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Ordinance No. 4,73170528 -8 ORDINANCE NO. 4731 ® AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 7 -4 OF CHAPTER 7, "BUILDINGS," OF THE CODE OF ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF BAYTOWN, TEXAS, ADOPTING THE 1985 EDITION OF THE STANDARD BUILDING CODE; REPEALING CONFLICTING ORDINANCES; CONTAINING A SAVINGS CLAUSE; AND PROVIDING FOR THE EFFECTIVE DATE HEREOF. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BAYTOWN, TEXAS: Section 1: That Section 7 -4 of the Code of Ordinances of the City of Baytown is hereby amended to read as follows: Section 7 -4. Building code -- Adopted by reference. Except as hereinafter provided, the Standard Building Code by the Southern Building Code Congress, 1985 edition, and all amendments thereto, and new additions thereof, heretofore or hereafter adopted, of which at least one copy is to be on file in the office ® of the city clerk of the City of Baytown, is hereby adopted and incorporated as fully as if set forth at length herein, and from the date on which this section shall take effect. The provisions therein shall be controlling in the construction, alteration, equipment, and removal of buildings and structures for industrial and commercial construction within the city limits of the City of Baytown. Section 2: All ordinances or parts of ordinances inconsistent with the terms of this ordinance are hereby repealed; provided however, that such repeal shall be only to the extent of such inconsistency and in all other respects this ordinance shall be cumulative of other ordinances regulating and governing the subject matter covered by this ordinance. Section 3: If any provisions, section, exception, subsection, paragraph, sentence, clause or phrase of this ordinance or the application of same to any person or set of circumstances, shall for any reason be held unconstitutional, ® void or invalid, such invalidity shall not affect the validity of the remaining provisions of this ordinance or their application to other persons or sets of circumstances and to this end all provisions of this ordinance are declared to be severable. r 1 U r 11 70528 -8a Section 4: This ordinance shall take effect immediately from and after its passage by the City Council of the City of Baytown. INTRODUCED, READ and PASSED by the affirmative vote of the City Council of the City of Baytown, this the 28th day of May, 1987. EM TT 0. HUTTO, Mayor ATTEST: e q--g "O"e -) P EILEEN P. HALL, City Clerk 0:1:21:1 n C El