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Home My WebLink About05510 ORD - 10/07/1959IMS :JKH :10 -5 -59 AN ORDINANCE SETTING UP. CREATING AND DIVIDING THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI TEXAS INTO TWENTY (20) WARDS; DESCRIBING SAID WARDS; REPEALING ALL ORDI CES D PARTS OF ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT HEREWITH; AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY. WHEREAS, IT IS DEEMED NECESSARY TO CHANGE THE CITY, WARDS OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI IN ORDER TO FACILITATE THE HOLDING OF ELECTIONS THEREIN: NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI,, TEXAS: SECTION 1. THAT THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI AS ITS BOUNDARIES NOW EXIST, IS HEREBY DIVIDED INTO TWENTY (20) WARDS WITH THE RESPECTIVE NUMBERS OF SAID WARDS BEING AS HEREAFTER SET FORTH, TO -WIT: CITY WARD NO. 1 SHALL COMPRISE AND INCLUDE ALL OF THE AREA WITHIN THE BOUNDARIES OF COUNTY VOTING PRECINCTS NOS. 1 *, 2, 3, 4, 5, 19 *, 21*, 30 AND 49 AS FIXED BY THE ORDER OF THE COMMISSIONERS COURT FIXING PRECINCT BOUNDA- RIES RECORDED IN VOLUME 6, PAGES 483 TO 495, COMMISSIONERS COURT MINUTES DATED AUGUST 12, 19517• CITY WARD N0. 2 SHALL COMPRISE AND INCLUDE ALL OF THE AREA WITHIN THE BOUNDARIES OF COUNTY VOTING PRECINCTS NOS. 38, 47, 78 AND 79 AS FIXED BY THE ORDER OF THE COMMISSIONERS COURT FIXING PRECINCT BOUNDARIES RECORDED IN VOLUME 6, PAGES 483 TO 495, COMMISSIONERS COURT MINUTES DATED AUGUST 12, 1957• CITY WARD NO. 3 SHALL COMPRISE AND INCLUDE ALL OF THE AREA WITHIN THE BOUNDARIES OF COUNTY VOTING PRECINCTS NOS. 74, 8*, 52, 82 AND 99 AS FIXED BY THE ORDER OF THE COMMISSIONERS COURT FIXING PRECINCT BOUNDARIES RECORDED IN VOLUME 6, PAGES 483 TO 495, COMMISSIONERS COURT MINUTES DATED AUGUST 12, 1957• CITY WARD N0. 4 SHALL COMPRISE AND INCLUDE ALL OF THE AREA WITHIN THE BOUNDARIES OF COUNTY VOTING PRECINCTS NOS. 51 {, 81* AND 24¢'AS FIXED BY THE ORDER OF THE COMMISSIONERS COURT FIXING PRECINCT BOUNDARIES RECORDED IN VOLUME 6, PAGES 483 TO 495, COMMISSIONERS COURT MINUTES DATED AUGUST 12� 1957• CITY WARD N0. 5 SHALL COMPRISE AND INCLUDE ALL OF THE AREA WITHIN THE BOUNDARIES OF COUNTY VOTING PRECINCTS NOS. 44, 60, 61 AND 77 AS FIXED BY THE ORDER OF THE COMMISSIONERS COURT FIXING PRECINCT BOUNDARIES RECORDED IN VOLUME 6, PAGES 483 TO 495, COMMISSIONERS COURT MINUTES DATED AUGUST 12, 1957• CITY WARD NO. 6 SHALL COMPRISE AND INCLUDE ALL OF THE AREA WITHIN THE BOUNDARIES OF COUNTY VOTING PRECINCTS NOS. 41, 45, 46, 48 AND 76 AS FIXED BY THE ORDER OF THE COMMISSIONERS COURT FIXING PRECINCT BOUNDARIES RECORDED IN VOLUME 6, PAGES 483 TO 495, COMMISSIONERS COURT MINUTES DATED AUGUST 12, 1957• FALL OF THAT PORTION OF THE AREA WITHIN THE BOUNDARIES OF - COUNTY VOTING PECINCT LYING WITHIN THE CITY LIMITS. 5510 • CITY WARD N0. 