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Home My WebLink About02786 ORD - 05/31/19505/25/0 AN ORDINANCE AMENDING ORDINANCE NUMBER 2204, ENTITLED "AN ORDINANC E REGULATING ELECTRIC WIRING WITHIN THE CORPORATE LIMITS 0 CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS FOR SAFEGUARDING PERSONS AND PROPERTY AND PROMOTING THE WELFARE OF THE PUBLIC; CREATING THE OFFICE OF CHIEF ELECTRICAL INSPECTOR AND PRESCRIBING HIS DUMS, RICHTS AUTHO ; ESTABLISHING STANDARDS FOR ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT AND FOR ITS INSTALLATION AND REQUIRING CONFORMITY THEREWITH; MAKING IT UNLAWFUL TO UNDERTAKE THE IN- STALLATION OF ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT WITHOUT A PER- MIT THEREFOR, EXCEPT AS OTHERWISE PROVIDED; PRO - VIDING FOR TH'' REGISTRATION OF ELECTRICAL WORKERS AND CONTRACTORS; ES -B ISHING INSPECTION PERMIT FEESgING PENALTIES FOR THE V OLATION OF 1= ORDINANCE RE ING ORDINANC IN CON- FLICT WITH THIS ORDINANCE" AS THEREAFTER AMENDED AND NOW IN EFFECT, BY AMENDING SECTION 1 and 2 OF CHAPTER 4 - SECTION 4 -1 and SECTION 4 -2 - OF SAID ORDINANCE NO. 2204 AND AMENDMENTS THERETO; AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY. WHEREAS, The Electrical Ordinance of the City of Corpus Christi does not contain provision for sufficient number of members to be appointed on the Examining and Supervisory Board of Electricians with the qualifications of having general business experience in a supervisiory or proprietary capacity, and it is to the best interest of the public that a person with such quali- fications be added as an eighth member to said board: NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS: SECTION 1. That Ordinance No. 2204, adopted on the 30th day of December, 1947, entitled: "AN ORDINANCE REGULATING ELECTRIC WIRING WITHIN THE CORPORA'2E LIMITS OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS, FOR SAFEGUARDING PERSONS AND PROPERTY AND PROMOTING THE WEL- FARE OF THE PUBLIC; CREATING THE OFFICE OF CHIEF ELECTRICAL INSPECTOR AND PRESCRIBING HIS DUTIES, RIGHTS AND AUTHORITY; ESTABLISH- ING STANDARDS FOR ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT AND FOR ITS INSTALLATION AND REQUIRING CONFORMITY THEREWITH; MAKING IT UNLAWFUL TO UNDERTAKE THE INSTALLATION OF ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT WITHOUT A PERMIT THEREFOR, EXCEPT AS OTHERWISE PRO- VIDED; PROVIDING FOR THL REGISTRATION OF ELEC- TRICAL WORKERS AND CONTRACTORS; ESTABLISHING INSPECTION PERMIT FEES; PROVIDLgG PENALTIES FOR THE VIOLATION OF THIS ORDINANCE AND RE- PEALING ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT WITH THIS ORDIN- ANCE" as thereafter amended and now in effect, by amending Sections 1 and 2 of Chapter 4 - Section 4 -1 and Section 4 -2 - of said Ordinance No. 22011 and amendments thereto so as to hereafter read as follows: "Section 11 -1: EXAMINING AND SUPERVISORY BOARD OF ELECTRICIANS CREATED: There is hereby created the "Examining and Supervisory Board of Electricians" con- sisting of eight (8) persons. Said Board shall include five (5) appointive members and three ex-officio mem- bers. 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 Head of Engineering and Construction Division or the Director of Public 'Works. The Head of Engin- eering and Construction Division and Director of Public Works shall have, together or singly, one vote. "Section 4 -2: QUA,IFICATIONS: Persons who serve on the Examining and Supervisory Board of Electricians as appointive members shall be qualified as follows: (a) Two persons each of whom shall have had at TEN (10 least IM (J years active experience as a Master Electrician. (b) One person shall have had at least five (5) years active experience as a journeyman Elec- trician. (c) One person shall have had at least five (5) years experience as Electrical Engineer. (d) One person shall have had business experience, supervisory or proprietary, or experience close- ly related thereto." SECTION 2. All other provisions of 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 8 of the public that at least two (2) persons having experience as Master Electricians be appointed as members of said Board creates a public emergency and imperative public necessity re- quiring 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 impera- tive public necessity exists and having requested that said Charter rule be suspended and that this ordinance be passed finally on the day it is introduced and take effect and be in full force and effect from and after its passage, IT IS SO ORDAINED. PASSED AND APPROVED, This the �j�( day of m1cD. 1950. .�__ *TFD: R of tie - - -CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI y ecre ary :Zy AS T O GAL FORM, A orney Corpus Christi, Texas TO THE NmzRs OF THE CITY COUNCIL Corpus Christi, Texas Gentlemsn: For the reasons set forth in the emergency clause of the fore- going ordinance, a public emergency and imperative necessity exist 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 meetings of the City Counoil; 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, MAYOR City of Corpus Christi, Texas The Charter rule was suspended by the following vote: Leslie Wasserman �1jtt�Q Jack DeForrest Barney Cott Sydney E. Herndon George L. Lowman The above ordinance was passed by the following votes Leslie Wasserman /r Jack DeForrest Barney Cott --��----aa--�� 3ydney E. Herndon George L. Lowman �0 S��