HomeMy WebLinkAbout17585 ORD - 05/04/1983AN ORDINANCE
PROVIDING FOR PROHIBITION OF SWIMMING, USE OF SURFBOARDS,
BOATS, MOTORBOATS, AND VESSELS ALONG SIDE OF BOB HALL
PIER; PROVIDING A PENALTY FOR VIOLATION; PROVIDING A
SEVERABILITY CLAUSE; AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI,
TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Definitions. For the purposes of this ordinance, the
following definitions shall apply unless the content requires a different
definition:
(a) Vessel - Any watercraft other than a seaplane on water, used
or capable of being used for transportation on water.
(b) Boat - Any vessel not more than 65 feet in length, measured
from end to end over the deck, excluding sheer, and manufactured or used
primarily for noncommercial use.
(c) Motorboat - Any vessel propelled by machinery, whether or not
the machinery is the principal source of propulsion, but shall not include a
vessel which has a valid marine document issued by the Bureau of Customs of
the United States Government, or any Federal agency successor.
(d) Operate - Navigate or otherwise use a motorboat, vessel, or
surfboard.
(e) Surfboard - A flat, solid vessel made of wood, plastic, or
other non -flexible material capable of supporting one or more people while
floating in the water, which is not propelled by a motor and which is
designed to be propelled by wave action or sail.
(f) Person - An individual, partnership, firm, corporation,
association or other entity.
(g) Coastline - The line of mean low tide along that portion of
the coast which is in direct contact with the open Gulf of Mexico.
Section 2. No person shall swim, surf by the use of surfboards,
operate boats, motorboats or vessels in the following designated area:
Beginning at a point where the water touches the sand under Bob
Hall Pier for a distance of 100 feet from the outer vertical edges of Bob
Hall Pier for the entire water area around said pier as per the attached
sketch as prepared by Park and Recreation dated April 28, 1983.
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SECTION 3. Any person who violates or fails to comply with any of
the provisions of this ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and
upon conviction of any such violation shall be fined a sum not to exceed Two
Hundred Dollars ($200.00).
SECTION 4. 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 5. This ordinance shall be in full force and effect after
publication which shall be made one time by publishing in the official
newspaper of the City of Corpus Christi the caption of this ordinance stating
in substance the purpose of the aforesaid ordinance.
That the foregoing ordinance waft read for
second reading on this the 2Qday of
following vote:
Luther Jones
Betty N. Turner
Jack K. Dumphy
Bob Gulley
Herbert L. Hawkins, Jr.
Dr. Charles W. Kennedy
Cliff Zarsky
That the foregoing ordinance wa r ad for th econd time and ed to its
third reading on this the 01 ay of , 19 , by the
following vote:
first time and pyyysed to its
19 ,by the
Luther Jones
Betty N. Turner
Jack K. Dumphy
Bob Gulley
Herbert L. Hawkins, Jr.
Dr. Charles W. Kennedy
Cliff Zarsky
That the for ng ordinance as read for the tlArd time and passed finally
on this the day of ice, , 19 , , by the following vote:
Luther Jones
Betty N. Turner
Jack K. Dumphy
Bob Gulley
Herbert L. Hawkins, Jr.
Dr. Charles W. Kennedy
Cliff Zarsky
OCPASSED AND APPROVED, this the day of I/ _ , 19
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PUBLISHER'S AF'F'IDAVIT
STATE OF TEXAS, lss.
County of Nueces.
Before me, the undersigned, a Notary Public, this day personally came.
GRACIE DE LUNA ., who being first duly sworn, according to law, says that he is the
ADM .ASST . SECRETARY of the Corpus Christi Caller and The Corpus Christi T mm,
Daily Newspapers published at Corpus Christi, Texas,, in said County and State, and that the publication of
NOTICE OF PASSAGE OF ORDINANCE NO. 17585...
o€ Which the annexed is a true copy, was published in CALLER—TIMES PUBLISHING CO.
on the .:..9th day of_ May __ 1983 and once each. thereafter for one
consecutive. _._ day
_gat_ .....
27.72 GRACIE DE LUNA Att.Q1
ADM. ASST. SECRETARY
Subscribed and sworn to before me thio .10th _day of May 19 8 3
EUGENIA S. CORTEZ
Notary Pubifc, Nueces County, T
NOTire-
""L''' PASSAAE O
ORDINANCE
G; NO. 0.8.5
FOR FOR PROHI-
BITION OF SWIMMING"
USE OF SURFBOARDS"
BOATS, MOTORBOATS,'
AND VESSELS ALONG
SIDE OF BOB HALL'
PIER; PROVIDING Al
PENALTY FOR VIOLA;
TION; PROVIDING A SEW
ERABILITY CLAUSE
-
AND PROVIDING AN EF-.,
FECTIVE DATE.
Was passed and approved
by the City Council of the
City of Corpus Christi, Tex,
as on the 4th day of Mayy,)
1983. The full text of said
ordinance is available to the
public in the Office of the'
City Secretary.
s•BiII G. Read --
oily Secretary
Corpus Christi, „-
Texas,