HomeMy WebLinkAbout029707 ORD - 01/08/2013Ordinance
Amending section 33 -75 of the Corpus Christi Code by clarifying the
area where discharge of firearm is prohibited, clarifying unlawful act,
clarifying areas where waterfowl hunting is not allowed within 1,000
feet; providing an effective date; 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 Sec. 33 -75 is revised to read as follows:
Sec. 33 -75. - Discharging firearms; waterfowl hunting.
(a) It shall-be is unlawful for any unauthorized person to fire or discharge any gun, pistol,
rifle or other firearm of any description within the city limits as they existed on August
31, 1981. ,
(b) However, except as restricted by subsection (c) of this section, waterfowl hunting within
the lawful seasons and during the times prescribed by any federal and state agencies with
jurisdiction over the taking of waterfowl, subject to the rules and regulations of federal
and state agencies of appropriate jurisdiction, and the discharge of firearms, subject to
such state law, rules, and regulations, shall be permitted lawful within the city in the
following described areas: Corpus Christi Bay, Nueces Bay, and the Upper Laguna
Madre within the corporate limits. (For the purposes of this section, anyone on the
waterside of the vegetation line is considered to be within Corpus Christi Bay or Upper
Laguna Madre.
(c)
It is unlawful to engage in waterfowl hunting as
allowed in subsection (b) within one thousand (1,000) feet of a residence; business
establishment; industrial facility, school; institution of higher education; other structure
designed for residential or commercial occupation (but not including storage sheds,
hunting/fishing camps, pump facilities); dock appurtenant to a residential or commercial
structure (other than those associated with a hunting/fishing camp or oil /gas field
production installation); trailer or recreational vehicle park; military installation; any
public beach; any city, county, state, or federal park; the JFK Causeway, causeway
between Flour Buff and North Padre Island Park Road 22 /South Padre Island Drive from
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east of Laguna Shores Road to the eastern side of the bridge; the Nueces Bay Causeway,
U.S. Highway 181 causeway between Corpus Christi and Portland from the Portland -
Corpus Christi city limits on the north to North Beach on the south; the Laguna Shores
shoreline adjacent to Laguna Shores Road; or the corporate limits of another municipality
that prohibits the discharge of firearms within its city limits.
SECTION 2. The effective date of this ordinance is the date of final City Council
approval.
SECTION 3. 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 4. Publication shall be made one time in the official publication of the City of
Corpus Christi as required by the City Charter of the City of Corpus Christi.
That the foregoing or� e was ead for the first time and. passed to its second
reading on this the ay of el', ZOf 2.,,by the following vote:
Nelda Martinez
Kelley Allen
Rudy Garza
Priscilla Leal
David Loeb
Chad Magill
Colleen McIntyre
Lillian Riojas
Mark Scott
That t foregoing ordinance was read for the second time and passed finally on this
the �" day of ,�"�' �" ;1 z0 , by the following vote:
Nelda Martinez
Kelley Allen
Rudy Garza
Priscilla Leal
David Loeb
PASSED AND APPROVED, this the 2Sday of
ATTEST:
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Chad Magill
Colleen McIntyre
Lillian Riojas
Mark Scott
Armando Chapa Nelda Martinez
City Secretary
Mayor