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
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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repealed; provided however, that such repeal shall be only to the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.
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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.
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TT 0. HUTTO, Mayor
ATTEST:
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EILEEN P. HALL, City Clerk
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