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Home My WebLink About10636 ORD - 12/29/1971AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER XXIX OF THE BUILDING CODE, ADOPTED BY ORDINANCE NO. 10379, AND PARTICULARLY AS ADOPTED BY SECTION 2 OF ORDINANCE NO. 9672, BY REPEALING THE SAME AND IN LIEU THEREOF, ADOPTING A NEW CHAPTER XXIX SO AS TO REQUIRE THAT RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS, INCLUDING MOBILE HOMES, HAVE A MINIMUM FIRST FLOOR ELEVATION OF 12 FEET; MAKING VIOLATIONS A MISDEMEANOR PUNISHABLE BY FINE NOT EXCEEDING $200; PROVIDING FOR PUBLICATION; PROVIDING A SAVINGS CLAUSE, AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS: SECTION 1. That Chapter XXIX of the Building Code, adopted by Ordinance No. 10379, and particularly as adopted by Section 2 of Ordinance No. 9672, be and the same is hereby repealed in its entirety, and in lieu thereof, there is hereby adopted a new Chapter XXIX of the Building Code, to hereafter read as follows: "CHAPTER XXIX. All buildings or structures, except those classified as Group 'A' - Residential Occupancy, shall have a minimum floor elevation of seven feet (7') above mean tide level as established by the U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey Bench Mark Datum. -All buildings classified as Group 'A' - Residential Occupancy, and all occupied mobile homes shall have a minimum first floor elevation of twelve feet (12') above mean tide level as established by the U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey Bench Mark Datum. In addition, all buildings or structures having a minimum first floor elevation less than twelve feet (12') shall be designed so as to minimize damage from wind and rising water and to safeguard utilities, and shall be designed by an architect or engineer legally registered under the laws of the State of Texas. Store front display windows and other windows larger than six (6) square feet in area in such buildings or structures which are not protected by a seawall of at least twelve feet (121) elevation shall be protected by a removable storm protection readily installable, designed to withstand the action of wind and rising water." SECTION 2. That paragraph 2 - General of Appendix "I" of the Building Code, adopted by Ordinance No. 10379, and particularly as adopted by Ordinance No. 10096, be amended to read as follows: 1 AR 106.36 . rs. �. 2..:..... �,,. a.». *�rgrtS.,RSa.,R „nv.•�.,e»wc... r... ��s.a�. ,s.-au. :• i_an rva�.. ... , „ . - �.v,,.. �,i Tr 112 - General. Mobile homes shall comply with the Standard for Mobile Homes, ANSI A119.1, 1969, and the amendments herein. Mobile Homes shall comply with the minimum first floor elevation requirements established in Chapter XXIX.” SECTION 3. Any person, firm, or corporation violating the terms of this ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon convic- tion, shall be fined in a sum not to exceed $200.00. SECTION 4. Publication shall be made in the official publication of the City of Corpus Christi, one time, which publication shall contain the caption stating in substance the purpose of the ordinance and reciting the penalty for violation of the ordinance. SECTION 5. •If for any reason any section, paragraph, subdivision, clause, phrase, or provision of this ordinance shall be held invalid by final judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction, it shall not affect any valid provisions of this or any other ordinance of the City of Corpus Christi to which these rules and regulations relate. SECTION 6. The immddiate necessity to amend the Building Code as hgreinabove provided 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 such public emergency and neces- sity to 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. after its passage andApublication, IT IS ACCORDINGLY SO ORDAINED, this the_gf day of l�7 , ATTE 7V:,:", A, CRY secretAry APP VED: 2-q DAY OF daLe , 197 City Attorney 0 o MAYOR THE CITY OF UaUS CHRISTI, TEXAS CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS L ! DAY OF TO THE MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS FOR THE REASONS SET FORTH IN THE EMERGENCY CLAUSE OF THE FOREGOING ORDINANCES A PUBLIC EMERGENCY A14D IMPERATIVE NECESSITY EXIST FOR THE SUSPEN- SION OF THE CHARTER RULE OR REQUIREMENT THAT NO ORDINANCE OR RESOLUTION SHALL DE 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. 2SPECTFU, MAYOR THE CITY OF CORP CHRISTI, TEXAS THE CHARTER RULE WAS SUSPENDED BY THE FOLLOWING VOTE: RONNIE SIZE14ORE CHARLES A. BONNIWELL I, F �%_ ROBERTO B0S4UE2, M.D. REV. HAROLD T. BRANCH THOMAS V. GONZALES GABE LOZANO, SR. J. HOWARD STARK_ / //`R�.'. THE ABOVE ORDINANCE WAS PASSED BY THE FOLLOWING•VOTE: RONNIE SIZEMORE CHARLES A. BONNIWELL ROBERTO BOSQUEZ, M.D. REV. HAROLD T. BRANCH THOMAS V. GONZALES GABE LOZANO, SR. J. HOWARD STARK THAT THE FOREGOING ORDINANCE WAS READ FOR _ THE FIRST "'TIME AND PASSED TO ITS SECOND READING ON THIS THE '[ DAY OFD tzxl_l..(�t.L�t/19J&_l BY THE FOLLOWING VOTE: RONNIE 31ZEMORE CHARLES A. BONNIWELL ROBERTO BOSQUEZ REV. HAROLD T. BRANCH THOMAS V. GONZALES • GABE LOZANO, $R. J. HOWARD STARK THAT THE FOREGOING ORDINANCE WAS READ FOR THE SECOND TIME AND PASSED TO ITS THIRD READING ON THIS THE DAY OF 19 , BY THE FOLLOWING VOTE: RONNIE• SIZEMORE CHARLES A. BONNIWELL ROBERTO BOSQUEZ REV. HAROLD T. BRANCH THOMAS V. GONZALES GABE LOZANO, SR. J. HOWARD STARK THAT THE FOREGOING ORDINANCE WAS READ FOR THE THIRD TIME AND PASSED FINALLY ON THIS THE DAY OF 19 , BY THE FOLLOWING VOTE: RONNIE SIZEMORE CHARLES A. BONNIWELL ROBERTO BOSQUEZ REV. HAROLD T. BRANCH ' THOMAS V. GONZALES GABE LOZANO, SR. J. HOWARD STARK PASSED AND APPROVED, THIS THE DAY OF 19 ATTEST: CITY SECRETARY APPROVED: DAY OF , 19J: ClyeTTORNEY MAYOR THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS PUBLISHER'S AFFIDAVIT r:• -^^� -' 'STATE OF TEXAS, Iss: ' 'w County of Nueces. Before me, the undersigned, a Notary Public, this day personally came ... ............................... . Leland-_ G.--- S3rnes -_- _____- __,•• ................ who being first duly sworn, according to law, says that he is the Qlaza fie -d, -M nag er .... ............................... of the Corpus Christi Caller and The Corpus Christi Times, Daily Newspapers published at Corpus Christi, Texas, in said County and State, and that the publication of Notice, of of ordinance no.- .10635 -=- amending the .platting Ordinance4Y�$ ---as required T ft� -cmntourti iri Both the preli>einary, as of which the annexed is a true copy, was published in . tktG... 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