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AN ORDINANCE
PRESCRIBING THE TAXES TO BE LEVIED, ASSESSED AND COLLECTED
BY THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS, FOR THE YEAR 1959
AND FOR-EACH SUCCEEDING YEAR THEREAFTER UNTIL OTHERWISE
PROVIDED AND ORDAINED; AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OY THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI,
TEXAS:
SECTION 1. That there is hereby levied, to be assessed and collected
in current money of the United States of America, for the use of the City of
Corpus Christi, Texas, for the Year 1959, and for each succeeding year thereafter,
until otherwise provided and ordained, an annual direct ad valorem tax of Seventy -
two and three - tenths cents ($0.723) on each One Hundred Dollars ($100) value
thereof, on all property, real, personal, and mixed, located within the said
City of Corpus Christi, upon which a tax is authorized to be levied by law, and
upon all franchises of all individuals', partners, and corporations holding
franchises in the City from said City of Corpus Christi, Texas, said tax to be
appropriated to the payment and defrayment of current expenses of the Government
of said City.
SECTION 2. That there is hereby levied to be assessed and collected
in current money of the United States of America, for the use of the City of
Corpus Christi, for the Year 1959, and for each succeeding year thereafter until
otherwise provided and ordained, an annual direct ad valorem tax of $0.250 on
each One Hundred Dollars ($100) of value thereof, upon all property and franchises
described in Section 1 of this Ordinance, said Tax to be appropriated and used in
making payments for General Street Improvements and building bridges in the City
of Corpus Christi, Texas.
SECTION 3. That for the purpose of paying interest and providing the
necessary sinking funds for the payment of outstanding bonds and bogded indebted-
ness of the-City of Corpus Christi, and for paying interest and making provisions
for the sinking fund of such future issues as may be authorized, there is hereby
levied for the Year 1959, and for each succeeding year thereafter, unless other-
wise provided and ordained, to be assessed and collected in current money of the
United States of America, upon all property and franchises described in Section 1
of this Ordinance, an annual direct ad valorem tax of $0.557 on each One Hundred
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Dollars ($100) of value thereof, which said taxes as and when the same shall'be
collected, shall be appropriated and credited to the following bond interest and
sinking hinds of the City of Corpus Christi, Texas:
(1) Out of the amount of $0.557 there is-hereby appropriated
$0.0015 for the purpose of paying interest and creating
the,necessary sinking fund to pay,Water District Bonds,
Series 1929, dated April 10, 1929;
(2) Out of said amount of $0.557 there is hereby appropriated
$0.0502 for the purpose of paying interest and creating
the necessary sinking fund to pay Refunding Bonds, Series
1936, dated February 1, 1936;
(3) Out of the amount of $0.557 there is hereby appropriated
$0.0009 for the purpose of paying interest and creating
the necessary sinking fund to pay Street Improvement Bonds,
Series 1940, dated June 1, 1940;
(4) Out of said amount of $0.557 there is hereby appropriated
$0.0035 for the purpose of paying interest and creating the
necessary sinking fund to pay Sanitary Sewer Improvement
and Extension Bonds, Series 1940, dated June 1, 1940;
(5) Out of the amount of $0.557 thereis hereby appropriated
$0.0012 for the purpose of paying, interest and creating
the necessary sinking fund to pay Fire Station Bonds,
Series 1941, dated December 1, 1941;
(6) Out of said amount of $0.557 there is hereby appropriated
$0.0009 for the purpose of paying interest and creating
the necessary sinking fund to pay Garbage Disposal Plant
Bonds, Series 1941, dated December 1, 1941;
(7) •Out of said amount of $0.557 thereis hereby appropriated
$0.0065 for the purpose of paying interest and creating
the necessary sinking fund to pay Hospital Bonds; Series
1941, dated December 1, 1941;
(8) Out of said amount of $0.557 there is hereby appropriated
$0.0009 for the purpose of paying interest and creating
the necessary sinking fund to pay Park System Improvement
Bonds, Series 1941, dated December 1, 1941;
