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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1978-1100 - Ordinance - 02/09/1978ORDINANCE NO. 1100 AN ORDINANCE AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 965 BY ADOPTING THE 1976 EDITION OF THE SOUTHERN STANDARD BUILDING CODE AND THE 1977 REVISION TO THE 1976 EDITION, PROVIDING AMENDMENTS TO THE TEXT OF THE SAID CODES AND REVISIONS, AND PROVIDING FOR THE ISSUANCE OF PERMITS AND COLLECTION OF FEES THEREFOR, AND REPEALING ALL ORDINANCES AND PARTS OF ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT THEREWITH. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS: That Section 1 shall be amended to read as follows: SECTION 1 That the Standard Building Code, 1976 Edition and the 1977 Revision to the 1976 Edition, as adopted by the Southern Building Code Congress, a copy of which is on file in the office of the City Secretary of the City of College Station, Texas, is hereby adopted and designated as the Building Code of the City of College Station, the same as though such code were copied at length herein, subject however to the omissions, additions, and amendments contained in Section 7 hereof. That Section 6 shall be amended to read as follows: SECTION 6 PERMIT FEES (a) For each separate structure, the Building Permit fees shall be as follows: Valuation of structure and site improvements $0.00 to $2000.00 $2001.00 to $15,000.00 $15,001.00 to $50,000.00 $50,001.00 to $100,000.00 $100,001.00 to $500,000.00 $500,001.00 and up Fee $5.00 per thousand or fraction thereof $10.00 for the first $2000.00 plus $3.00 for each additional thousand or fraction thereof, to and including $15,000.00 $49.00 for the first $15,000.00 plus $2.50 for each additional thousand or fraction thereof, to and including $50,000.00. $136.50 for the first $50,000.00 plus $2.00 for each additional thousand or fraction thereof, to and including $100,000.00. $236.50 for the first $100,000.00 plus $1.25 for each additional thousand or fraction thereof, to and including $500,000.00. $736.50 for the first $500,000.00 plus $0.75 for each additional thousand or fraction thereof. ORDINANCE NO. 1100 (b) Moving of Building or Structures Page 2 For the moving of any building or structure, the fee shall be $10.00 if no escort is provided by the Police Department. Where such an escort is required, an additional fee of $40.00 shall be charged. (c) Demolition of Buildings or Structures There shall be no fee for permits for the demolition of any building or structure unless an inspection is required, in which case the fee shall be $5.00 per inspection. Landfill fees for disposition of debris are payable to the Utility Department. (d) The fee for any re -inspection where the work was obviously not ready for inspection when originally requested, or where requirements of the Building Code or the Building Permit were flagrantly disregarded shall be 25 percent of the original permit fee and must be paid in the Office of the Building Official before the reinspection is made. The Building Official may waive this fee where it is shown that unusual circumstances beyond the control of the permit holder or his agents existed." That there shall be added a new Section 7 to read as follows: SECTION 7 AMENDMENTS (1) Section 102.1 (a) is amended to read: Within the Public Works Deparmtent there is hereby established a division, which may hereinafter be referred to as the "Building Department", and a Building Official shall be appointed. (2) To Section 103.7 shall be added the following sentence: "Department of Law in this instance shall be construed to mean "City Attorney". (3) Section 105.7 is amended to read: The Building Official may require such surveys as may be necessary to establish the location of property lines, public right-of-way lines, building lines and public easements where the locations effect the proposed work, and the said surveys shall be made by a Registered Public Surveyor or Registered Engineer at the applicant's expense. (4) There shall be added a new Section 106.1 (d) to read: A permit shall not be issued for the construction of any building on any tract, lot or subdivision where water lines and fire hydrants as required by the applicable Subdivision Regulations are not completed and in service and where all-weather access for emergency vehicles does not exist. (5) Section 106.2 is amended by deleting therefrom the phrase "to pay a license tax as provided in the general license ordinance, and". (6) Section 107.2 (b) shall be deleted. (7) There shall be added a new sentence to Section 108.2 (d) to read: No inspection shall be required on Federal or State property. (8) Section 111.2 is amended to read: Of the members first appointed, two shall be appointed for a term of one year, two shall be appointed for a term of two years, and one shall be appointed for a term of three years; thereafter they shall be appointed for three years. Vacancies shall be filled for an unexpired term in the manner in which original appointments are required 5to ORDINANCE NO. 1100 Page 3 be made. Continued absence of any member from regular meetings of the Board shall, at the discretion of the City Council, render such members liable to immediate removal from office. (9) Section 114 is amended to read: Any person, firm, corporation or agent who shall violate a provision of this code, or fail to comply therewith, or with any of the requirements thereof, or who shall erect, construct, alter, demolish, or move any structure, or has erected, constructed, altered, repaired, moved or demolished a building or structure in violation of a detailed statement or drawing submitted and approved thereunder, or who shall knowingly make a false statement in applications or drawings submitted for a Building Permit shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. Each such person shall be deemed guilty of a separate offense for each and every day or portion thereof during which any violation of any