7 SHALL COMPRISE AND INCLUDE ALL OF THE AREA WITHIN THE BOUNDARIES OF COUNTY VOTING PRECINCTS NOS. 31, 32, 33, 6, 39 AND 85 AS FIXED BY THE ORDER OF THE COMMISSIONERS COURT FIXING PRECINCT BOUNDARIES RE- CORDED IN VOLUME 6, PAGES 483 TO 495, COMMISSIONERS COURT MINUTES DATED AUGUST 12, 1957. CITY WARD NO. 8 SHALL COMPRISE AND INCLUDE ALL OF THE AREA WITHIN THE BOUNDARIES OF COUNTY VOTING PRECINCTS NOS. 4O, 58 AND 62 AS FIXED BY THE ORDER OF THE COM- MISSIONERS COURT FIXING PRECINCT BOUNDARIES RECORDED IN VOLUME 6, PAGES 483 TO 495, COMMISSIONERS COURT MINUTES DATED AUGUST 12, 1957. CITY WARD NO. 9 SHALL COMPRISE AND INCLUDE ALL OF THE AREA WITHIN THE BOUNDARIES OF COUNTY VOTING PRECINCTS Nos. 43, 57, 83 AND 88 AS FIXED BY THE ORDER OF THE COMMISSIONERS COURT FIXING PRECINCT BOUNDARIES RECORDED IN VOLUME 6, PAGES 483 TO 495, COMMISSIONERS COURT MINUTES DATED AUGUST 12, 1957. CITY WARD NO. 10 SHALL COMPRISE AND INCLUDE ALL OF THE AREA WITHIN THE BOUNDARIES OF COUNTY VOTING PRECINCTS NOS. 74 AND 75 AS FIXED BY THE ORDER OF THE COMMISSIONERS COURT FIXING PRECINCT BOUNDARIES RECORDED IN VOLUME 6, PAGES 483 TO 495, COMMISSIONERS COURT MINUIES DATED AUGUST 12, 1957. CITY WARD NO. 11 SHALL COMPRISE AND INCLUDE ALL OF THE AREA WITHIN THE BOUNDARIES OF COUNTY VOTING PRECINCTS NOS. 80 AND 98 AS FIXED BY THE ORDER OF THE COMMISSIONERS COURT FIXING PRECINCT BOUNDARIES RECORDED IN VOLUME 6, PAGES 483 TO 495, COMMISSIONERS COURT MINUTES DATED AUGUST 12, 1957. CITY WARD NO. 12 SHALL COMPRISE AND INCLUDE ALL OF THE AREA WITHIN THE BOUNDARIES OF COUNTY VOTING PRECINCTS NOS. 71, 73, 97 AND 20* AS FIXED BY THE ORDER OF THE COMMISSIONERS COURT FIXING PRECINCT BOUNDARIES RECORDED IN VOLUME 6, PAGES 483 TO 495, COMMISSIONERS COURT MINUTES DATED AUGUST 12, 1957. CITY WARD NO. 13 SHALL COMPRISE AND INCLUDE ALL OF THE AREA WITHIN THE BOUNDARIES OF COUNTY VOTING PRECINCTS NOS. 53, 56, 68 AND 96 AS FIXED BY THE ORDER OF THE COMMISSIONERS COURT FIXING PRECINCT BOUNDARIES RECORDED IN VOLUME 6, PAGES 483 TO 495, COMMISSIONERS COURT MINUTES DATED AUGUST 12, 1957• CITY WARD NO. 14 SHALL COMPRISE AND INCLUDE ALL OF THE AREA WITHIN THE BOUNDARIES OF COUNTY VOTING PRECINCTS NOS. 50, 59, 67 AND 86 AS FIXED BY THE ORDER OF THE COMMISSIONERS COURT FIXING PRECINCT BOUNDARIES RECORDED IN VOLUME 6, PAGES 483 TO 495, COMMISSIONERS COURT MINUTES DATED AUGUST 12, 1957• CITY WARD N0. 15 SHALL COMPRISE AND INCLUDE ALL OF THE AREA WITHIN THE BOUNDARIES OF COUNTY VOTING PRECINCTS NOS. 42, 63 AND 66 AS FIXED BY THE ORDER OF THE COM- MISSIONERS COURT FIXING PRECINCT BOUNDARIES RECORDED IN VOLUME 6, PAGES 483 TO 495, COMMISSIONERS COURT MINUTES DATED AUGUST 12, 1957. *ALL OF TRAT PORTION OF THE AREA.WITHIN THE BOUNDARIES OF - COUNTY VOTING PRECINCT LYING WITHIN THE CITY LIMITS. -2- CITY WARD NO. 16 SHALL COMPRISE AND INCLUDE ALL OF THE AREA WITHIN THE BOUNDARIES OF COUNTY VOTING PRECINCTS NOS. 69, 72 AND 87 AS FIXED BY THE ORDER OF THE COM- MISSIONERS COURT FIXING PRECINCT BOUNDARIES RECORDED IN VOLUME 6, PAGES 4:83 To 495, COMMISSIONERS COURT MINUTES DATED AUGUST 12, 1957. CITY WARD NO. 17 SHALL COMPRISE AND INCLUDE ALL OF THE AREA WITHIN THE BOUNDARIES OF COUNTY VOTING PRECINCTS NOS. 84, 91+ AND 95 AS FIXED BY THE ORDER OF THE COM- MISSIONERS COURT FIXING PRECINCT BOUNDARIES RECORDED IN VOLUME 6, PAGES x+83 TO 495, COMMISSIONERS COURT MINUTES DATED AUGUST 12, 1957• CITY WARD N0. 