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AN ORDINANCE
AMENDING THE CORPUS CHRISTI CITY CODE, AS AMENDED,
BY AMENDING CHAPTER 49, ARTICLE II, SECTION 49-21-
C4 TO PROVIDE FOR ASSESSING RETAINING WALL CON-
STRUCTION AGAINST ABUTTING PROPERTIES AT 100 PER-
CENT OF COST PLUS ENGINEERING; PROVIDING FOR SEVER-
ABILITY; PROVIDING FOR PUBLICATION; AND DECLARING
AN EMERGENCY.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI,
TEXAS:
SECTION 1. That the Corpus Christi City Code, as amended, be and
the same is hereby amended by amending Section 49-21-C4 to hereafter read
as follows:
"4. Where it becomes necessary to construct a header curb
along the property line of commercially used proper-
ties to prevent vehicles from parking, backing or
turning on the sidewalk, or to construct retaining
wall to provide lateral support for abutting property,
such header curb or retaining wall will be 100 per-
cent assessed, plus 8 percent of construction costs
for engineering, against such abutting property."
SECTION 2. If for any reason any section, paragraph, subdivision,
clause, phrase, word, or provision of this ordinance shall be held invalid
or unconstitutional by final judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction
it shall not affect any other section, paragraph, subdivision, clause,
phrase, word, or provision of this ordinance, for it is the definite intent
of this City Council that every section, paragraph, subdivision, clause,
phrase, word, or provision hereof be given full force and effect for its
purpose.
SECTION 3. Publication shall be made one time in the official
publication of the City of Corpus Christi, which publication shall contain
the caption stating in substance the purpose of the ordinance.
SECTION 4. That upon written request of the Mayor or five Council
members, copy attached, to find and declare an emergency due to public ne-
cessity, such finding of an emergency is made and declared requiring sus-
pension of the Charter rule as to consideration and voting upon ordinances
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or resolutions at three regular meetings so that this ordinance is passed
and shall take effect upon first reading as an emergency measure this
24 day of August, 1981.
ATTEST:
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C' y Secretary
APPROVED: ( AY OF AUGUST, 1981
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Bruce Aycock, y Attorney
MA
Y
HE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS
Corpus Christi, Tes
a.24 day of
TO THE MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL
Corpus Christi, Texas
For the reasons set forth in the emergency clause of the foregoing ordinance or resolution,
an emergency exists requiring suspension of the Charter rule as to consideration and voting
upon ordinances or resolutions at three regular meetings; I/we, therefore, request that you
suspend said Charter rule and pass this ordinance or resolution finally on the date it is
introduced, or at the present meeting of the City Council.
Respectfully, Respectfully,
, 1981
Council Members
MAYOR
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THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS
The above ordinance was passed by the foll'wing vote:
Luther Jones
Betty N. Turner
Jack K. Dumphy
Bob Gulley
Herbert L.:Hawkins, Jr.
Dr. Charles W. Kennedy
Cliff Zarsky
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