HomeMy WebLinkAbout17196 ORD - 08/11/1982AN ORDINANCE.- .
AMENDING THE ELECTRICAL CODE BY INCREASING ELECTRICAL
PERMIT FEES APPROXIMATELY 11.5% EFFECTIVE OCTOBER 1,
1982; PROVIDING FOR SEVERANCE; PROVIDING FOR PUBLICATION
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI,
TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 13-93 of the Electrical Code of the City of Corpus
Christi, 1976, as amended, and particularly as amended by Ordinance No. 16823
passed and approved by the City Council on January 20, 1982, is hereby amended by
amending paragraph (c) thereof to hereafter read as follows:
"(c) Permit Fees: Before proceeding with the installation, alteration,
or addition to any electrical wiring or equipment within the City, the individual
in charge of such proposed work shall first file with the City an application
requesting a permit to carry on such work and the necessary inspections and pay
fees to the City in accordance with the following schedule:
(1) Permit Fees Required:
Construction Loop $ 2.90
*Circuits 2.90
Fixtures, Residential or Commercial Building 0.29
Motors (each individual motor) 5.80
Services up to 100 Amperes 2.90
Services 101 to 200 Amperes 8.70
Services 201 to 400 Amperes 14.50
Services over 400 Amperes 29.00
Services each additional meter 2.90
Appliances (trash compactors, dishwasher, disposer, etc.) 2.90
Equipment -Heating (Heating and Commercial Cooking units
and Hot Water Heaters) 2.90
Equipment -Moving picture projector, X -Ray Machine, Elevator
or Swimming Pool 14.50
Equipment -Others 5.80
Signs -More than 4 transformers (per transformer) 2.90
General repairs not including any of the above 5.80
*The term "Circuits" herein shall mean each main feeder, submain or branch
citcuit, for electrical services; and each fused or other type of automatic
cutout protected wire of a final branch multiwire circuit. Each such circuit
shall be charged for and considered as a separate circuit within the terms of
this section.
(2) Residential: An alternate fee schedule for new construction of
one and two family dwellings, apartments, townhouses and condominiums shall be
2.9 per square foot of the main building excluding garages.
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(3) If the office of the Chief Electrical Inspector has not been
notified within seventy-two (72) hours (Saturday, Sunday, and Legal Holidays
excepted) after a specific job is started, then the permit fee shall be doubled.
The collecti-on made is to help defray the additional cost of inspecting work
already done and issuing a permit under such circumstances and is not a penalty
and is not preclusive of any remedy otherwise available to the City to enforce
this Code.
(4) In the event the total fees according to the foregoing schedule are
less than $5.80, then the minimum permit charge of $5.80 shall apply.
(5) In the event that an inspection is made and the resultant discovery
is that work for which a permit is required by this Code has been done but the
required permit has not been issued, then an investigation fee of $11.60 shall
be added to the permit fee.
(6) When an inspection is made as required by this Code, and the work
as completed fails to pass so that an additional inspection is required then
a reinspection fee of $5.80 shall be charged.
(7) Fees for permits which require inspection outside the City limits
shall be increased by $14.50.
(8) Agencies of the federal, state, county and city governments are
exempt from the payment of fees in connection with the construction or repairs
of building used, owned, and located on property owned by said governmental
agencies. Permit fees for public schools and other political subdivisions
having ad valorem tax -exempted status, and for church sanctuaries and all
other State constitutionally exempted ad valorem tax entities shall be fifty
(50%) per cent of the regular permit fee.
(9) Fees for permits for installations in buildings or building com-
ponents which are manufactured and inspected outside the City limits prior to
being moved into the City may be increased by the Building Official once
annually per manufacturing plant by $.29 per mile plus $29.00 per 200 miles
for the distance between the City and the plant, to allow for annual inplant
inspections"
SECTION 2. The effective date of this ordinance shall be October 1,
1982.
SECTION 3. If for any reason any section, paragraph, subdivision, clause, .
phrase, word or provision of this ordinance shall be held invalid or unconstitut-
ional by final judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction, it shall not affact
any other section, paragraph, subdivision, clause, phrase, work, 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 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.
That the foregoing ordinance wap, read for t first time And passed to its
second reading on this the 2i day of , , by the
following vote:
Luther Jones
Betty N. Turner
Jack K. Dumphy
Bob Gulley
Herbert L. Hawkins, Jr.
Dr. Charles W. Kennedy
Cliff Zarsky
That the foregoing ordinance w ead for tH
third reading on this the day of second ime 19 "passed to its
, , by the
following vote:
Luther Jones
Betty N. Turner
Jack K. Dumphy
Bob Gulley
Herbert L. Hawkins, Jr.
Dr. Charles W. Kennedy
Cliff Zarsky
That the foregoingmdinance wa ad for
on this the ijn""day of
Luther Jones
Betty N. Turner
Jack K. Dumphy
Bob Gulley
Herbert L. Hawkins, Jr.
Dr. Charles W. Kennedy
;ime and passed finally
2.1, by the following vote:
Cliff Zarsky
PASSED AND APPROVED, this the
ATTEST:
APPROUps-
)771,\DAY OF
J. BRUCE YCOCK, ITY ATTORNEY
By
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THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS
19196