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AN ORDINANCE
REVISING SECTION 16-4, CODE OF ORDINANCES, CITY OF CORPUS
CHRISTI, TO AUTHORIZE THE PRESIDING OFFICER TO WAIVE OR
REDUCE THE TECHNICAL CONSTRUCTION CODES FEES AFTER A
DECLARATION OF A LOCAL STATE OF DISASTER; PROVIDING FOR
SEVERANCE; AND PROVIDING FOR PUBLICATION.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI,
TEXAS, THAT:
SECTION 1. Section 16-4, Code of Ordinances, is revised to read as follows:
"Sec. 16-4. Authority to issue orders in the interest of public safety and welfare.
"(a) After the declaration of a local state of disaster, the presiding officer may in the
interest of public health, safety, and welfare, subject to confirmation or revocation by the
city council, issue proclamations, orders, or regulations, which shall have the force and
effect of law, to:
"(1) Evacuate all or part of the population of an area of the city that has been
stricken or is threatened, if necessary for the preservation of life or other disaster
mitigation, response, or recovery effort.
"(2) Prescribe routes, modes of transportation, and destinations in connection
with an evacuation.
"(3) Control ingress and egress to and from a disaster area and any areas that
may be adversely effected by riot, unlawful assembly, threat of violence, or an
imminent natural or man-made disaster, and may control the movement of
persons and the occupancy of premises in those areas.
"(4) Suspend or limit the sale, dispensing, or transportation of alcoholic
beverages, firearms, explosives, or combustibles, including fuel for vehicles.
"(5) Establish general or limited curfews and blockades, regulating or prohibiting
any person from being, remaining, loitering, or congregating on any street, alley,
park, public property, or any other place that may be specified.
"(6) Suspend or limit the use of utilities.
"(7) Implement other security measures necessary to protect life and secure
property.
"(8) Protect life and property by such means as are imminently necessary and
authorized under law.
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"(9) Suspend or modify the formal bidding requirements for purchase of goods
and services, as authorized by state law.
TO) Suspend or modify the requirements for an itinerant vendor's permit,
electrician license, and similar regulations so as to give due consideration to the
license, certificate, or other permit issued to a person by any state or any political
subdivision of any state evidencing qualifications for professional, mechanical, or
other skills, so that the person may render aid involving the skill to meet the
emergency or disaster.
"(11) Establish temporary emergency housing, for persons needing shelter,
notwithstanding any limitations in the zoning ordinance, or deed restrictions.
"(12) Establish temporary wage, price, and rent controls and other economic
stabilization methods.
"(13) Implement all or portions of the city's emergency management plan.
"(14) Waive or reduce the technical construction codes fees in Section 14-1313.
"(b) The mayor may delegate the authority to issue additional implementing orders,
which are necessary to carry out the mayor's orders and to protect the public health and
welfare, to the city manager or another official designated by the city manager.
"(c) The city council may continue, renew, enact, or terminate any of the measures
enumerated in subsection (b) (a) of this section."
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 of this ordinance be given full force and effect for its purpose.
SECTION 3. Publication shall be made in the official publication of the City of Corpus
Christi as required by the City Charter of the City of Corpus Christi.
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That the foregoing ordinnce was read for the first time and passed to its second
2009, by the following vote:
reading on this the day of
Joe Adame
Chris N. Adler
Brent Chesney
Larry Elizondo, Sr.
Kevin Kieschnick
Priscilla G. Leal
John E. Marez
Nelda Martinez
Mark Scott
That t. e f regoing o dinance was read for the second time and passed finally on this
the day of S , 2009, by the following vote:
Joe Adame
Chris N. Adler
Brent Chesney
Larry Elizondo, Sr.
Kevin Kieschnick
Priscilla G. Leal
John E. Marez
Nelda Martinez
Mark Scott
PASSED AND APPROVED, this the 64"-Oday of
ATTEST:
Armando Chapa
City Secretary
APPROVED: 7 -/47 day of
2009.
"41-(jine
Joe A�
Mayor
R. Jing
First Assistant City Attorney
For City Attorney
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PUBLISHER'S AFFIDAVIT
CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI
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Before me, the undersigned, a Notary Public, this day personally came
JENNIFER HOBBS, who being first duly sworn, according to law, says that she
is LEGAL SALES REPRESENTITIVE AND EMPLOYEE OF THE PUBLISHER,
namely, 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
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publication of, NOTICE OF PASSAGE OF ORDINANCE NO. which the
annexed is a true copy, was inserted in the Corpus Christi Caller -Times on the
8/31/2009, 8/31/2009.
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CAL • -TIMES g August 31, 2009 (t 5E
NOTICE OF
PASSAGE OF
ORDINANCE NO,
028279
Revising Section
16-4, Code of Ordi-
nances, City of
Corpus Christi, to au-
thorize the presiding
officer to waive or re-
duce the Technical
Construction Codes
Fees after a declara-
tion of a local state of
disaster; providing. for
publication. This ordi-
nance was passed
and approved by the
City Council of the
City of Corpus Christi
on August 25, 2009.
/s/ Armando Chapa
City Secretary.
City of Corpus Christi