HomeMy WebLinkAbout15977 RES - 01/14/1981A RESOLUTION
ENDORSING PASSAGE BY THE TEXAS STATE LEGISLATURE OF
LEGISLATION PROHIBITING THE SELLING, POSSESSION, OR
DISCHARGING OF FIREWORKS IN THE STATE OF TEXAS, NUECES
COUNTY, OR CITY'S 5 -MILE EXTRATERRITORIAL JURISDICTION;
AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.
WHEREAS, the cost to taxpayers for fire suppression and fire prevention
resulting from the selling, possession, and discharging of fireworks within the
State of Texas continues to increase annually; and
WHEREAS, the City Council, recognizing the need to prohibit the selling,
possession, or discharging of fireworks within the City's limits,has previously
passed ordinances making such activities illegal within the City and within
5,000 feet of the City's limits, and
WHEREAS, the availability of fireworks beyond the 5,000 feet limit
from the City and the selling of such fireworks in areas not regulated by the City
has resulted in continued and substantial personal property losses and injuries;
and
WHEREAS, the estimated personal property losses within Corpus Christi
amounted to over a total of $385,000 in 1979 and 1980 as a result of roof and
grass fires attributed to the discharging of fireworks; and
WHEREAS, the City has long recognized the need to seek additional
remedies other than to just ban fireworks from within the City's limits:
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS:
SECTION 1. That the City Council of the City of Corpus Christi endorses
the passage of legislation amending Article 9205 of the Revised Civil Statutes
of Texas to prohibit the selling, possession, or discharging of fireworks within
the State.
SECTION 2. If such a prohibition is unobtainable, the City Council
endorses the passage of legislation to prohibit the selling, possession, or dis-
charging of fireworks within Nueces County or within the City's 5 -mile extra-
territorial jurisdiction.
MICROFILMED.
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SECTION 3. Such a prohibition should not seek to ban supervised
displays of fireworks by municipalities, fair associations, amusement parks,
or other organizations or groups of individuals complying with prescribed
legal and safety requirements.
SECTION 4. The necessity of taking a position on the prohibition
of the selling, possession, or discharging of fireworks in the State, Nueces
County, or the City's 5 mile extraterritorial jurisdiction, as hereinabove
set forth, 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 but that such ordinance
or resolution shall be read at three several meetings of the City Council, and
the Mayor having declared that such emergency and necessity exist, having
requested the suspension of the Charter rule and that this resolution be
passed finally on the date of its introduction and take effect and be in full
force_and of ct from and after its passage, IT IS ACCORDINGLY SO RESOLVED,;
this the day of January, 1981.
ATTEST:
y Secretary
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J. BRUCE AYCO , CITY iATTORNE /
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THE CI OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS
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TO THE MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL
Corpus Christi, Texas
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 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, therefore, request that you suspend
said Charter rule or requirement and pass this ordinance finally,on the date it
is introduced, or at the present meeting of the City Council.
Respectfully,
THE TY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS
The Charter rule was suspended by the following vote:.
Luther Jones
Edward L. Sample
.Dr. Jack Best
Jack K. Dumphy
Leopoldo Luna
Betty N. Turner
Cliff Zarsky
The above ordinance was pass by the following vote:
Luther Jones
Edward L. Sample
Dr. Jack Best
Jack K. Dumphy
Leopoldo Luna
Betty N. Turner
Cliff Zarsky '
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