HomeMy WebLinkAbout02566 ORD - 07/26/1949AN ORDINANCE
AN ORDINANCE AU LADING ORDINANCE BEING ORDINANCE
NUMBER, 2204 AND ENTITLED. "AN ORDINANCE W5U1ATLNG
ELECTRIC 1TIRTIG "MT—rN THE CORPORATE LIMITS CF THE
CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS FOR SAFEGUARDING PERSONS
AND PROPER'T'Y AND PROMOTING THE YMYARE OF THE PUBLIC;
CREATING THE OFFICE OF CHIEF ELECTRICAL INSPECTOR
AND PRESCRIBING HIS DUTIES, RIGHTS AND AUTHORITY;
ESTABLISHING STAMARAS FOR ELECTRICAL EZUIFlMENT AND
FOR ITS INSTALLATION AND RIQUIRING CONFORMITY THERE -
AiTH; iifAAING ItIUNLAAFUL TO UNDERTAKE THE INSTALLATION
OF ELECTRICAL K,)ULL°MMENT 7TITHOUT A PM1IT THEREFOR,
EXCEPT AS OTHERVISE PROVIDED; PROVIDLNG FOR THE RE-
GISTRATION OF ELECTRICAL 3ORKER3 AND CONTRACTORS;
ESTABLISHING INSPECTION PMMIT FEES; PROVIDING PENALTIES
FOR THE VIOLATION OF THIS ORDINANCE AUD REPEALING
ORDINANCE IN CONFLICT -91TH THIS ORDINANCE," BY
AIMEADIdG SECTIONS 1 AND 2 OF CHAPTER 4 OF SAID ORDI-
NANCE 2204; AND DECLARING AA MTERGENCY.
WRER&S, the Electrical Ordinance of the City of Corpus
Christi does not contain provision for a member to be appointed on the
Examining and Supervisory Board of Electricians with the qualifications
of having general business experience in a supervisory or proprietary
capacity, and it is to the best interest of the public that a person with
such qualifications be added as a seventh member to said board,
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUTVCIL OF
THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS:
Section 1, That Ordinance 2204 entitled "AN ORDINANCE RE-
GULATING ELECTRIC WIRING 111'S_7'HIN THE CORPORATE LILS'CS OF THE CITY OF CORPUS
CHRISTI, T &".AS FOR SAFEGUARDING PERSONS AND PROPERTY AND PROMOTING THE Wa,-
FARE OF THE PUBLIC; ORFATI14G THE OFFICE OF CHIEF ELECTRICAL INSPECTOR AND
PRESCRIBING HIS DUTIES, RIGHTS AND AUTHORITY; ESTABLISHING STANDARDS FOR
ELECTRICAL EVIPMENT AND FOR ITS INSTALLATION AND REaU.IRING CONFORMITY
TRERENITH; MAIMIG IT UNLAWFUL TO UNDERTAKE THE INSTALLATION G,, ELECTRICAL
EZUIFMFN^, WITHOUT A PERMIT THEREFOR, EXCEPT AS OTHERWISE PROVIDED; PROVIDING
FOR THE REGISTRATION OF ELECTRICAL 'NOMMS AND CONTRACTORS; ESTABLISHING
INSPECTION PTfMIT FEES; PROVIDING PENALTIES FOR THE VIOLATION OF THIS ORDI-
NANCE AND R3PEALING ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT YITH THIS ORDINANCE, and adopted
on the 30th day of December 1947 be amended as to Sections 1 and 2 of Chapter
4 to read as follows:
"Section 4-1: EY,AMINING AND SUPERVISORY BOARD OF ELECTRICIANS
CREATED: There is hereby created the "Examining and Supervisory Board of Elec-
tricians" consisting of seven (7) persona. Said Board shall include four (4)
appointive members and three ex- officio members. The appointive members
shall be appointed by the Mayor and Council. The ex- officio members shall
be the Chief Electrical Inspector, the City Electrician and the Read of
Engineering and Construction Division or the Director of Public Works. The
Head of EEngineering and Construction Division and Director of Public Works
shall have, together or singly, one vote.
"Section 4-2: QUALIFICATIONS.- Persons who serve on the
Examining and Supervisory Hoard of Electricians as appointive members shall
be qualified as follows:
(a) One person shall have had at least ten (10) years active
experience as a Master Electrician.
(b) One person shall have had at least five (5) years active
experience as a journeyman Electrician.
(c) One person shall have had at least five (5) years ex-
perience as Electrical Engineer.
(d) One person shall have had business experience, super-
visory or proprietary, or experience closely related
thereto."
Section 2. All other provisions o£ said ordinance, No. 2204,
including all amendments heretofore adopted save and except as herein amended,
be continued in full force and effect.
Section 3. The fact that it is to the best interest of the
public that a person having qualifications of business experience, supervisory
or proprietary, be appointed as a member of said board creates a public emer-
gency and imperative public necessity requiring a suspension of the Charter
rule providing that no ordinance or Resolution shall be passed finally on the
day it is introduced, and that such Ordinance or Resolution shall be read at
three several meetings of the City Council„ and the Mayor having declared that
such public emergency and imperative public necessik, exists, and having re-
quested that said Charter rule be suspended and that this Ordinancetake effect
and be in full force and effect from and after its passage, it is so ordained.
PASSED AND APPROVED this the a%(p day of July, A. D. 1949.
MA OR
City of Corpus Christi, Texas
ty Secret.-
ry
APPAS T� LSOAL FORM: -
V 70,1 ► i
rpus hristi, Texas
TO THE ELLS OF THE CITY COUNCIL
OF THE CITY. OF CORPUS CHRISTI
Gentlemen:
For the reasons set forth in the emergency clause of the fore-
going Ordinance, a public emergency and an imperative necessity exists
for the suspension 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 several meetings
of the City Council; I, therefore, hereby request that you suspend said
Charter rule or requirement and pass this Ordinance finally on the date
it is introduced, or at the present meeting of the City Council.
Respectfully,
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City of Corpus Christi, Texas
The Charter rule was suspended by the following vote:
Leslie Wasserman ////���
Jack DeForrest
Barney Cott
Sydney E. Herndon
George L. Lowman (61,
The above Ordinance was passed by the fo owing votes
Leslie Wasserman 0 —
Jack DeForrest
Barney Cott
Sydney E. Herndon
George L. Lowman
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