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ORDINANCE
AMENDING SECTION 18-1(b)(12), CODE OF ORDINANCES, CITY OF
CORPUS CHRISTI, REGARDING FIRE CODE FEES; 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 18-1(b)(12), Code of Ordinances, is amended by revising the Fire
Prevention Permit Fee Schedule to read as follows:
"Sec. 18-1. Fire prevention code.
"(b) Additions, deletions, and changes are made to the International Fire Code, 2003
Edition, and correlated to the appropriate paragraph numbers in the [International Fire
Codej as follows:
"(12) Sections 105.8--105.10 are added to read as follows:
"105.8 Fee Schedule. Applications for permits shall be accompanied by
the payment of fees in accordance with the Corpus Christi Fire Prevention
Permit Fee Schedule, as follows:
Corpus Christi Fire Department
Fire Prevention Permit Fee Schedule
Permit Fee
Fire/Arson reports
After Hours Inspection Surcharge
Airports, heliports and helistops
Assembly, A 1 or A 2
Automatic sprinklers, standpipes, and fire lines (testing)
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Fee
8 4.00
$ 0.10
per page
50.00
per hour
3 hour minimum
surcharge
100.00
annually
100.00
annually
100.00
per visit
INDEXED
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Churches (one time fee --no day care facility on premises)
67.00
100.00
Combustible fibers (storage and handling)
100.00
annually
Commercial Vent -a -Hood cleaning
50.00
annually
Compressed gas
100.00
annually
Cryogenic fluids
100.00
annually
Day care facilities (or similar short-term occupancies)
60.00
75.00
annually
Demolition wl explosives
250.00
per event
Dry cleaning plants
100.00
annually
Explosives, blasting agents and ammunition storage
150.00
annually
Extinguishing systems
60.00
100.00
per inspection
Fire alarm systems
75.00
per floor
Fire alarm systems (required 15,000 square foot zones)
75.00
per zone
Fireworks display (aerial)
250.00
per display
Fireworks display (non -aerial)
150.00
per display
Flammable and combustible liquids
100.00
annually
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Flammable finishes
Foster homes and group homes
Fumigation and thermal insecticide fogging
Hazardous chemicals
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100.00
annually
&9: B9
75.00
annually
350.00
annually
100.00
annually
High piled combustible stock
High rise life safety system (testing before issuance of C. of 0.)
100.00
annually
200.00
per test
Hospitals and nursing homes (per bed)
Hospitals and nursing homes (per facility)
Liquified natural gas
250.00
per facility
plus
1.20
per bed
250.00
annually
100.00
annually
Liquified petroleum gas
100.00
annually
Lumber storage
100.00
annually
Mechanical refrigeration
Open burning
60.00
100.00
annually
150.00
300.00
per day
Organic coatings
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100.00
annually
Plans review
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Pressure test (fuel storage tanks and/or product lines)
Repair garages
150.00
per review
100.00
per visit
Restaurants (facilities that accommodate 100 or less occupants)
Restaurants (facilities that accommodate more than 100
occupants)
Special Events Permits
100.00
annually
75,00
100.00
annually
100.00
annually
Exhibits/Shows
100.00
Flame Effects
Visual Inspection
150.00
Special handling fee (less than 24 -hours' notice)
50.00
Tank vehicles for flammable and combustible liquids
Tents andair supported structures
Tire rebuilding plant
100.00
per inspection
100.00
annually
75.00
annually
Underground/aboveground fuel tanks (installation and removal)
Wrecking yard, junkyard or waste handling
100.00
annually
100.00
per inspection
100.00
annually
"105.9 Applications and fees required for failure to pass inspections. If a
site does not meet the standards for issuance of a permit after the first
inspection-twe-(2)-1-nspeetiens, the applicant must submit a new
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application and pay a permit fee before any subsequent inspections will be
conducted.
"105.10 Burning permits. Burning permits will not be issued unless both
fire prevention and environmental control division approve the material to
be burned."
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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 ordinajce was read for he first time and passed to its second
reading on this the t...?/a-‘day of , 2010, by the following vote:
Joe Adame Priscilla Leal
Chris N. Adler John E. Marez
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Brent Chesney a Nelda Martinez
Larry R. Elizondo, Sr. Mark Scott
Kevin Kieschnick
That the regoing ordinance was read for the second time and passed finally on this
the „Q-= day of , 2010, by the following vote:
Joe Adame
Chris N. Adler
Brent Chesney
Larry R. Elizondo, Sr.
Kevin Kieschnick
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Priscilla Leal
John E. Marez
Nelda Martinez
Mark Scott
PASSED AND APPROVED, this the QZXday of
ATTEST:
Armando Chapa
City Secretary
APPROVED: 8TH day of July, 2010:
R. ,.y R -ening
F st A- istant City Attorney
For City Attorney
2010-2011 FIRE CODE FEE ORDINANCE 07082010A
Joe Adam
Mayor
028691,
, 2010.
EFFECTIVE DATE
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