HomeMy WebLinkAbout021080 ORD - 02/12/1991AN ORDINANCE
AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 021073 ORDERING AN ELECTION ON
APRIL 6, 1991, TO EXCLUDE A REFERENDUM ON UTILITY RATES
FOR WAIUt, GAS, AND WASIEWAIU(, AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.
WHEREAS, on January 29, 1991, the City Council of the City of Corpus
Christi, Texas, adopted Ordinance No. 021073, calling an election for April 6, 1991; and
WHEREAS, said ordinance should be amended;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF
THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS:
SECTION 1. That Section 4 of said Ordinance No. 021073 (ordering an
election to be held on the question of whether Ordinance No. 21001 should be repealed)
is hereby repealed, and said matter shall not appear on the April 6, 1991, ballot.
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 purposes.
SECTION 3. The fact that it is necessary and essential that the governing
body of the City of Corpus Christi shall order elections pertaining to municipal affairs, that
the notice of such election should be timely posted and published, and that the requirements
of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 may be timely met, and immediate action is necessary for
the efficient and effective administration of the City's affairs to comply with all applicable
laws, creates a public emergency and an imperative public necessity requiring the suspension
of the Charter rule that no ordinance shall be passed finally on the date of its introduction
but that such ordinance shall be read at three several meetings of the City Council, and the
Mayor, having declared that such emergency and necessity exist, having requested the
suspension of the Charter rule and that this ordinance be passed finally on the date of its
introduction and take effect and be in full force and effect from anc,after its passage, IT IS
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City Secretary
ORD3:91028
, 1991.
YOR
THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI
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APPROVED: $ DAY OF Fcb r.i wv I,t , 1911
JAMES R. BRAY, JR., INTERIM CITY ATTORNEY
ORD3:91028
Corpus Christi, Texas
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TO THE MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL
Corpus Christi, Texas
For the reasons set forth in the emergency clause of the foregoing
ordinance an emergency exists requiring suspension of the Charter rule
as to consideration and voting upon ordinances at three regular
meetings; I/we, therefore, request that you suspend said Charter rule
and pass this ordinance finally on the date it is introduced, or at
the present meeting of the City Council.
Respectfully, Respectfully,
Council Members
THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI
The above ordinance was passed by the following vote:
Betty N. Turner A49
Cezar Galindo 71(1
Leo Guerrero �D
Tom Hunt L Q
Edward A. Martin (L{ -)0_i
Joe McComb (lb -1Y
Clif Moss / p
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Mary Rhodes (YL-,(
Frank Schwing, Jr. lei'
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