(9) Out of said amount of $0.557 there is hereby appropriated
$0.0019 for the purpose of paying interest and creating
the necessary sinking fund to pay Sanitary and Storm Water
Sewer Improvement Bonds, Series 1941, dated December 1, 1941;
(10) Out of said amount of $0.557 then is hereby appropriated
$0.0104 for the purpose of paying interest and creating
the necessary sinking fund to pay Street Improvement Bonds,
Series 1941, dated December 1; 1941;
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(11) Out of said amount of $0.557 there is hereby appropriated
$0.0043 for the purpose of paying interest and creating
the necessary sinking fund to pay Waterworks Improvement
Bonds, Series 1941, dated December 1, 1941;
(12) Out of the amount of $0.557 there is hereby appropriated
$0.0025 for the purpose of paying interest and creating
the necessary sinking fund to pay Fire Department Bonds,
Series 1944, dated June 1, 1944;
(13) Out of the amount of $0.557 there is hereby appropriated
$0.0034 for the purpose of paying interest and creating
the necessary sinking fund to pay Gas Distribution
System Extension, Improvement and Rehabilitation Bonds,
Series 1944, dated June 1, 19+4;
(14) Out of the amount of $0.557 there is hereby appropriated
$0.00]2 for the purpose °of paying interest and creating
the necessary sinking fund to pay Airport Improvement Bonds,
Series 1948) dated June 1, 1948;
(15) Out of said amount of $0.557 there is hereby appropriated
$0.0016 for the purpose of paying interest and creating
the necessary sinking fund to pay Park Bonds, Series 1948,
dated June 1, 1948;
(16). Out of the amount of $0.557 there is hereby appropriated
$0:0110 for the purpose of paying interest and creating
the necessary sinking fund to pay Sanitary Sewer improve-
ment Bonds, Series 1948, dated June 1, 1948;
(17) Out of the amount of $0.557 there is hereby appropriated
$6.02230 for the purpose of paying interest and creating
the necessary sinking fund to pay Storm Sewer Bonds, Series
1948, dated June 1, 1948;
(18) Out of the amount of $0.557 there is hereby appropriated
$M065 for the purpose of paying interest and creating
the necessary sinking fund to spay Street Improvement Bonds,
Series 1948: dated June 1, 1948;
(19) Out of said amount of $0.557 there is hereby appropriated
$0.0069 for the purpose of paying interest and creating
the necessary sinking fund to pay City Hall Bonds, Series
1950, dated-January 15, J -950,
(20) Out of said amount of $0.557 there is hereby appropriated
$0.0014 for the purpose of paying interest and creating the
necessary sinking fund to pay Fire Station Bonds, Series
1950, dated January 15,. 1950;
(21) Out of said amount of $0.557 there is hereby appropriated
$0.0012 for the purpose of paying interest and creating
the necessary sinking fund to pay Municipal Auditorium
Bonds, Series 1950, dated January'15, 1950;
(22) Out of said amount of $0.557 there is hereby appropriated
$0.0100 for the purpose of paying interest and creating
the necessary sinking ,fund to pay Municipal Auditorium
Bonds, Series 1950 -A, dated November 1, 1950;
(23) Out of said amount of $0.557 thereis hereby appropriated
$0.0051 for the purpose of paying interest and creating
the necessary sinking fund to pay Police Building'Bonds,
Series 1950, dated January 15, 1950;
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(24) Outof said amount of $0.557 there is hereby appropriated
0.0040 for the purpose of paying interest and creating
the necessary sinking fund to pay Public Idbrary Bonds,
.Series 1950, dated November 1, 1950;
(25) Outof said amount of $0.557 there is hereby appropriated
$0,0013 for the purpose of paying interest and creating
the necessary sinking fund to pay Public Park Bonds, Series
1950, dated January 15, 1950;
(26) Out of said amount of $0.557 there Jr. hereby appropriated
$0.0014 for the purpose of paying interest and creating
the necessary sinking fund to pay Public Park Bonds, Series
1950 »A, dated November 1, 1950;
(27) Out of said amount of $0.557 there is hereby appropriated -
$0.0051 for the purpose of paying interest and creating the
necessary "sinking fund to pay Street Improvement Bonds,
Series 1950, dated January 15, 1950;
(28) Out of said amount of $0.557 there is hereby appropriated
$0.0013 for the purpose of paying interest and creating
