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Home My WebLink About025871 ORD - 07/27/2004AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 18, FIRE PREVENTION CODE, OF THE CITY CODE OF ORDINANCES BY REVISING SECTION 18-1 (b) (12), FEE SCHEDULE; BY REVISING SECTION 18-20, AMBULANCE RATES; AND BY ADDING SECTION 18-3, HAZARDOUS MATERIAL AND DEBRIS CLEAN-UP FEE; PROVIDING FOR SEVERANCE; PROVIDING FOR PUBLICATION. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS: SECTION 1. The Code of Ordinances, City of Corpus Christi, Section 18-1(b) (12), 105.8. Fee Schedule, is revised to read as follows: CORPUS CHRISTI FIRE DEPARTMENT FIRE PREVENTION PERMIT FEE SCHEDULE Permit Type Fee Fire/arson reports $ 4.00 per page Airports, heliports and helistops ,:q9~-100.00 annually Assembly, A-1 or A-2 70.00 100.00 annually Automatic sprinklers, standpipes, and fire lines (testing) 55.00 100.00 per visit Churches (one-time fee--no day care facility on premises) 67.00 Combustible fibers (storage and handling) 87.00 100.00 annually Compressed gas 6'!,00 100.00 annually Cryogenic fluids 64,00-100.00 annually Day care facilities (or similar short-term occupancies) ~,0.00 60.00 annually H:\LEG-DIRLloseph\Ord-Fees04-combined.doc ' 1 I I Lumber storage Mechanical refrigeration Open burning Organic coatings Plans review Pressure test (fuel storage tanks and/or product lines) Repair garages Restaurants (facilities that accommodate 100 or less occupants) Restaurants (facilities that accommodate more than 100 occupants) Special handlinQ fee (less than 24-hours notice) Tank vehicles for flammable and combustible liquids Tents and air supported structures Tire rebuilding plant Underground/aboveground fuel tanks (installation and removal) Wrecking yard, junkyard or waste handling 63.00 100.00 annually 30.00 60.00 annually 93.00 150.00 per day 63.00 100.00 annually 150.00 per review 56.00 100.00 per visit 60.00 100.00 annually · !.0.00 75.00 annually 70.00 100.00 annually 100.00 per inspection 4~99-100.00 annually 70.00 75.00 annually 40~(M 00.00 annually 56.00 100.00 .per inspection 40~-100.00 annually H:\LEG-DIRLloseph\Ord -Fees04-combined.doc SECTION 2. The Code of Ordinances, City of Corpus Chdsti, Section 18-20, Ambulance rates, is revised to read as follows: Sec. 18-20. Ambulance rates. Ambulance rates for emergency medical service shall be charged as follows: (a) Rates. (1) Basic life support (BLS)... $3'!.2.00 355.00 (2) Advanced life support rates (ALS~ .4-7-8:9~500.00 (ALS 2-maior medication)... 550.00 (b) Supplementary charges. (1) Emergency runs within or outside the city, but within Nueces County, requiring the administration of oxygen, providing a tweR~ dollar ($20.00)thirh,-five dollar ($35.00) charge in addition to the appropriate charge defined in subsection (a) of this section. (2) Providing a mileage charge of seven dollars ($7.00)nine dollars ($9.00) per mile for those calls inside the city limits and ten dollars ($10.O0),hNelve dollars ($12.00) for those calls outside the city limits, from patient pick-up point to the hospital. (6) Providinq a charqe of forty-five dollars ($45.00) for additional personnel when needed to prov de patient care during transport. SECTION 3. The Code of Ordinances, City of Corpus Christi, is amended by adding Section 18-3, Hazardous material and debris clean-up feel to read as follows: Sec. 18-3. Hazardous material and debris clean-up fee. The fee for clean-up of hazardous material and debris performed by the Corpus Chdsti Fire Department after a motor vehicle or other accident, inside or outside the city limits, shall be a minimum of $100.00, and up to the actual cost of clean- up, whichever is qreater. H:~LEG-DIRLloseph\Ord-Fees04-combined.doc SECTION 4. 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 5. 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. SECTION 6. This ordinance goes into effect on August 1,2004. H:~LEG-DIRLloseph\Ord-Fees04-combined.doc That the foregoing ordinance was read for the first time and passed to its second reading on this the /7 day of ~ ,2004, by the following vote: Samuel L Neal, Jr. (~.{/-~/ Bill Kelly Brent Chesney ~ Javier D. Colmenero ~ Melody Cooper ~ Henry Garrett ~ ... Rex A. Kinnison Jesse Noyola Mark Scott ~,L~ .. That the foregoing ordinance wa~, rea,d for the second time and passed finally on this the ~ -~ day of \.~J.~ ,2004, by the following vote: Samuel L. Neal, Jr. Brent Chesney Javier D. Colmenero Melody Cooper Henry Garrett Bill Kelly Rex A. Kinnison Jesse Noyola Mark Scott PASSED AND APPROVED, this the ~}P~'day of ATTEST: City Secretary .~...~ 2004. CITY OF C~ORPU~ CHRISTI Samuel L. Neal, Jr. r Mayor Approved as to legal form ~/../;) ~-' ,2004; By: Assistant City Attorney For City Attorney ,- ,'.' 5 ( I State of Texas ) County of Nueces } PUBLISHER'S AFFIDAVIT SS: CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI Ad # 4964326 PO # Before me, the undersigned, a Notary Public, this day personally came Diana Hinoiosa, who being first duly sworn, according to law, says that she is Credit Manager of the Corpus Christi Caller-Times, a daily newspaper published at Corpus Christi in said City and State, generally circulated in Aransas, Bee, Brooks, Duval, Jim Hogg, Jim Wells, Kames, Kenedy, Kleberg, Live Oak,. Nueces, Refugio, San Patricio, Victoria and Webb Counties, and that the publication of, NOTICE OF PASSAGE OF ORDINANCE NO. which the annexed is a true copy, was inserted in the Corpus Christi Caller-Times and on the World Wide Web on the Caller-Times Interactive on the 2ND day(s) of AUGUST. 2004. $75.50 TWO (2) Time(s) Credit Manager Subscribed and sworn to me on the date of AUGUST 03, 2004. Notary Public, Nueces County, Texas ROSA MARIA FLORES Print or Type Name of Notary Public My commission expires on 04/23/05. Corpus Chdsl] C~l!er-'13rnee, Monday, 2, 2004/D~ NOTICE OF PASSAGE 02~871 C-,~e of O~nances by (b) (12), Fee Schedule; by rev~sir~g ~1~ 18- ~ by a~ ~ 18-3, Hazardou~