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AN ORDINANCE
CONTINUING THE CURFEW ORDINANCE FOR MINORS, THE CODE OF
ORDINANCES, CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, SECTIONS 33-40,33-41,33-42
AND 33-43, AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.
WHEREAS the City Council of the City of Corpus Christi has previously
adopted ordinances relating to curfews for minors and found at Sections 33-40,
33-41, 33-42 and 33-43 of the Code of Ordinances, City of Corpus Christi; and
WHEREAS, as provided in Section 370.002 of the Texas Local
Government Code, the City Council must review the curfew ordinance every
three years to determine whether such ordinance should be abolished, continued
or modified; and
WHEREAS Corpus Christi continues to experience juvenile violence,
juvenile crime and juvenile gang activity, resulting in juveniles being involved in a
range of unacceptable behavior to include vandalism, assaults, public
consumption of alcoholic beverages, littering, illegal drug use and burglaries; and
WHEREAS persons under 17 years of age are particularly susceptible by
their lack of maturity and experience to participation in unlawful and potentially
harmful activities, and to becoming victims of other perpetrators of crime, and
Corpus Christi has no more important resource than its young people; and
WHEREAS a lack of parental supervision and guidance contributes to
unacceptable levels of juvenile violence, crime and gang activity, and parental
responsibility needs to be supported; and
WHEREAS attendance at school by minors is vital to the community
because it helps prepare children to be responsible citizens, and a curfew during
school hours reduces distractions and alternatives which induce non-attendance
and activities detrimental to minors and to the community, and compliments laws
compelling school attendance and discourages violations of those laws; and
WHEREAS it is necessary for the City of Corpus Christi to exercise its
authority to protect minors from each other and from other persons, to promote
parental control and responsibility for children, to supplement state truancy laws,
to protect the general public, and to reduce juvenile criminal and delinquent
activities; and
WHEREAS the City Council determines, pursuant to the above findings,
that the public health and safety demands continuation of the ordinance
establishing a curfew for minors,
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NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF
THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS, THAT:
SECTION 1. The curfew ordinance found at Sections 33-40, 33-41, 33-42, and
33-43 of the Code of Ordinances, City of Corpus Christi, is hereby continued.
SECTION 2. Upon written request of the Mayor or five Council Members, the
City Council (1) finds and declares an emergency due to the need for immediate
action for the efficient and effective administration of City affairs; and (2)
suspends that Charter rule which requires an ordinance to be considered and
voted upon at two regular meetings, so that this ordinance is passed and takes
effect as an emergency measure upon its first reading, this, the 8'f1'- day of
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ATTEST:
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THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI
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Mayor t>,.o T.Q.fY"\
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Mary Kay Fischer
City Attorney
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Rap(d'y A. Stoneroad
Assistant City Attorney
EFFECTIVE DATE
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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 attached ordinance, an
emergency exists requiring suspension of that Charter rule which requires an
ordinance to be considered and voted upon at two regular meetings. Therefore,
I/we request that you suspend said Charter rule and finally pass this ordinance
on the date of its introduction, or at the present meeting of the City Council.
Respectfully,
Respectf~lIy,
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Mayer, City of orpus Chris'
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Council Members
The above ordinance was passed by the following vote:
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Brent Chesney
Javier D. Colmenero
Henry Garrett
Bill Kelly
Rex A. Kinnison
Melody Cooper
Jesse Noyola
Mark Scott
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PUBLISHER'S AFFIDAVIT
State of Texas
County of Nueces
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CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI
Ad # 5124529
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Before me, the undersigned, a Notary Public, this day personally came Diana
Hinojosa, 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 14TH day(s) of FEBRUARY,
2005.
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SENIOR COLLECTOR
TWO (2 ) Time(s)
Subscribed and sworn to me on the date of
FEBRUARY 15,2005.
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Notary Public, Nueces County, Texas ~
ROSA MARIA FLORES
Print or Type Name of Notary Public
My commission expires on 04/23/05.
CALLER-TIMES. February 14, 2005. MondIy. 11 F
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NOTIOli OF p
OF OAOINANCE NO.
026141
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Is! Annando Chapa
City SeclNry
_City of Corpus Chrtsti
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