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Home My WebLink About10116 ORD - 02/17/19712/17/71 AN ORDINANCE AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 9499, GENERALLY REFERRED TO AS "THE ELECTRICAL LICENSING ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI ", PASSED ON SEPTEMBER 24, 1969, AS AMENDED, BY AMENDING SECTION 2 -1 AND SECTION 2 -1A TO HEREAFTER PROVIDE FOR ALL PERSONS HAVING EXISTING CONTRACTS FOR ELECTRICAL WORK AND WITHOUT CITY MASTER'S LICENSES WILL BE PERMITTED TO APPLY FOR PERMITS UNTIL FEBRUARY 27, 1971. THROUGH FEBRUARY 26, 1971, ANY MASTER'S LICENSE ISSUED BY ANY RECOGNIZED GOVERNMENTAL SUBDIVISION WILL BE ACCEPTABLE, IF VERIFIABLE BY THE CITY ELECTRICAL INSPECTOR, FOR PURPOSES OF OBTAINING CITY ELEC- TRICAL PERMITS AND PURSUING SAID WORK THEREUNDER UNTIL COMPLETION; REPEALING ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT HEREWITH; PROVIDING A SAVING CLAUSE; PROVIDING FOR PUBLICATION; AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS: SECTION 1. THAT ORDINANCE No. 9499, GENERALLY REFERRED TO AS "THE ELECTRICAL LICENSING ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI ", PASSED ON SEPTEMBER 24, 1969, AS AMENDED, BE AND THE SAME IS HEREBY AMENDED BY AMENDING SECTION 2 -1 AND 2 -1(A): LICENSE REQUIRED: TO HEREAFTER READ AS FOLLOWS: "SECTION 2 -1: LICENSE REQUIRED: IT SHALL BE UNLAWFUL FOR ANY PERSON TO ENGAGE IN THE BUSINESS OF INSTALLING, MAINTAINING, ALTERING, OR REPAIRING ANY WIRING, FIXTURES OR EQUIPMENT USED FOR THE CONDUCTING OF ELECTRICITY FOR WHICH A PERMIT IS REQUIRED BY THE CORPUS CHRISTI ELECTRICAL CODE, NOR SHALL ANY PERSON, FIRM OR CORPORATION IN ANY MANNER UNDERTAKE TO EXECUTE SUCH WORK UNLESS SUCH PERSON, FIRM OR CORPORATION IS HOLDER OF A LICENSE AS REQUIRED HEREIN, EXCEPT AS PROVIDED IN SECTION 2 -14 OF THIS CHAPTER. "SECTION 2 -1(A): EVERY ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR MUST HAVE A CURRENT LICENSE AS A MASTER ELECTRICIAN. EVERY MASTER ELECTRICIAN MUST HAVE AND MAINTAIN AN ESTABLISHED PLACE OF BUSINESS AND SHALL HAVE A TELEPHONE AND A PERSON IN ATTENDANCE TO RECEIVE MESSAGES FROM THE ELECTRICAL INSPECTION SECTION OF THE CITY OR OTHER PERSONS CONCERNED DURING REGULAR BUSINESS HOURS, HEREAFTER, ALL PERSONS HAVING EXISTING CONTRACTS FOR ELECTRICAL WORK WILL BE PERMITTED TO APPLY FOR PERMITS UNTIL FEBRUARY 27, 1971. THROUGH FEBRUARY 26, 1971, ANY MASTER'S LICENSE ISSUED BY ANY RECOGNIZED GOVERNMENTAL 10116 t 4. SUBDIVISION WILL BE ACCEPTABLE, IF VERIFIABLE BY THE CITY ELECTRICAL INSPECTOR, FOR PURPOSES OF OBTAINING CITY ELECTRICAL PERMITS AND PURSUING SAID WORK THEREUNDER UNTIL COMPLETION." SECTION 2. THAT ALL ORDINANCES OR PARTS OF ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT HEREWITH ARE HEREWITH EXPRESSLY REPEALED. SECTION 3. IF FOR ANY REASON, ANY SECTION, PARAGRAPH, SUBDIVISION, CLAUSE, PHRASE, OR PROVISION OF THIS ORDINANCE SHALL BE HELD INVALID, IT SHALL NOT AFFECT ANY VALID PROVISIONS OF THIS OR ANY OTHER ORDINANCE OR CODE OF THIS CITY TO WHICH THESE RULES AND REGULATIONS RELATE. SECTION 4. PUBLICATION SHALL-BE MADE ONE TIME IN THE OFFICIAL PUB- LICATION OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, WHICH PUBLICATION SHALL CONTAIN THE CAPTION STATING IN SUBSTANCE THE PURPOSE OF THE ORDINANCE. SECTION 5.. THE NECESSITY TO ADOPT THE HEREINABOVE DESCRIBED PRO- VISION AT THE EARLIEST PRACTICABLE DATE CREATES A PUBLIC EMERGENCY AND AN IMPERATIVE PUBLIC NECESSITY REQUIRING THE SUSPENSION OF THE CHARTER RULE THAT NO ORDINANCE OR RESOLUTION SHALL BE PASSED FINALLY ON THE DATE OF ITS INTRODUCTION AND THAT SUCH