the necessary sinking fund to pay Btreet Improvement Bonds,
Series 1950-A, dated November 1, 1950;
(29) Out of said amount of $0.557 there is hereby appropriated
$0.0122 for the purpose of paying interest and creating
the necessary sinking fund to pay Storm Sewer Bonds, Series
1950, dated January 15, 19,503
(30) Out of said amount of $0.557 there is hereby appropriated
$0.0082 for the purpose of• paying interest and creating
the necessary sinking fund to pay,Storm Sewer Bonds, Beries
1950 -A, dated November 1, 1950;
(33) Out of said amount of $0.557 there is hereby appropriated
$0.0014 for the purpose of paying interest and creating the
necessary sinking fund to pay Street Traffic Control System
Bonds, Series 1950, dated January 15, 1950;
(32) Out of said amount of $0.557 there is hereby appropriated
$0,10025 for the purpose of paying interest and creating
the necessary sinkininv Fund to pay Fire Station Bonds, Beries
1 ,951, dated September 1, 1951;
(33) Out of said amount of 0.557 there is hereby appropriated
$0.0045 for the•purpose of paying interest and creating the
necessary sinking fund to pay Airport Improvement Bonds,
Series 1951, dated September 1, 1951;
(34) Out of said amount of $0.557 there is hereby appropriated
$0.0012 for the purpose of paying interest and creating
the necessary sinkinv fund to pay Sanitary Sewer Improvement
Bonds, Series 1951, dated September 1, 1951;
(35) Out of said amount of $0.557 there is hereby appropriated
$0.0017 for the purpose of paying interest and-creating
the necessary sinking fund to pay Storm Sewer Improvement
Bonds, Series 1951, dated September 1, 1951;
(36) Out of said amount of $0.557 there is hereby appropriated
$0.0034 for the purpose of paying interest and creating the
necessary s Ole pay Street Improvement Bonds,
series 1951, der 1, 1951;
(37) Out of said am 57 there is hereby appropriated
$0.0031 for th pu paying interest and creating the
necessary sink . o pay Public Park Bonds, Series 1952
dated July 11 1952;'
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(38) Out of the said amount of $0.557 there is hereby appropriated
$0.0038 for the purpose of paying interest and creating the
necessary sinking fund to pay Fire Station Bonds, Series 1954,
dated February 1, 19543
(39) Out of said amount of $0.557 there is hereby appropriated
$0.0012 for the purpose of paying interest and creating the
necessary sinking fund to pay Fire Station Bond, Series
1954 -A, dated December 1, 1954;
(40) Out of'said amount of $0.557 there is hereby appropriated
$0.0083 for the purpose of paying interest and creating the
necessary sinking fund to pay Storm Sewer Bonds, Series 1954,
dated February 1, 19541
(41) Out of said amount of $0.557 there is hereby appropriated
$0.0090 for the purpose of paying interest and creating the
necessary sinking fund to pay Storm Sewer Bonds, Series
1954 -A, dated December 1, 1954;
(42) Out of the said amount of $0.557 there is hereby appropriated
$0.0138 for the_purpose of paying interest and creating the
necessary sinking fund to pay Street Improvement Bonds', Series
1954, dated February 1, 1954;
(43) Out of said amount of $0.557 there is hereby appropriated
$0.0049 for the purpose of paying interest and creating the
necessary sinking fund to pay Street Improvement Bonds,,
Series 1954 -A, dated December 1, 1954;
(44) Out of said amount of $0.557 there is hereby appropriated
$0.0013 for the purpose of paying interest and creating the
necessary sinking fund to pay Street Right-of-Way Bonds-,
Series 1954, dated February 1, 1954;
(45) Out of said amount of $0.557 there is hereby'appropri.ated
$0.0023 for the purpose of paying interest and creating the
necessary sinking fund to pay Traffic Control System Bonds,
Series 1954, dated February 1, 1954;
(46) Out of said amount of'$0.557 there is hereby appropriated
$0.0023 for the purpose of paying interest and creating the
necessary sinking fund to pay Traffic Control System Bonds,
Series 1954 -A, dated December 1, 1954;
(47) Out of said amount of $0.557 there is hereby appropriated
$0.0662 for the purpose of paying interest and-creating the
necessary sinking fund to pay General Obligation Bonds,
Series 1955, dated December 1, 1955;
(48) Out of the amount of $0.557 there is hereby appropriated
$0.0461 for-the purpose of paying interest and creating
the necessary sinking fund to pay Airport Bonds, Series
