HomeMy WebLinkAbout1958-0261 - Ordinance - 03/24/1958ORDINANCE NO. 261
AN ORDINANCE PROVIDING FOR THE ISSUANCE OF PERMITS AND FOR THE COLLECTION
OF FEES THEREFORE, REGULATING THE ERECTION, CONSTRUCTION, ENLARGEMENT,
[4 REPAIR, REMOVAL, MOVING, DEMOLITION, CONVERSION, HEIGHT, AREA, AND MAIN-
TENANCE OF BUILDING AND STRUCTURES IN THE CITY OF COLLEGE STATION; PRO-
VIDING PENALTIES FOR ,THE VIOLATION THEREOF,- PROVIDING A SAVING CLAUSE,
AND REPEALING ALL ORDINANCES AND AMENDMENTS THERETO IN CONFLICT THEREWITH;
AND MAKING IT A MISDEMEANOR FOR VIOLATION THEREOF WITH A FINE OF NOT LESS
THAN TEN DOLLARS NOR MORE THAN TWO HUNDRED DOLLARS.
BE IT ORDAINED by the City Council of the City of College Station,
Texas:
Section 1. Tile building inspector shall examine applications for
0 permits within sevendays after filing. If, after examination, he finds
o no objections to the.; same, and it appears that the proposed work will be
in compliance with the laws, subdivision restrictions, and ordinances
03 applicable, and the proposed construction for work will be safe, he shall
approve such application, and issue a permit for the proposed work as soon
as practicable. If tris examination reveals otherwise, he shall reject such
application, noting his findings in a written report to be attached to the
application and deliver a copy to the applicant.
BOORUM & PEASE
Section 2. (a) No permit as required by the ordinances of the
City of College Station shall be issued until the fees described in this
ordinance shall have been paid. Nor shall an amendment to a permit be
approved until an additional fee, if any, due to the increase in the es-
timated cost of a building or structure shall have been paid.
(b) For a permit for the construction or alteration
to a building or a structure, the fee shall be at the rate of two dollars
per thousand dollars'of the estimated cost, up to ten thousand dollars,
plus one dollar and fifty cents per one thousand dollars of the estimated
costs in excess of ten thousand dollars up to twenty-five thousand dollars,
plus one dollar per thousand dollars of the estimated cost in excess of
twenty-five thousand dollars, but not less than two dollars in any case,
provided that no fee shall be required when the estimated cost does not
exceed fifty dollars. This ordinance shall not cover any maintenance costs,
and no permit shall be necessary for any such work.
(c) For a permit for the removal of a building or '
structure from one lot to another, the fee shall be at the rate of two
dollars per thousand dollars of the estimated value of the building or
structure in its completed condition after removal.
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(d) For a permit for the removal of a building or
structure to a new location within the same lot, the fee shall be at the
rate of one dollar per thousand dollars of the estimated costs of moving,
new foundations and work necessary to put the building or structure in a
usable condition in its new location.
(e) For a permit for the demolition of a building or
structure the fee shall be at the rate of one dollar for each ten feet in
the height of the building or structure plus one per cent additional for
each foot of street footage of the building or structure in excess of fifty
feet.
(f) In case of abandonment or discontinuance, the cost
of work performed under a permit may be estimated, an adjustment of the fee
made and the portion of the fee for uncompleted work returned to the permit
holder provided that no refund of a prescribed minimum fee shall be made.
If such discontinuance is due to the revocation of permit, a similar adjust-
ment and return may be made provided that no refund shall_ be made until all
penalties incurred or imposed by due authority have been collected. After
such refund has been made no work shall be resumed until a new application
has been made and a new permit has been issued.
(g) The term "estimated cost", as used in this section,
means the reasonable value of all services, labor, materials or other ap-
pliances or devices entering into and necessary for the completion of the
work ready for occupancy.
Section 3. The building inspector as provided for in the ordinances
of the city shall make at least two inspections. The first inspection to be
made when the work is commenced and another inspection when the work has been
completed to determine if said work is in violation of any of the ordinances
or regulations applying thereto.
Section 4. Any person or any contractor who shall violate a provision
of this ordinance or fails to comply thereto or with any of the requirements
thereof, or who shall erect, construct, alter or repair or has erected, con-
structed, altered or repaired a building or structure in violation of a de-
tailed statement or plan submitted and approved thereunder or of a permit or
a certificate issued thereunder shall be guilty of a misdemeanor punishable
by a fine of not less than ten dollars nor more than two hundred dollars, and
each day that said violation exists shall constitute a separate offense.
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Passed and approved this the 24th day of March, 1958.
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City Secretary
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