18 SHALL COMPRISE AND INCLUDE ALL OF THE AREA WITHIN THE BOUNDARIES OF COUNTY VOTING PRECINCTS NOS. 64 AND 93 AS FIXED BY THE ORDER OF THE COMMISSIONERS COURT FIXING PRECINCT BOUNDARIES RECORDED IN VOLUME 6, PAGES 483 TO 495, COMMISSIONERS COURT MINUTES DATED AUGUST 12, 1957. CITY WARD N0. 19 SHALL COMPRISE AND INCLUDE ALL OF THE AREA WITHIN THE BOUNDARIES OF COUNTY VOTING PRECINCTS NOS. 17 *, 70 *, 89, 90 AND 91* AS FIXED BY THE ORDER OF THE COMMISSIONERS COURT FIXING PRECINCT BOUNDARIES RECORDED IN VOLUME 6, PAGES 1483 TO 495, COMMISSIONERS COURT MINUTES DATED AUGUST 12, 1957. CITY WARD ND. 20 SHALL COMPRISE AND INCLUDE ALL OF THE AREA WITHIN THE BOUNDARIES OF COUNTY VOTING PRECINCTS NOS. 65 AND 92 AS FIXED BY THE ORDER OF THE COMMISSIONERS COURT FIXING PRECINCT BOUNDARIES RECORDED IN VOLUME 6, PAGES 1483 TO 495, COMMISSIONERS COURT MINUTES DATED AUGUST 12, 1957. *ALL OF THAT PORTION OF THE AREA WITHIN THE BOUNDARIES OF COUNTY VOTING PRECINCT LYING WITHIN THE CITY LIMITS. SECTION 2. THAT ALL ORDINANCES OR PARTS OF ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT IEREWITH ARE HEREBY EXPRESSLY REPEALED. SECTION 3. THE FACT THAT A NEW DIVISION OF WARDS 1S REQUIRED FOR THE CITY IN ORDER TO CONFORM WITH THE VOTING PRECINCTS ESTABLISHED BY THE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS COURT AND SIMPLIFY THE NUMBERING OF SAID WARDS FOR THE INFORMATION OF THE VOTERS CREATES A PUBLIC EMERGENCY AND AN IMPERATIVE PUBLIC NECESSITY REQUIRING THE SUSPENSION OF THE CHARTER RULE THAT NOCROINANCE 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 SUCH EMERGENCY AND IMPERATIVE PUBLIC NECESSITY EXIST, AND HAVING REQUESTED THAT SUCH CHARTER RULE BE SUSPENDED AND THAT THIS ORDI- NANCE BE PASSED FINALLY ON THE DATE OF ITS INTRODUCTION AND TAKE EFFECT -3- FROM AND AFTER ITS PASSAGE, IT IS ACCORDINGLY PASSED AND APPROVED, THIS THE_DAY OF_ _m ) _s 19559- ATTEST: MAYOR THE CITY OF ORPUS C14STI, TEXAS //-, vo—, J CITY SECREU APPROVED AS TO AL FORM THIS � DAY OF 1959: n 0 CITY ATftRNE$ r . • CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS DAY OF 1959 I;k 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 RESOLUTION SHALL BE READ AT THREE MEETINGS OF THE CITY COUNCIL; 'I THEREFORE, HEREBY REQUEST 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, C YOR THE CITY C PUS C ISTI,TEXAS THE CHARTER RULE WAS SUSPENDED BY THE FOLLOWING VOTE: _ ELLRDY KING ✓�� JAMES L. BARNARD MRS. RAY AIRHEART / JOSEPH B. DUNN PATRICK J. DUNNE R. A. HUMBLE / GAGE LOZANO, SR. THE ABOVE ORDINANCE WAS PASSED BY THE FOL WING VOTE: ELLROY KING JAMES L. BARNARD MRS. RAY AIRHEART JOSEPH Be DUNN I PATRICK J. DUNNE / R. A. HUMBLE CASE LOZANO, SR.