1957, dated February 1, 1957;
(49) Out of the amount of 0.557 there is hereby appropriated
$0.0172 for the purpose of paying interest and creating
the necessary sinking fund to pay Storm Sewer Bonds,
Series 1957, dated February 1, 1957;
(50) Out of the amount of $0.557 there is hereby appropriated
$0.0242 for the purpose of paying interest and creating
the necessary sinking fund to pay General Improvement
Bonds, Series 1957, dated December' 1, 1957;
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(51) Out of the amount of $0.557 there is hereby appropriated
$0.0032 for the purpose of paying interest and creating
the necessary sinking fund to pay Refunding Bonds, Series
1958, dated June 1, 1958;
(52) Out of the amount of $0.557 there is hereby appropriated
$0.0190 for the purpose of paying interest and creating
the - ,necessary sinking fund to pay Airport Bonds, Series
1958) dated June 1, 1958;
(53) Out of the amount of $0.557 there is hereby appropriated
$0.0138 for the purpose of paying interest and creating
the necessary sinking fund to pay Storm Sewer Bonds, Series
1958, dated June,l, 1958;
(54) Out of the amount of $6.557 there is hereby appropriated
$0.1005 for the purpose of paying interest and creating
the necessary sinking fund to pay General Improvement Bonds,
Series 1958, dated December 1, 1958; and
(55) Out of the amount of $0.557 there is hereby appropriated
$0.0126 for the purpose of paying interest and creating the
necessary sinking fund to pay any bond that may be issued
during the fiscal year 1959..60.
SECTION 4. All taxes for the Year 1959 hereby levied shall become due
and payable at the Office of the Tax Aasesgor- Collector of the City of Corpus
Christi, Texas, on or after the first day of August, 1959, and if'the taxes
levied for said year are not paid on or before January 31st next after
becoming due, interest shall be charged,�upon the gross amount of the taxes
due and penalty due until: paid at the rate of one -half of one per cent
(1/2 of 1%) for'each month or fraction thereof thereafter. Said interest
shall be in addition to such penalties as may be hereafter provided for
delinquent taxes.. No discount for payment of taxes prior to such taxes
becoming delinquent shall be allowed:
SECTION 5. That the fact that.the passage of an ordinance for-the
levying of taxes for,the City of Corpus Christi for the Year 1959, is'necessary
'and important to the people of the City and the further fact that the preparation
and completion of the tax rolls of the City for the Year'1959, is dependent
upon the passage of this ordinance, and in order that said tax�roll may be
completed and ready for the collectiou,of said taxes when the same become due
and payable as aforesaid, creates an emergency and an imperative public necessity
requiring the suspension of the Charter rule providing that no resolution or
ordinance 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 Mayor, having declared 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 take effect and be in full
force and effect from and after the passage of same, IT IS ACCORDINGLY PASSED
AND APFROPED, this the day of July, A.D. 1959-
MAYOR `
THE. CITY OF Co
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ATTEST:
19G-lfJ6 City Secretary
APPROVED AS TO LEGAL FORM. '%/29/> `%
City Att ey-
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CORPUS CHRISTI TEXAS
,2 q AY OF 0959
TO THE MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL
CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS ,
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 RESOLU-
TION SHALL BE PASSED FINALLY ON THE DATE IT IS INTRODUCED AND THAT SUCH
ORDINANCE OR RESOLLUUTIV SHALL BE READ AT THREE MEETINGS OF THE CITY COUNCIL;
I THEREFORE, HERE _ QUEST THAT YOU SUSPEND SAID CHARTER RULE OR REQUIRE-
MENT AND PASS THIS ORDINANCE FINALLY ON THE DATE IT IS INTRODUCED, OR AT THE
PRESENT MEETING OF THE CITY COUNCIL.
RESPECTFULLY,
MAYOR
THE CITY OR
0 PUS R STIJEXAS
THE CHARTER RULE WAS SUSPENDED BY THE FOLLOWING VOTE:
ELLROY ICING
JAMES L. BARNARD
MRS. RAY AIRHEART
JOSEPH B. DUNN
' PATRICK J. DUNNE
R. A. HUMBLE
GABE LOZANO, SR.
THE ABOVE ORDINANCE WAS PASSED BY THE FOLLOWING VOTE:
ELLROY ICING
JAMES L. BARNARD
MRS. RAY AIRHEART
JOSEPH B. DUNN
PATRICK J. DUNNE
R. A. HUMBLE
GABE LOZANO, $R. fl,tlo
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