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ORDINANCE NO. 1993
AN ORDINANCE BY THE CITY OF NORTH RICHLAND HILLS AMENDING
ORDINANCE # 1781, THE ELECTRICAL ORDINANCE, REGARDING
ELECTRICAL LICENSE EXAMINATION PROCEDURES; TO DELETE ALL
REFERENCE TO THE TARRANT COUNTY ELECTRICAL EXAMINING
BOARD; BY PROVIDING THAT THE CITY COUNCIL MAY AUTHORIZE
THE CITY MANAGER OR HIS APPOINTED DESIGNEE TO CONTRACT
WITH AN EXAMINING AGENCY TO PERFORM EXAMINATION SERVICES
AS THE CITY'S OFFICIALLY DESIGNATED EXAMINING AGENCY; BY
PROVIDING THAT IN THE ALTERNATIVE, THE CITY COUNCIL MAY
AUTHORIZE THE CITY MANAGER OR HIS APPOINTED DESIGNEE TO
CONTRACT WITH OTHER CITIES IN THE NORTH TEXAS REGION TO
RETAIN THE SERVICES OF AN EXAMINING AGENCY TO PERFORM
EXAMINATIONS AS THE CITY'S OFFICIALLY DESIGNATED EXAMINING
AGENCY; BY PROVIDING THAT THE BUILDING OFFICIAL SHALL BE
AUTHORIZED TO APPROVE OTHER EXAMINING AGENCIES WHOSE
CERTIFICATIONS OF EXAMINATION SHALL BE ACCEPTED BY THE CITY
IN LIEU OF THE CERTIFICATE OF EXAMINATION ISSUED BY THE CITY'S
OFFICIALLY DESIGNATED EXAMINING AGENCY, SUCH AGENCIES TO
BE DESIGNATED AS ALTERNATE EXAMINING AGENCIES; PROVIDING A
SEVERABILITY CLAUSE; PROVIDING A SA VINGS CLAUSE; AND
PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
WHEREAS, the City of North Richland Hills adopted a new electrical ordinance number
1781 on February 10, 1992, and
WHEREAS, the electrical ordinance contained provisions for electrical license
examinations, and
WHEREAS, the electrical ordinance recognized the Tarrant County Electrical Examining
Board as the official examining agency, and
WHEREAS, this amendment to the electrical ordinance in cooperation with the North
Central Texas Council of Governments Regional Codes Coordinating Committee will
help protect the health, safety, and welfare of the citizens of the City of North Richland
Hills; now therefore,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NORTH
RICHLAND HILLS, TEXAS:
1.
THAT, Section 20.3.A ELECTRICAL LICENSE REQUIRED shall be amended to read
as follows:
A. Provide written evidence of successfully passing a written examination given by
the City's officially designated examining agency for the grade of license sought;
or,
2.
THAT, Section 23 ELECTRICAL LICENSING EXAMINATION PROCEDURES shall
be amended to read as follows:
SECTION 23. ELECTRICAL LICENSING EXAMINATION PROCEDURES
1. A person wishing to obtain a license for one of the grades of electrical licenses
issued by the City of North Richland Hills shall file a written application with the
City's officially designated examining agency. Such application shall be
completed and filed in accordance with the procedures prescribed by the
examining agency.
2. Examination fees, dates, times and places of the examinations, procedures for
administering the examinations, grading of the examinations, examination
security and examination results, repeat examinations, appeal of examination
scores, shall be sole responsibility of the agency administering the examination.
3.
THAT, Section 24. LICENSE EXAMINATION FEES shall be amended to read as
follows:
SECTION 24. APPROV AL OF EXAMINING AGENCIES
1. The City Council may authorize the City Manager or his appointed designee to
contract with an examination agency to perform examination services for the
licensing of electricians; or the City Council may authorize the City Manager or
his appointed designee to contract with other cities in the North Texas Region in
the form of an Interlocal Cooperation Agreement allowing the cities as a unit to
contract the services of an examining agency. The selected agency shall be the
City's officially designated examining agency and shall perform all examination
services requested by the City when issuing electrical licenses.
2. The Building Official shall be authorized to approve those examining agencies
whose certificates of examination will be accepted by the City in lieu of the
certificate of examination issued by the City's officially designated agency. Such
agencies shall be known as alternate examining agencies. It shall be the
responsibility of the Building Official to review the qualifications and testing
standards of such agencies. The Building Official shall not approve an examining
agency which does not maintain examination standards at least equal to those
required by this code.
4.
SEVERABILITY CLAUSE. That it is hereby declared to be the intention of the City
Council that the sections, paragraphs, sentences, clauses and phrases of this ordinance are
severable, and if any section, paragraph, sentence, clause or phrase of this ordinance shall
be declared invalid or unconstitutional by the valid judgment or decree of any court of
competent jurisdiction, such invalidity or unconstitutionality shall not affect any
remaining sections, paragraphs, sentences, clauses and phrases of this ordinance, since the
same would have been enacted by the City Council without the incorporation in this
ordinance of any such invalid or unconstitutional section, paragraph, sentence, clause or
phrase.
5.
SA VINGS CLAUSE. That Ordinance 1781, The Electrical Ordinance of the City of
North Richland Hills, Texas as amended, shall remain in full force and effect, save and
except as amended by this ordinance.
6.
EFFECTIVE DATE. This ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and after its
passage.
PASSED AND APPROVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL THIS 11TH DAY OF
JULY, 1994
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