HomeMy WebLinkAbout021167 ORD - 05/21/1991AN ORDINANCE
AMENDING CITY CODE SECTION 247 REGARDING THE SIX YEAR LIMIT
ON SERVICE OF BOARD, COMMISSION, AND COMMITTEE MEMBERS,
AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS
CHRISTI, TEXAS:
SECTION 1. That City Code Section 2-67, Limitations on appointments, is
hereby amended to read as follows:
Sec. 2-67. Limitations on appointments.
No person may serve as a voting member of a board, commission, or committee
of the city for a period longer than six (6) years consecutively unless such service
is required by virtue of the person's position or title as the result of employment
or to complete an unexpired term. No person shall be appointed by the mayor or
city council to serve on more than one board, commission or committee of the city
at the same time unless required by charter, statute or other ordinance or when
such service is required by virtue of the individual's position or title as the result
of employment.
The foregoing limitations do not apply to the appointment of advisory, nonvoting
members to a board, commission or committee of the city. Any such advisory,
nonvoting member appointed to a board, commission or committee of the city is
prohibited from serving as an elected or appointed officer of the board,
commission or committee to which such person has been appointed.
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 purpose.
SECTION 3. That upon written request of the Mayor or five Council members,
copy attached, to find and declare an emergency due to the need for the efficient and effective
administration of City affairs, such finding of an emergency is made and declared requiring
suspension of the Charter rule as to consideration and voting upon ordinances at three regular
meetings so that this ordinance is passed and shall take effect upon first reading as an
emergency measure this the 02 day of , 1991.
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ATTEST:
City Secretary
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APPROVED:
(l DAY OF /`1 wy , 1991
JAMES R. BRAY JR., CITY ATTORNEY
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CITY c C • ' ' US CHRISTI
Corpus Christi, Texas
ci' I day of
TO THE MEMBERS OF THE C1TY 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 above ordinance was passed by the following vote:
Mary Rhodes
Cezar Galindo
Leo Guerrero
Betty Jean Longoria
Edward A. Martin
Joe McComb
Dr. David McNichols
Clif Moss
Mary Pat Slavik
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