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HomeMy WebLinkAboutORD 69-72ORDINANCE NO. , ENTITLED AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 8 OF THE CODE OF ORDINANCES OF BEAUMONT, TEXAS, BY AMENDING SECTION 8-1, PROVIDING FOR ADOPTING THE 1969 EDITION OF THE SOUTHERN STANDARD BUILDING CODE; PROVIDING A PENALTY, PROVIDING FOR SEVERABILITY, AND REPEALING ALL ORDINANCES OR PARTS OF ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT HEREWITH. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY OF BEAUMONT, TEXAS: 1. ,Triat Section 8-1 of The Code of Ordinances of Beaumont, Texas, be and the same is hereby amended to read as follows: "Sec. 8-1. Southern Standard Building Code -- Adoption Tnere is hereby adopted by the City for the pur- pose of establishing rules and regulations for the construction, alteration, removal, demolition, equipment, use and occupancy, location and main- tenance of buildings and structures, excluding permits and penalties, that certain building code known as the Southern Standard Building Code re- commended by the Southern Building Code Congress, being particularly the 1969 Revision thereof, and all amendments thereof, of which one copy has been and now is filed in the office of the city,/ clerk of the city and the same is hereby adopted and incorporated as fully as if set out at length herein, and from the date on which this section shall take effect, the provisions thereof shall be controlling in the construction, alteration, repair, removal, demolition, equipment and main- tenance of all buildings and other structures within the corporate limits of the city, save and except the portions of the Southern Standard Building Code which are hereby deleted, substituted, modified or amended as set forth in this chapter." 2. Treat any person who violates any provision of this ordinance shall, upon conviction, be punished as provided in Section 1-8 of the Code of Ordinances of Beaumont, Texas. 3. Tnat if any section, subsection, sentence, clause or phrase of this ordinance or the application of same to a par- ticular set of persons or circumstances should for any reason be held to be invalid, such invalidity shall in no wise affect 0--6 �_ %all - /a 9 /z/00 the remaining portions of this ordinance, and to such end the various portions and provisions of this ordinance are declared to be severable. 4. Triat all ordinances and parts of ordinances in con- flict herewith are hereby repealed. PASSED by the City Council this 14th day of October, 1969. - Mayor -