HomeMy WebLinkAbout18284 ORD - 06/12/1984TEXAS:
AN ORDINANCE
AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 18230 WHICH ADOPTED THE STANDARD
FIRE PREVENTION CODE, 1982 EDITION WITH CERTAIN 1983
REVISIONS AND OTHER CHANGES, TO PROVIDE AN AMENDED
DEFINITION OF FIREWORKS, AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI,
SECTION 1. That Ordinance No. 18230 of the City of Corpus
Christi, as amended, be amended by amending Chapter 17, Fireworks, Section
17.02, Definition, to read as follows:
Fireworks - means and includes any combustible or explosive
composition, or any substance or combination of substances, or device
prepared for the purpose of producing a visible or an audible effect by
combustion, explosion, deflagration, or detonation, and shall include blank
cartridges, toy pistols, toy cannons, toy canes, or toy guns in which
explosives are used, firecrackers, torpedoes, pop pops (such as pop tops,
pow pow, fun snaps, -or similar explosive devices which can be projected,
tossed, thrown, or dropped), skyrockets, Roman candles, Daygo bombs,
sparklers, or other devices of like construction and any devices containing
any explosive or flammable compound, or any tablet or other device
containing an explosive substance, except that the term "fireworks" shall
not include any auto flares, paper caps which contain twenty-five
hundredths (.25) of a grain of explosive content or less per cap and are
used with toy pistols, toy canes, toy guns or other similar devices, the
sale and use of which shall be permitted at all times.
SECTION 2.
Council members, copy
need to preserve the
an emergency is made
as to consideration
regular meetings so
upon first reading as
1984.
ATTEST:
That upon written request of the Mayor or five
attached, to find and declare an emergency due to the
public health, peace, or safety, and such finding of
and declared requiring suspension of the Charter rule
and voting upon ordinances or resolution at three
that this ordinance is passed an shall e effect
an emergency measure this the I2 ay of ,
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Secretary
APPROVED:
DAY OF , 1984
J. BRUCE AYCOCK, CITY ATTORNEY
By
Assi• .nt City At orney
MAYOR
THE CITY 0 'CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS
18284
MICROFILMED
SEP 2 81984
•
Corpus Christi, Teas
/i7,44day of
TO THE MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL
Corpus Christi, Texas
, 1987
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,
Council Members
The above ordinance was
Luther Jones
Betty N. Turner
David Berlanga, Sr.
Welder Brown
Leo Guerrero
Dr. Charles W. Kennedy
Joe McComb
Frank Mendez
Mary Pat Slavik
Respectfully,
MAYOR
THE CIT" OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS
passed y the following vote:
18.284
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STATE OF TEXAS,
County of Nueces.
}SS:
PUBLISHER'S AFFIDAVIT
Before me, the undersigned, a Notary Public, this day personally came
'"MARGARET RAMAGE „ who being first duly sworn, according to law, says that he is the
..COMMIiNITX...RELATI N,S._S11FER.V.7S.OR. 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
NOTICE OF PASSAGE OF ORDINANCE • AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 18230
of which the annexed is a true copy, was published in Caller -Times Publishing Co. _ ^
on the._ 11ay of June _...._ 1984 and once each_._. day thereafter for one
consecutive.......... day
LINE Times.
$^_ 24.20
MARGARET 1 RAMAGE
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 19th
EDNA KOSTER
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Not Public, Nu es_County, Texas
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NOTICE Of PASSAGE OF
AM DING b DNANCEORANCE 4NO
18230 WHICH ADOPTED
THE STANDARD FIRE PRE-
VENTION CODE, 1992
EDITION WITH CERTAIN
1983 REVISIONS AND OTHER
CHANGES, TO PROVIDE AN
AMENDED DEFINITION OF
FIREWORKS, AND DECLAR-
ING,AN EMERGENCY.
Was passed and approved
by the Cny Council of the City
I of Corpus Christi, Texas on
1the 12th day of June, 1984.
,The full text of said ordlnance
Is available to the public In the
Office cif the City Secretary.
N • -Bill G. Read
City Secretary
Corpus Chnstl, Texaj