HomeMy WebLinkAbout031163 ORD - 05/30/2017 Ordinance amending Chapter 55, Section 55-22, of the Code of
Ordinances to eliminate the assessment of an administrative utility
account transfer fee when related to a relocation of the customer due
to a government-funded project; and providing for severance,
publication, and an effective date.
WHEREAS, Section 55-22 of the City's Code of Ordinances ("Code") requires
the City's Utility Business Office to charge a $25 administrative utility account transfer
fee each time an existing customer moves locations within the city regardless if the
displacement and move from one location to another is necessitated due to a govern-
ment project;
WHEREAS, the City Council desires to eliminate the assessment of the admini-
strative transfer fee under the narrow circumstances of this amendment; and
WHEREAS, the City Council finds that this action is beneficial and necessary for
the continued operation of an efficient, effective, and comprehensive City-wide utility
system.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS
CHRISTI, TEXAS:
Section 1. The City Council specifically finds that the foregoing statements included in
the preamble of this ordinance are true and correct and adopts such findings for all
intents and purposes related to the amendment of the Code.
Section 2. Section 55-22 of the City's Code of Ordinances is amended by inserting
new language in subsection (b) where necessary, as follows:
"Sec. 55-22. - Application or contract for service.
"(a) The utility business office accounts manager is authorized to establish
procedures to process and accept applications for utility service.
"(b) An application or connection fee of twenty-five dollars ($25.00) is required
for all applications for new service or transfers of service. However, no transfer
fee will be assessed if the customer's request to transfer service is necessary
due to a mandatory displacement caused by a federal-, state-, or City-funded
project."
Section 3. It is hereby declared to be the intention of the City Council that the phrases,
clauses, sentences, paragraphs, and sections of this ordinance are severable, and if
any phrase, clause, sentence, paragraph, or section in this ordinance is declared invalid
or unconstitutional by final decree or judgment of any court, such invalidity or
unconstitutionality shall not affect any of the remaining phrases, clauses, sentences,
paragraphs, and sections of this ordinance since the same would have been enacted by
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the City Council without the incorporation into this ordinance of any such invalid or
unconstitutional phrase, clause, sentence, paragraph, or section.
Section 4. The City Secretary is directed to publish this ordinance in the official
newspaper of the City of Corpus Christi in accordance with the requirements of the City
Charter and State law.
Section 5. This ordinance takes effect following final passage and publication as
required by law.
The foregoinorinance was read for the first time and passed to its second reading on
this the r�:r `''day of `' QtAi..s , 2017, by the following vote:
Joe McComb Ben Molina
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Rudy Garza I.' ! Lucy Rubio 10
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Paulette Guajardo /. Greg Smith it _ 2Michael Hunter ' II Carolyn Vaughn if 4
Council Member
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The foregoing,ordinance was read for the second time and passed finally on
this the ?;(0day of t.,. , 2017, by the following vote:
Joe McComb , ,, Ben Molina
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PASSED AND APPROVED this the day of 6, , 2017
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NOTICE OF PASSAGE OF
ORDINANCE(S)
NO. 031163, Ordinance
amending Chapter 55, Sec-
tion 55-22, of the Code of
Ordinances to eliminate the
assessment of an adminis-
trative utility account trans-
fer fee when related to a
relocation of the customer
due to a government-fund-
ed project; and providing
for severance, publication,
and an effective date. This
ordinance was passed and
approved on second reading
by the Corpus Christi City
Council on May 30,2017.
/s/Rebecca Huerta
City Secretary
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