRET/RY L
APPROVED AS TO LEGAL FORM THIS
THE 17TH DAY OF MARCH, 1959:
C I TY 'ATT(SRN EY
CORPUS CHRISTI,TEXAS
�, 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 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 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 FOLLOWING VOTE:
FARRELL D. SMITH
W. J. ROBERTS
B. E. BIGLER
MANUEL P. MALDONADO
CHARLIE J. AILLS
ARTHUR R. JAMES
ODELL INGLE
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