HomeMy WebLinkAbout025704 ORD - 04/13/2004AN ORDINANCE
AMENDING SECTION 1-6 OF THE CODE OF ORDINANCES RE-
LATING TO GENERAL PENALTIES;ENACTING SUBSECTION1-6.1
RELATING TO CONTINUING VIOLATIONS; PROVIDING FOR
SEVERANCE;ANDPROVlDING FOR PUBLICATION.
BElT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OFTHE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI,
TEXAS, THAT:
SECTION 1. Section 1-6 of the City Code of Ordinances is revised to read as follows:
"Sec. 1-6. General penalty; ~'--*:",," .... :'-'~*;--
"(a) Whenever in this Code or in any ordinance of the city City an act is prohibited, er is
made or declared to be unlawful, e¢ an offense~ or a misdemeanor, or wherever in such
this Code or in any ordinance the doing of any act is required or the failure to do any act
is declared to be unlawful, an offense, or a ' ,A,~, ....... ,,,, ~
misdemeanor, ....... ,, .....
.... i,,, ~ ...... u ~ ..... ~ll U~ *~ ....... ¢:w~ ~,, mm~ I .... the violation of the
provision of this Code or the ordinance is punishable by a fine.
"(b} Where the offense is one for which a penalty or fine is set by State law, the penalty
or fine for the offense is the penalty or fine as set by State law.
"(c) Where the maximum fine or penalty authorized by State law is higher than fve
hundred dollars ($500.00), the maximum penalty or fine for the offense is the penalty or
fine authorized by State law.
"(d) The fine for a violation of an ordinance, rule, or police re.qulation that qoverns fire
safety, zoning, or public health and sanitation, including dumping of refuse, may not
exceed two thousand dollars ($2,000.00).
"(e} The maximum fine for any other offense or violation of the Code of Ordinances or
an ordinance of the City is five hundred dollars ($500.00).
SECTION 2. Section 1-6.1 of the City Code of Ordinances is enacted to read as
follows:
"Sec. 1-6.1. Continuing violations.
"Unless otherwise provided, each day any violation of this Code or any ordinance of th~.
City continues constitutes a separate offense."
SECTION 3. If, for any reason, any section, paragraph, subdivision, clause, phrase,
word, or provision of this ordinance is held invalid or unconstitutional by final judgment
of a court of competent jurisdiction, it will not affect any other section, paragraph, sub-
division, clause, phrase, word, or provision of this ordinance, for it is the definite intent of
the City Council that every section, paragraph, subdivision, phrase, word, and provision
of this Ordinance be given full force and effect for its purpose.
SECTION 4. Publication of this ordinance is to be made in the official publication of the
City of Corpus Christi as required by the City Charter of the City of Corpus Christi,
Texas.
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Corpus Christi, Texas
The foregoing ordinance was read for, the first time and passed to its second reading on
this the '~0'ff- day of ~'~)O,,C,~,~~- ,2004, by the following vote:
Samuel L. Neal, Jr.
Brent Chesney
Javier D. Colmenero
Melody Cooper
Henry Garrett
/~ L4.~- Bill Kelly
~/"~ Rex A. Kinnison
~ Jesse Noyola
Mark Scott
Brent Chesney
Javier D. Colmenero
Melody Cooper
Henry Garrett
The foreaoing ordinance~vas r~ad for
the /-')2~q'- day of
Samuel L Neal, Jr.
PASSED AND APPROVED on the I~'~
ATTEST:
Armando Chapa
City Secretary
Elizabe/t~ R. Hundley
Assist~t City Attorney
for the City Attorney
the second time and passed finally on this
,2004, by the following vote:
Bill Kelly
Rex A. Kinnison
Jesse Noyola
Mark Scott
day of /g ,2004.
CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI
Mayor
2004
State of Texas
County of Nueces
PUBLISHER'S AFFIDAVIT
CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI
Ad # 4868058
PO #
Before me, the undersigned, a Notary Public, this day personally came Diana
Hinoiosa, who being first duly sworn, according to law, says that she is Credit
Manager of the Corpus Christi Caller-Times, a daily newspaper published at
Corpus Christi in said City and State, generally circulated in Aransas, Bee,
Brooks, Duval, Jim Hogg, Jim Wells, Karnes, Kenedy, Kleberg, Live Oak,
Nueces, Refugio, San Patricio, Victoria and Webb Counties, and that the
publication of, NOTICE OF PASSAGE OF ORDINANCE NO. which the annexed
is a true copy, was inserted in the Corpus Christi Caller-Times and on the World
Wide Web on the Caller-Times Interactive on the 19TH day(s) of APRIL, 2004.
$61.75
TWO (2) Time(s)
Credit Manager
Subscribed and sworn to me on the date of
APRIL 20, 2004.
Notary Public, Nueces County, Texas
ROSA MARIA FLORES
Print or Type Name of Notary Public
My commission expires on 04/23/05.
DIO/Coq:N~ Cl'~efl Caller-'l~mes, Monday,
NOI~CE OF PASSAGE
OF ORDINANCE NO
025704
ol Ihe Code
enacting Subsection 1-
6.1 relating
This ordinance wai
ps.ad and approved
by ~e City Council
~ City of Corpus
~ on A~ofil 13,
2004.
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C~y
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