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Home My WebLink AboutOrdinance 0874 ORDINANCE NO. 874 AMEND ORDINANCE NO. 310 AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 310; DEFINING CERTAIN TERMS; PROVIDE FOR ADOPTING THE 1978 EDITION OF THE NATIONAL ELECTRIC CODE AND FUTURE AMENDMENTS AND REVISIONS; PROVIDING NEW PERMIT FEES; PROVIDING FOR A $200.00 FINE FOR VIOLATIONS; AND REPEALING ALL ORDINANCES AND PARTS OF ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT HERETO; PROVIDING A SAVING CLAUSE; AND PROVIDING THAT THIS ORDINANCE SHALL BE IN FORCE AND EFFECT FROM AND AFTER THE DATE OF ITS ADOPTION AND PUBLICATION. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NORTH RICHLAND HILLS, TEXAS that: SECTION 1. The 1978 Edition of the National Electric Code be and is hereby adopted as the Electric Code of this City. Any future revision or amendment to the National Electric Code shall be effective in this City. SECTION 2. The fees to be charged under the Electric Code shall be as follows: (a) Any person granted a permit under this division shall pay to the City a fee therefor to cover the cost of inspections under this ordinance. Such fee shall be in the following amounts: (1) First 10 outlets for lighting fixtures, switches, or receptacles ................................. For each additional outlet for lighting fixtures, switches, or receptacles ....................... (2) For the first 10 lighting fixtures ............. For each additional lighting fixture ........... (3) Ceiling fans, each ............................. (4) Motor, including motor controls, up to and including 3/4 H. P., each ....................... Over 3/4 H.P. and less than 5 H.P. ............. 5 H.P. and less than 15 H.P. ................... 15 H.P. and less than 50 H.P. .................. 50 H.P. and less than 100 H.P. ................. (5) Electric generator up to and including 10 kilowatts, each ................................ (6) Billboard lighting --fees as provided herein, according to the number of openings and the number of fixtures and according to the size of the service. $ 2.00 .15 2.00 .15 .35 1. 00 2.00 4.75 6.00 15.00 15.00 (7) Primary wiring to sign, each ................... 1. 35 Each additional circuit ........................ .75 -1- (8) Sign connection, each ....... ........... .... .... (9) Connection of sign to existing circuit ......... (10) X-Ray machine, each ............................ (11) Motion Picture projection machine, each ........ $ 1.35 1.35 15.00 7.50 (12) Complete unit of motion picture sound equipment including circuit, pick-up devices, sound panel, and speakers within the building ............... 7.50 Each additional speaker outside the building ... .35 (13) Rectifier, each . ........... ......... .... ....... (14) Domestic electric range, each .................. (15) Çommercial electric range, each ................ (16) Transformer type welder, each .................. Generator type welders, each -- according to size of motor as provided herein. (17) Service, not exceeding 30 amperes .............. 30 - 60 amperes ................................ 60 - 100 amperes ............................... Over 100 amper es ............................... (18) Power transformer, each ........................ (19) Bell type transformer, each .................... (20) Temporary service .............................. (21) Festoon lighting ................ ............... (22) Kiln, each ..... ........ ........................ 2.00 2.00 5.00 2.00 1.35 2.00 3.00 7.50 3.00 .35 3.00 1.35 2.00 (23) Service to mobile-home trailer ................. 3.00 (24) Room heater, each .............................. .75 (25) Dryer, each .................................... 1.50 (26) Washing machine, each .......................... 1. 00 (28) Floor furnace, each ............................ (27) Electric water heater, each .................... 1.50 (29) Central heat, each ............................. (30) Compactor, each ................................ (31) Disposal, each ..... ....................... ..... -2- 1.50 1.50 1.00 1.00 (32) Vent-a-hood, each ........................... $ 1.00 (33) Dishwasher, each............................ 1.00 (34) Domestic precipitator, each ................. Commercial or industrial precipitator ....... 1.50 7.50 (35) Low voltage switch, each -- fees as provided herein for similar equipment of high voltage rating. (36) Window type air-conditioner, each . . . . . . . . . . . 1.50 (37) Set of boiler controls, each ................ 3.00 (38) Set of central air conditioning controls . . . . .35 (39) Computing machine, each . ........ ..... ....... 3.00 (40) For minor repairs involving neither new installations nor relocating existing equipment ................................... 3.00 (41) For installation of electrical equipment not herein specified ............................ 3.00 (b) If the office of the chief electrical inspector is not notified within seventy-two (72) hours (Sundays and legal holidays excepted) after a specific job is started, an investigation fee of two dollars ($2.00) shall be charged. SECTION 3. PENALTIES Any person who fails, neglects or refuses to comply with, or resist the enforcement of any of the provisions of this ordinance shall be fined not less than ten dollars ($10.00), nor more than two hundred dollars ($200.00) for each offense. Each day a violation is permitted to exist shall constitue a separate offense. SECTION 4. SAVING CLAUSE In the event that any section, paragraph, subdivision, clause, sentence, or provision of this ordinance shall be adjudged by any court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, such judgment shall not effect, impair, invalidate or nullify the remainder of this ordinance, but the effect thereof shall be confined to the section, paragraph, subdivision, clause, sentence or provision immediately involved in the controversy in which judgment or decree shall be rendered. -3- SECTION 5. This ordinance hereby repeals all ordinances and/or resolutions or parts of ordinances and/or resolutions that in any manner conflict with or may be incorporated herein. SECTION 6. The fact that it is to the best interest of the City and its inhabitants, constitutes a measure for immediate preservation of the public peace, property, health and safety of the City and its inhabitants, and creates an emergency requiring this ordinance be passed as an emergency measure on the day of its introduction and that this ordinance be effective from and after its passage, and it is so ordained. PASSED AND APPROVED THIS THE 9th DAY OF February , 1981. APPROVED: Íci¡~I1/hrV ~jÀ(; ATTEST: ~~ry YJ1~. TO FORM AND LEGALITY: -4- THE STATE OF TEXAS, County of Tarrant Before me, a Notary Public in and for said County and State, this day Marsha Wesbrooks Secretary personally appeared ~~for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, published by the Capital Cities Communications, Inc. at Fort Worth, in Tarrant County, Texas; and who, after being duly sworn, did depose and say that the following clipping of an advertisement referring to ORDINANCE NO. 873 ORTH.f1 YO';. lft Signe . . 26th. February I Subocnbed and sworn to before me, !IUs the--c-~J:;;l,1 Notary Public J;1ø/~J Tarrant unty, Texas. 1981 THE STATE OF TEXAS, County of Tarrant Before me, a Notary Public in and for said County and State, this day Marsha Wesbrooks Secretary personally appeared ~F for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, published by the Capital Cities Communications, Inc. at Fort Worth, in Tarrant County, Texas; and who, after being duly sworn, did depose and say that the following clipping of an advertisement referring t. to AN~ INA ".- ORDINANCE NO. 87 5 NOR".,.....,' " t I ~. :¡:lPRNÁ " . . M v:! ING,. RE b 'I. NVER· i &~PAN).,!,~~qyip..'J.è9.,~· 05e: HEIx:nl ôRE was published in the above named paper on the fOllOW~I~rr~.. tt~~T F'. . OF PIj.~I't\IT\: A February 13 I 19 81 Å~~PRbJ.BtlfGF ;. TIEJ FOR THE VIOLATI$2N - ¡'~~119&..~'ð~N.fH2tl"í-l( OF N fH RICHlAND HILLS. ;rEX. _ s/Dlck Fa.am ~tr$T: ' s~ A~ i;:¡k~ I '-- <'LL__"':L_..:J __..:J _m~_.~ h..4'~~......'" f.hi.. f.ho 13tRflvA of Fe!?rua~981