ORDINANCE OR RESOLUTION SHALL BE READ AT THREE SEVERAL MEETINGS OF THE CITY COUNCIL, AND THE MAYOR HAVING DECLARED THAT SUCH EMERGENCY AND NECESSITY EXIST, AND HAVING REQUESTED THAT SUCH CHARTER RULE BE SUSPENDED, AND THAT THIS ORDINANCE BE PASSED FINALLY ON THE DATE OF ITS INTRODUCTION AND TAKE EFFECT AND BE IN FULL FORCE AND EFFECT FROM AND N AFTER ITS PASSAGE AND PUBLICATION, IT IS ACCORDINGLY SO ORDAINED, THIS THE I / / /J DAY OF FEBRUARY, 1971. • ATTEST: CITY. SEC ETARY MAYOR THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS APPROVED: /!/ DAY OF 1971: ,T ATTORN Corpus Christi, Texas //v-/c_ day of TO THE MEMBERS OF TILE CITY COUNCIL Corpus Christi, Texas For the reasons set forth in the emergency clause of the foregoing ordinance, a public emergency and imperative necessity exist for th.e suspen- sion of the•Charter rule or requirement that no ordinance or resolution shall be passed finally on the date it is introduced, and that such ordinance or resolution shall be read at three meetings of the City Council; I, therefore, request that you suspend said Charter rule or requirement and pass this ordi- nance finally on the date it is introduced, or at the present meeting of the City Council. Respectfully, • THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS The Charter rule was suspended by the following vote: Jack R. Blackmon - Gabe Lozano, Sr. - �/ e V. A. "Dick "Bradley, Jr. C ,e- Eduardo E. de Ases _ Ken McDaniel W. J. "Wrangler" Roberts G2.,47L-e___ Ronnie Sizemore The above ordinance was passed by the following vote: Jack R. Blackmon Gabe Lozano, Sr. V. A. "Dick" Bradley, Jr. Eduardo E. de Ases cl(✓ Ken McDaniel W. J. °Wrangler" Roberts Ronnie Sizemore PASSEO F O EMCERR I T 26, 1969, AS AMENDED, BY AMENDING SECTION 21 AND SECTION 2.1A TO HEREAFTER PROVIDE FOR ALL PERSONS HAVING EXISTING CONTRACTS FOR ELECTRICAL WORK AND WITHOUT CITY MASTER'S LI- CENSES PP APPLY I FOR PERMITS TO S UN- TIL FEBRUARY 27, 1971, THROUGH FEBRUARY 26, 1971, ANY MASTER'S LICENSE IS- SUED BY ANY RECOGNIZED GOVERNMENTAL SUBDIVISION WILL BE ACCEPTABLE IF VERIFIABLE BY THE CITY ELECTRICAL INSPECTOR, FOR PURPOSES OF OBTAINING CITY ELECTRICAL PERMITS AND PURSUING SAID WORK OMPLE- CLAUSE; PRIOVIIDINGVFOR PUBLICATION; AND DECLAR. ING AN EMERGENCY WAS PASSED AND APPROVED by the City Council of the City of Corpus Christi, during the Regular Council Meeting 9 , and provides Met llIt shall take effect from and fter Its pas- s Be and publication, and that o pen- alty for violation shall be a fine bf Dt cxcoedIna Two Hundred (000,002 ollars ISSUED UNDER MY HAND AND SEAL of the City of Corpus Christi, Texas, this 18th day of February, 1971., T. RAY KRING, City Secretory City of Corpus Christi, Texas PUBLISHER'S AFFIDAVIT STATE OF TEXAS, tss: County of Nueces. 1 Before me, the undersigned, a Notary Public, this day personally came Leland G. Bares , who being first duly sworn, according to law, says that he is the .QZassifiad..Manager of the Corpus Christi Caller and The Corpus Christi Times, Daily Newspapers published at Corpus Christi, Texas, in said County and State, and that the publication of ...Legal - Natice...nf.- _pas�ae...nf �rsiinancs-- -Plo....1QLlb..amending ..urr3inancs.. -No. 9499 - The Electrical Licensing of which the annexed is a true copy, was published in Tinee I on the20.th. day of sahruary 19. %1••, and-once-eaeh thereafter-for- ". conseeutive- one Times. e / i��' re an G. Barnes, C . dv. Mgr. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 23rd , ay of February 19.7.1 ="' ��,e Louise Vick tary Public, Nueces County, Texas