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AM ORDINANCE
AMENDING SECTION 17-12 OF THE CORPUS CHRISTI CITY CODE
TO COMPLY WITH ARTICLE IX, SECTION 27 OF THE CHARTER OF
THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI SO THAT THE PERIOD WITHIN
WHICH NOTICE OF INJURY MUST BE GIVEN IS CHANGED FROM
NINETY DAYS TO ONE HUNDRED EIGHTY DAYS, AS PROVIDED IN
THE CHARTER.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI,
TEXAS:
SECTION 1. That Section 17-12 of the Corpus Christi City Code is
hereby amended to read as follows:
"Before the city shall be liable for.damages for the death or person-
al injuries of any person or for damage to or destruction of property of any
kind, which does not constitute a taking or damaging of property under Article I,
Section 17, Constitution of Texas, the person injured, if living, or his repre-
sentatives, if dead, or the owner of the property damaged or destroyed, shall
give the mayor or city council notice in writing of such death, injury,
damage or destruction, duly verified by affidavit, within one hundred eighty
(180) days after the,occurrences not subject to the Texas Tort Claims Act,
stating specifically in such written notice when, how, and where the death,
injury, damage or destruction occurred and the apparent extent of any such
injury, the amount of damages sustained, the actual residence of such claimant
for six months immediately preceding the occurrence of such death, injury,
damage or destruction, and the names and addresses of all witnesses upon
whom it is relied to establish the claim for damages, and the failure to so
notify the mayor or city council within the time and manner specified herein
shall exonerate, excuse and exempt the city from any liability whatsoever.
No act of any officer or employee of the city shall waive compliance, or stop
the city from requiring compliance with the provisions of this section as to
notice, but such provisions may be waived by resolution of the council made
and passed before the expiration of the one hundred eighty (180) day period
herein provided or period allowed by the Texas Tort Claims Act and evidenced
by minutes of the council."
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That the foregoing ordinance wa� read for e first time and, passed tits
second readingon this the day of ,ti. , 19 / bythe
following vote:
Luther Jones
Edward L. Sample
Dr. Jack Best
Jack K. Dumphy
Leopoldo Luna
,Betty N. Turner
Cliff Zarsky
That the foregoing ordinance wa read for th s- and time ark passed to its
third reading on this the day of �e,, 19 J , by the
following vote:
Luther Jones
Edward L. Sample
Dr. Jack Best
Jack K.•Dumphy
Leopoldo Luna
Betty N. Turner
Cliff Zarsky
That the foregoing ordina
on this the // day of
Luther Jones
Edward L. Sample
Dr. Jack Best
Jack K.'Dumphy
Leopoldo Luna'
Betty N. Turner
Cliff Zarsky
PASSED AND APPROVED, this the
ATTEST:
Secretary
APPRP1ED:
DAY OF
J. BRUCE AYC
By
Assistant City
, CITY AT
ney
as read for the third time and passed finally
, 19g/ , by the following vote:
, 19'/ :
ORNEY
MAYO
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HE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS
STATE OF TEXAS,
:.\ County of Nueces.
}es:
PUBLISHER'S AFFIDAVIT v,1 223042 •
CITY OF C.C.
•
Before me, the undersigned, a Notary Public, this day personally came
BILI1IE J, HENDEROQU , who being first duly sworn. according to law, says that he is the
_.ACCOTINTZ➢TG..P.S.ER . of the Corpus Christi Caller and The Corpus Christi Times,
Daily Newspapers published at Corpus Christi, Texas, in said County and State, and that the publication of
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of which the annexed is a true copy, was published in_.TEE..POREDS...CHRISTI..G ILER-TIMES
on the.16? _ day of...kF. RIIABI 19 a., and once each .day thereafter for...one
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Subscribed and sworn to before me this 24th..._..djay of..F�.EEBBB�11AARY �.J 19.8:1
Notary ublic, ueces County, Texas
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' NOTICE OF PASS-KG
OF ORDINANCE,
NO. 16025.
AMENDING SECTION
9-'0 F -TH E-COR P U St
CHRISTI. CITY CODE T
COMPLY WITH ARTICLE
IX, SECTION 27 OF TH
CHARTER OF THE CITY
OF CORPUS CHRISTI S ,
THAT THE PERIOD WITH- '
IN WHICH NOTICE OF Ibl,
JURY MUST BE GIVEN IS
CHANGED FROM NINET
DAYS TO ONF, HUNDRED
EIGHTY DAYS, AS PRO-
VIDED IN THE CHARTER.
AS PASSED AND AB--
PROVED by the City Council
of the City of Corpus Chris
Texas during the Regular
Council Meeting held on t
Ilth day of February, 1981,
at 2:00 p.m., and provIdi
publication one time in Inc
official publication of th
crietxya:VCorpus Christi,
ISSUED UNDER MY
HAND AND SEAL of ttur-
City of Corpus Christi, Texas
this the 12th day of Febr,
acY, 1981,
-s-BIII G. Rea ,
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Christi, Texps