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AN ORDINANCE
AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 15256, PASSED AND APPROVED BY
THE CITY COUNCIL ON DECEMBER 12, 1979, WHICH ADOPTED
THE SOUTHERN STANDARD BUILDING CODE, 1979 EDITION, WITH
CERTAIN EXCEPTIONS AS OUTLINED THEREIN, BY ADDING A
NEW CHAPTER, NUMBERED AND ENTITLED XXXIV. LOCATION OF
BUILDINGS NEAR OIL AND GAS WELLS; PROVIDING A SAVINGS
CLAUSE; PROVIDING FOR PUBLICATION.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI,
TEXAS:
SECTION 1. That Ordinance No. 15256, passed and approved by the
City Council on December 12, 1979, which adopted the Southern Standard
Building Code, 1979 Edition, with certain exceptions as outlined therein,
be amended by adding a new chapter, to hereafter read as follows:
"CHAPTER XXXIV
LOCATION OF BUILDINGS NEAR OIL AND GAS WELLS
SECTION 3401 - General.
The presence of oil and gas wells within the City of Corpus
Christi presents the risks of blow -outs and explosions which would
endanger the lives of occupants in any buildings in proximity to wells.
The Land Drilling Ordinance and the Fire Prevention Code prohibit open
flames around wells. This Chapter regulates the location of buildings
in proximity to oil and gas wells in order to provide for the safety of
building occupants.
SECTION 3402 -•Buildings Prohibited within 150 feet of Active
Wells.
(a) No habitable building shall be constructed within 150 feet
of an oil and gas well which has not been plugged and abandoned according
to the regulations of the Land Drilling Ordinance of the City of Corpus
Christi, except buildings directly associated with the production from
such a well.
(b) Any oil or gas well which was plugged and abandoned prior to
May 29, 1968, with mud or only a bottom plug shall be considered to be
unsafe for the location of any building within 50 feet thereof, until
remedied by setting a cement plug in the well near the surface and cutting'
the casing off below ground and placing a steel plate over the top.
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SECTION 3403 - Natural Gas Seepage Areas.
In any area characterized by seeping methane gas at the surface
of the ground, any building constructed shall be provided with ventilation
for the purpose of protecting against any accumulation of explosive gases
within and under the building. Such ventilation system shall be designed
by an engineer who shall submit a statement with the application for the
building permit to the effect that the design of the ventilation system
was prepared in accordance with this Section."
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 hereof be given full force and effect for its
purpose.
SECTION 3. Publication shall be made one time in the official
publication of the City of Corpus Christi,which publication shall contain
the caption stating in summary the purpose of the ordinance.
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That the foregoing ordinance was read fo the first time and passed to its
second reading on this the IQ day of rn hE P -T 19 Zc\ , by the
following vote:
Luther Jones
Edward L. Sample
Dr. Jack Best
David Diaz
Jack K. Dumphy
Betty N. Turner
Cliff Zarsky
That the foregoing ordinance was read for
third reading on this the o2 day of
following vote:
Luther Jones
Edward L. Sample
Dr. Jack Best
David Diaz
Jack K. Dumphy
Betty N. Turner
Cliff Zarsky
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That the foregoing ordinanc was read for the third time and passed finally
on this the c:71 day of , 19 TO , by the following vote:
Luther Jones
Edward L. Sample
Dr. Jack Best
David Diaz
Jack K. Dumphy
Betty N. Turner
Cliff Zarsky
PASSED AND APPROVED, this the G3 day of
ATTEST:
'City Secretary
APP VED:
DAY OF(D2ihj , 19 7:
J. BRUCE AYCOCK, CITY ATTORNEY
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MAY 1
THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS
15290
PUBLISHER'S AFFIDAVIT
STATE OF TEXAS, lss:
County of Nueces. f
Before me, the undersigned, a Notary Public, this day personally came
ELMA RODELA
Accounting Clerk
, who being first duly sworn. according to law, says that he is the
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 Passage of Ordinance No. 15290 Amending Ordinance no. 15256, Passed and Approved ,
Corpus Christi Caller -Times
of which the annexed is a true copy, was published in
on the_ 7th day of... January ....... 19 80 „ and once each tiigailObanaX
consecutive....
1 Times.
Rodela C(J
Elmo ��'�._.._
Accounting Clerk 80
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Subscribed and sworn to before me this
9thday of
January y
Lois Winn• 44a/ /^
Notary Public, Nueces County, Texas
ICE OF PAAAGE
OF OR3INANCE
NO. 15290
AMENLIIALG
NANCE NO. 1525�, PASSED
AND APROVFO BY THE
ITY COJNCOt 4:)N DE-
CEMBER 12. 1979, WHICH
ADOPTED THE SOUTH-
ERN STANDARD BUILD-
ING CODE, L979 EDITION,
ITH cERTAIN EXCEP-
IONSi AS OUTLINED
THEREIN, BY ADDING A
NEW CrAPTER, NUM-
BERED AND ENTITLED
XXXIV. LOCATION OF
BUILDINGS NEAROIL
AND GAS-WELLS; PRO-
VIDING A SAVINGS
' CLAUSE; PROVIDING
FOR PUL3JCATION.
• WAS PASSED AND AP- 4
PROVED by the Clly Council -
of the City of Corpus Christi,
Texas during the Regula
Council Meeting held on the
2nd day of January, 1980 at
2:00 p.m, and provides that It
shall be In full force and ef '
fed from and after ifs pail
sage and publication °nil
time In the official p55-
!melon of the City of Corpug
Christi, Texas,
ISSUED UNDER di
HAND AND SEAL of the
ary, 1980.
City of Corpus Christi/
Texas, this 3rd day of Janu
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City Secretar>l
Corpus Christi/
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