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AN ORDINANCE. PROVIDING .REGULATIONS ON CONSTRUCTION, ALTERATION,
REMOVAL, DEMOLITION, EQUIPMENT, USE, OCCUPANCY, LOCATION, MAIN-
TENANCE AND STRUCTURES.
Be it ordained by the City Council of the City of Georgetown, Williamson County, Texas;
SECTION 1. ADOPTION OF BUILDING CODE.
There .is hereby adopted by the City Counci I of the City of Georgetown, Texas, for
the purpose of establishing rules and regulations for the construction, alteration, removal,
demolition, equipment, use and occupancy, location and maintenance of buildings and
structures, including permits and penalties, that certain building code known as the Standard
Building Code, published and recommended by the Southern Building Code Congress,
being particularly the 1973 edition thereof with 1975 revisions, save and except such portions
as are hereinafter deleted, modified, or amended, of which not less than three (3) copies
have been and now are filed in the office of the Clerk of the City of Georgetown and the
same are hereby adopted and incorporated as fully as if set out at length herein, and from
the date on which this ordinance shall take effect, the provisions thereof shall be controlling
in the construction of all buildings and structures therein contained within the corporate
limits of the City of Georgetown.
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SECTION 2. ESTABLISHMENT OF OFFICE 4OF BUILDING OFFICIAL.
(a) The office of building official is hereby created and the executive official in charge
shall be known as the building official.
(b) The building official shall be appointed by the Mayor of the City of Georgetown.
His appointment shall continue during good behavior and satisfactory service. He shall not
be removed from office except for cause after full opportunity has been given him to be
heard on specific charges.
(c) During temporary absence or disability of the building official the Mayor shall
designate an acting building official.
SECTION 3. QUALIFICATIONS OF BUILDING OFFICIAL
(a) He shall be in good health, physically capable of making the necessary examinations
and inspections. He shall not have any interest whatever, directly or indirectly, in the sale
or manufacture of any material, process or device entering into or used in or in connection
with building construction, alterations, removal, and demolition.
SECTION 4. DUTIES OF BUILDING OFFICIAL
(a) He shall receive applications required by this code, issue permits and furnish the
prescribed certificates. He shall examine the premises for which permits have been issued
and shall make necessary inspections to see that the provisions of law are complied with and
Z+% that construction is prosecuted safely. He shall enforce all provisions of the building code.
He shall, when requested by proper authority or when the public interest so requires, make
investigations in connection with matters referred to in the building code and render written
reports on the some. To enforce compliance with law, to remove illegal or unsafe conditions,
to secure the necessary safeguards during construction, or to require adequate exit facilities
in buildings and structures, he shall issue such notices or orders as may be necessary.
(b) Inspections required under the provisions of the building code shall be made by the
building official or his duly appointed assistant. The building official may accept reports of
inspectors of recognized inspection services, after investigation of their qualifications and
reliability. No certificate called for by any provision of the building code shall be issued
on such reports unless the same are in writing and certified to by a responsible officer of such
service.
(c) The building official shall make comprehensive records of applications of permits
issued, of certificates issued, of inspections made, of reports rendered, and of notices or
orders issued.
(d) All such records shall be open to public inspection for good and sufficient reasons
at the stated office hours, but shall not be removed from the office of the building official
without his written consent.
(e) The building official shall make written reports to his immediate superior once
each month, or more often if requested, including statements of permits and certificates
issued, and orders promulgated.
SECTION 5. LIABILITY
Any officer or employee, or member of the Board of Adjustments and Appeals, charged
with the enforcement of this code, acting for the City in the discharge of his duties, shall
not thereby render himself liable personally, and he is hereby relieved from all personal
liability for any damage that may acture to persons or property as a result of any act required
or permitted in the discharge of his duties. Any suit brought against any officer or employee
because of such act performed by him in enforcement of any provision of this code shall be
defended by the Department of Law until the final termination of the proceedings.
SECTION 6. RIGHT OF ENTRY
The building official, in the discharge of his official duties, and upon proper identification,
s hall have authority to enter any building, structure or premises at any reasonable hour.
SECTION 7. DEFINITIONS.
(a) Wherever the word "Municipality" is used in the building code, it shall be held
to mean the City of Georgetown, Texas.
(b) Wherever the term "Corporation Counsel" is used in the building code, it shall
be held to mean the Attorney for the City of Georgetown, Texas.
SECTION 8. SAVING CLAUSE.
Nothing in this ordinance or in the building code hereby adopted shall be construed
to affect any suit or proceeding now pending in any Court, or any rights acquired, or
liability incurred, nor any cause or causes of action accrued or existing, under any act or
ordinance repealed hereby. Nor shall any right or remedy of any character be lost,
impaired or affected by this ordinance.
SECTION 9. VALIDITY.
The invalidity of any section or provision of this ordinance or of the building code
hereby adopted shall not invalidate other sections or provisions thereof.
SECTION 10. INCONSISTENT ORDINANCES REPEALED.
Ordinance or parts thereof in force at the time that this ordinance shall take effect
and inconsistent herewith, are hereby repealed.
SECTION 11. DATE OF EFFECT.
This ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and after its passage.
Introduced and Passed by the City Council of the City of Georgetown, Texas on first
reading the 11th day of August, 1975 and passed on Second and Final reading this 8th
day of September, 1975.