HomeMy WebLinkAbout020417 ORD - 08/02/1988AN ORDINANCE
AMENDING THE CITY CODE, CHAPTER 17, FINANCE AND TAXATION,
SECTION 17-1.2, SERVICE CHARGE FOR RETURNED CHECKS, BY
INCREASING SAID FEE FROM $10.00 TO $15.00; AMENDING
CHAPTER 55, UTILITIES, SECTION 55-38, CUSTOMERS' CHECKS,
RELATING TO NONPAYMENT OF CHARGES UNDER SECTION 17-1.2;
PROVIDING FOR SEVERANCE; AND PROVIDING FOR PUBLICATION.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI,
TEXAS:
SECTION 1. That the City Code, Chapter 17, Finance and Taxation,
Section 17-1.2, Service charge for returned checks, is hereby amended to read as
follows:
In addition to any other authorized penalty or interest, there is
hereby established a service charge of fifteen dollars ($15.00) for
any checks returned as nonnegotiable/noncashable to any department,
division, or entity of the city.
SECTION 2. That the City Code, Chapter 55, Utilities, Section 55-38,
Customers' checks, be amended to read as follows:
Any customer issuing a check to the city for payment of a utility
account shall be charged for the handling of said check if the check
is returned as nonnegotiable/noneashable by the city's bank of deposit
for reason of no funds, account closed or for any other reason. The
nonpayment of such charge authorized under Section 17-1.2 could result
in the service being disconnected and the customer's deposit applied
against the services.
SECTION 3. 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 by publishing the caption stating in
substancethepurpose of the ordinance, this ordinance to become effective upon
such publication.
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20417 MICROFILMED
That the foregoing ordinance was read for the first time and passed to its
second reading on this the /341i day of �, 19 ge by the
following vote:
Betty N. Turner (311 Bill Pruet 6LL41.0:
David Berlanga, Sr. CLCI -/ Mary Rhodes dit-1„
Leo Guerrero th-P Frank Schwing, Jr.
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Clif Moss at7L, Mary Pat Slavik aLel
Linda Strong "(_,,
That the foregoing ordinance was read for the second time and passed to its
third reading on this the c04 day of j 19 ? ? , by the
following vote:
Betty N. Turner
David Berlanga, Sr.
Leo Guerrero (241_
Clif Moss 0,14
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Bill Pruet
Mary Rhodes
Frank Schwing, Jr.
Mary Pat Slavik
Linda Strong
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That the foregoing ordippnce was read for the third time and passed finally on
this the 0day of ,,ttG 19 by the following vote:
Betty N. Turner
David Berlanga, Sr.
Leo Guerrero
Clif Moss
Bill Pruet
10.Mary Rhodes
Frank Schwing, Jr.
Mary Pat Slavik
Linda Strong
PASSED AND APPROVED, this the JAI_ day of
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City Secretary YOR
APPROVED:
3O4DAY OF , 19p$
HAL GEORGE, CITY ATTORNEY
By
Assistant City Attorne
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99.044.01
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THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS
2041'7
PUBLISHER'S AFFIDAVIT
State of Texas, ] CITY OF C C
County of Nueces 3 ss: Ad # 69634
Before me, the undersigned, a Notary Public, this day personally came
Iris Yap, who being first duly sworn, according to law, says
that she is a Senior Accounting Clerk of the Corpus Christi Caller -
Times, a daily newspaper published at Corpus Christi in said County
and State, generally circulated in Aransas, Bee, Brooks, Cameron,
Duval, Hidalgo, Jinn Hogg, Jim Wells, Karnes, Kenedy, Kleberg, Live
Oak, Refugio, San Patricio, and Victoria Counties, and that the
ptiblication of"NOTICE OF PASSAGE OF ORDINANCE '#20417 "of
which the annexed is a true copy, was published in the Corpus Christi
Caller -Times on the 8TH day of August, '1988 and each day there-
after for consecutive day(s)
One Time$
$37.80
Su•-�. ibe orn to before me this _19th day of August 1988
.A.A...AA
Senior Accountin
Clerk
EPA KOSTER
Notary Public, s County, Texas
My commission expires on 11.80.1988