Ordinance No. 6,141920121 -17
ORDINANCE NO. 6141
• AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 7 -4 "BUILDING CODE -
ADOPTED BY REFERENCE ",.AND SECTION 7- 30(x)(1) "WHERE
REQUIRED ", OF CHAPTER 7 "BUILDINGS ", OF THE CODE OF
ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF BAYTOWN TO CORRECT
TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS IN THE SECTIONS; PROVIDING A
REPEALING CLAUSE; CONTAINING A SAVINGS CLAUSE; AND
PROVIDING FOR THE EFFECTIVE DATE THEREOF.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BAYTOWN,
TEXAS:
Section 1: That Section 7 -4 "Building code - Adopted by
reference ", of Chapter 7 "Buildings ", of the Code of Ordinances,
City of Baytown, Texas, is hereby amended to read as follows:
Sec. 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
editions thereof, heretofore or hereafter adopted, of
which at least one copy is to be on file in the off ice
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: That Section 7- 30(a) (1) "Where Required ", of
Chapter 7 "Buildings" of the Code of Ordinances, City of Baytown,
Texas, is hereby amended to read as follows:
Sec. 7 -30. Where required.
(a) (1) Between such new building or buildings and an
existing one (1) or two (2) living unit
structure occupied, or capable of being
occupied, on the date the building permit is
sought;
Section 3: 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repealed; provided however, that such repeal shall be only to the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.
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• Section 4: 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.
Section 5: 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 21st day of
January, 1992.
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ATTEST:
EILEEN P. City Clerk
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eS iACNIACO RAMIREZ, SR., ity Attorney
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