of the provisions of this code is committed or continued, and upon conviction of any such violation such person shall be fined not to exceed two hundred dollars ($200.00). (10) Section 201.2 shall be amended by adding to the definition of "MEZZANINE" a new sentence to read: A mezzanine shall be considered to be an additional story. (11) To section 402 there shall be added a paragraph to read as follows: 402.0 - Except in Business, Educational, and Institutional -Restrained Occupancies in Type I or II construction, no floor of any building without automatic sprinkler protection shall exceed 15,000 square feet in area. Educational and Institutional - Restrained Occupancy in Type I and II unsprinklered buildings shall be unlimited. Business occupancy in unsprinklered buildings shall not exceed 15,000 square feet but may be increased to 30,000 square feet where no tennant space exceeds 2000 square feet, automatic closers are maintained on openings to tenant spaoos, heat or smoke detector actuated central alarm is provided throughout, and air handling systems are separated or provided with smoke dampers to prevent common circulation. (12) Section 405.1 (c) shall be deleted. (13) Section 506.11 paragraphs (a) and (b), shall be amended to read as follows: (a) In lieu of complete automatic protection, areas of refuge may be provided in buildings which do not exceed twelve (12) stories or one hundred fifty (150) feet in height. To provide such areas of refuge, a story exceeding fifteen thousand (15,000) square feet in area shall be divided into two (2) or more areas of approximately the same size but not exceeding fifteen thousand (15,000) square feet each by means of a horizontal exit wall. (b) When a story or compartmented portion of a story is less than fifteen thousand (15,000) square feet in area, adjacent stories or compartmented portions thereof may be combined to form one area of refuge. The area of refuge provided by combining floors shall not exceed fifteen thousand (15,000) square feet or five (5) stories. To isolate one combination of stories from another, the separation may be obtained by one of the following: 1. Interrupting the stairshaft with smoke barriers. 2. Discontinuous stairshafts with flights of stairs interrupted bya corridor connecting flights of stairs. 3. All stairways constructed as smokeproof enclosures. Any combination of horizontal and vertical separations may be employed which will limit the size of any area of refuge to fifteen thousand feet. (14) Section 508 shall be deleted. ORDINANCE NO. 1100 Page 4 (15) Table 400 shall be amended by the addition of the superscript "q" to the allowable areas tabulated in the Type III, V and VI columns for Group R occupancy, story height three and above, and the addition to the table of a new note "q" to read: "Two remote, independent means of egress from each floor area occupied by %01 separate tenants shall be provided." (16) Section 704.33 shall be amended to read as follows: (a) Foam plastics shall not be used as interior finish except as provided in Section 718. (17) Section 1103.2, paragraph (a) shall be amended to read as follows: (a) There shall be not less than two approved independent exits, accessible to each tenant area, serving every story, except in one and two family dwellings and as modified in Section 1103.2 (c) and in Table 400. (18) Section 1124 shall be amended by the addition of a new paragraph (c) to read as follows: (c) A separate or emergency source of illumination along at least one path of egress shall be provided in all Assembly (A) occupancies and all Mercantile (M) occupancies of over 50 persons capacity. The duration of the emergency power source shall be not less than one and one-half hours. (19) Section 1302.2 (a) shall be amended to read: (a) Footings shall be so designed that the allowable bearing capacity of the soil is not exceeded. If structural plain concrete, masonry or timber footings are used, they shall rest on undisturbed natural soil, or they shall be designed by a Registered Engineer for the conditions on the site. (20) Table 1704.1 -- FASTENING SCHEDULE shall be amended so that the last line reads: Studs to sole plate, end nail -- 16d common -- 2 each end. (21) Section 2301.2 (b) shall be amended to read: (b) Ground Sign -- means an "Outdoor Advertising Display Sign" when such sign is supported by uprights or braces in or upon the ground. (22) Section 2301.8 shall be amended by changing the last sentence to read: If such order is not complied with within a reasonable time to be determined by the Buidling Official, taking into account the nature of the sign structure, the Building Official shall remove such sign at the expense of the owner or lessee thereof. (23) Section 2303.1 (c) shall be deleted. (24) Section 2303.2 (a) shall be amended to read: (a) Except where the sign face is even with the edge of the roof and covers not more than 50 (fifty) percent of the length of the roof edge upon which it faces, all roof signs shall be so constructed as to leave a clear space of not less than six (6) feet between roof level and the lowest part of the sign, and shall have at least five (5) feet clearance between the vertical supports thereof. No portion of any roof sign structure shall project beyond an exterior wall. (25) Section 2303.3 (b) shall be amended to read as follows: (b) the surface face of all wall bulletins must be of sheet metal or of the same material with which the wall is surfaced. That Section 7, Repeal and Date of Effect be re -numbered to read Of�891 ORDINANCE NO. 1100 Section 8, Repeal and Date of Effect. Page 5 That Section 8, Unconstitutionality Clause be renumbered to read Section 9, Unconstitutionality Clause, That all ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are hereby repealed, -and this ordinance shall be in effect immediately upon its adoption and its publication. PASSED AND APPROVED this the 9th day of February, 1978. ROVED 7 Mayor ATTEST zp City Secretary