HomeMy WebLinkAbout17197 ORD - 08/11/1982AN ORDINANCE
AMENDING CODE SECTION 35-161 TO INCREASE SURETY BOND
REQUIREMENTS; AMENDING CODE SECTION 35-162 TO INCREASE
THE FINANCIAL CAPACITY REQUIRED FOR SELF-INSURANCE; AND
PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE WITH A TRANSITION PERIOD,
SEVERANCE AND PUBLICATION.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI,
TEXAS:
SECTION 1. That the Code of Ordinances of the City of Corpus
Christi be amended by amending Section 35-161 thereof to increase the surety
bond requirements from $10,000 to $20,000 and add violations of this article
to the list of losses covered. Said section shall hereafter read as follows:
Each applicant shall file a bond with the superintendent,
executed by the applicant as principal and by a good and
sufficient corporate surety company. Said bond shall
provide that the principal will remedy any and all
damages to the streets, curbs, gutters, waterlines, fire
hydrants and other public property, occasioned in any
manner by the principal, his agents, employees, servants
and contractors, and that applicant will reimburse the
city for any expenditures made by the city under the
authority granted in section 35-135 and for any violation
of this article. Such bonds shall inure to the benefit
of the city; shall be in a form acceptable to the city
attorney; and shall be in the amount of twenty thousand
dollars ($20,000.00). Applicant shall not be required to
post additional bond if he has in effect and on file with
the superintendent an approved bond, filed in connection
with some other application for the same applicant, in
the amount of twenty thousand dollars ($20,000.00) as
required by this section. Each bond shall be for a term
of five (5) years and shall be kept in effect by renewal
on or before any expiration date unless the applicant is
sooner released by the superintendent.
SECTION 2. That the Code of Ordinances of the City of Corpus
Christi be amended by amending Section 35-162 thereof by increasing the
minimum financial capacity required of an applicant to obtain a waiver of the
insurance and surety bond requirements from $300,000 to $20,000,000. Said
section shall hereafter read as follows:
The city counCil may waive the requirements for any bond
or policies of insurance, which are required under this
article, as to any applicant who is financially
responsible and capable of meeting obligations for
amounts in excess of twenty million dollars
($20,000,000.00) upon applicant's filing with the
superintendent, in lieu of said surety bond and insurance
repirements, a letter of acceptance and indemnity,
approved by the city attorney, binding and obligating
said applicant to abide by the conditions for which
surety bond and insurance policies are required as
prescribed above and agreeing to indemnify and hold the
city harmless from liability growing out of or
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attributable to the granting of permits hereunder to such
applicant.
SECTION 3. That this Ordinance shall be effective beginning
August 15, 1982; provided that any applicant in compliance with the existing
ordinances for current operations shall be allowed to defer compliance with
the aforesaid amendments until such applicant shall file any new application
under this Article or request the renewal of any existing application or bond
currently in effect; however, in no event shall noncomplaince with the
amendments herein be deferred beyond August 15, 1983.
SECTION 4. If any clause, provision, or section of this Ordinance
should be held illegal or invalid by any court of competent jurisdiction, the
illegality or invalidity of such clause, provision or section shall not
affect any of the remaining clauses, provisions or sections hereof, and this
Ordinance shall be construed and enforced as if such illegal or invalid
clause, provision or section had not been contained herein.
SECTION 5. Publication shall be made one time in the official
publication of the City of Corpus Christi by publishing the caption of this
Ordinance, stating in substance its purpose.
That the foregoing ordinance wasjead for t
" second reading on this the e:Pi day of
following vote:
Luther Jones
Betty N. Turner
Jack K. Dumphy
Bob Gulley
Herbert L. Hawkins, Jr.
Dr. Charles W. Kennedy
Cliff Zarsky
fi st time nd passed to its
by the
That the foregoing ordinance 1 s read for
third reading on this the day of
following vote:
Luther Jones
Betty N. Turner .
Jack K.-Eumphy
Bob Gulley
Herbert L. Hawkins, Jr.
Dr. Charles W. Kennedy
Cliff Zarsky
second
ime aq4Apassed to its
, by the
That the foregoingAerdinance w ead for the two ime and passed finally
on this the ir"---day of , 1946'2/, by the following vote:
Luther Jones
Betty N. Turner
Jack K. Dumphy
Bob Gulley
Herbert L. Hawkins, Jr.
Dr. Charles W. Kennedy
Cliff Zarsky
PASSED AND APPROVED, this the //d/
ATTEST:
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APPINIVED:
1-Y1—DAY OF ,
J. BRUCE Yj TY ATTORNEY
By
Assis nt City Attorney
THE 4FY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS
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PUBLISHER'S AFFIDAVIT
STK& OF TEXAS, t„
_County of Nueces. J
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- CITY OF C.C.
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Before me, the undersigned, a Notary Public, this day personally came_
LORRAINE C. MARTINEZ
who being first duly sworn, according to kW/, says that he is the
ACCOUNTING CLERK of the Corpus Christi Caller and The Corpus Christi limes,
Daily Newspapers published at Corpus Christi, Texas,, in said County and State, and that the publication of
NOTICE OF PASSAGE,...
of which the annexed is a true copy, was published in THE CORPUS CHRISTI CALLER -TIMES
on the -1 6thday AUGUST 19_.2., and once each day .thereafter for one
consecutive cla
Times.
23 . 4Q
LORRAINE C. MARTINEZ oxlimaing., ,Y)204P-zr,zt,
ACCOUNTING CLERK
Subsciihed and sworn to before me this.. 91-3-1 day of ATTGUT. 19
EUGENIA S. CORTEZ
...„„).Tiotary Pub c, Nueces County, Texas
'NOTICE -0
PASSAGE
ORDINANCE N0:17197
AMENDING .CODE SEC
TION 35-161 TO'INCREA
SURETY Bi)ND REQUIRE./
MENTS; AMENDING
CODE SECTION 35-162 TO
INCREASE TRE FINANi
CIAL CAPACITY REA
QUIRED FOR SELF -I 4
SURANCE:- AND
PROVIDING FOR AN EF:.
FECTIVE DATE WITH A
TRANSITION PERIOca
SEVERANCE AND PUBLI;
CATION,:
Was passed and approved by,
the City Council of the CItypf,
Corpus Christi, Texas on f he
Ilth day of AU91..5t, 1982. TIN!
full text of said ordinance Is
available to the public In thp,
Office of the City SecretanM
.s. Bill G. ReNS
" City Secretar,
Co us Christi, Tex
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