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Home My WebLink About1989-0762556L ORDINANCE NO j-V j__ AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 5, ARTICLE I (BUILDING CODE) OF THE CODE OF ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF DENTON TO PROVIDE FOR AMEND- MENTS THERETOOSECTION REGARDINGS-3, BY AMENDPERMIT FEES ING THE PROVIDINGS FOR UNIFORM PENALTYBUILDING IN CODE TTHE PROVIDING FOR A MAXIMUM ON SEVERABILITY CLAUSE, NT OF 50PROOVID PROVIDING FOR VFOR AAI THEREOF) REPEALER,AND PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF DENTON HEREBY ORDAINS SECTION I That Subsections (2) through (6) of Section 5-3 of Art c e I of Chapter 5 of the Code of Ordinances of the City of Denton, Texas are hereby amended to read as follows Section 5-3 Deletions and Amendments (2) Section 301(a), Permits, is amended to read as follows Permits Required Except as specified in subsection (b) of this section, no building or structure regulated by this code shall be erected, constructed, enlarged, altered, repaired, moved, improved, removed, converted or demolished unless a separate permit for each building or structure has first been obtained from the building official A separate electrical, plumbing, mechanical and one driveway rmiapproach newermitoneoshall not be required when a building feeet or less in floor area or r two family dwelling of 4,599 square for an apartment complex is issued Individual building, electrical, plumbing and mechanical permits are required for additions, remodels and repairs to one and two family dwellings and apartment buildings (3) Section 304(b), Permit Fees, is amended to read as follows it Pemit SectFons 308 and eTables eNoh 3-Am and shall as set sforth fort in sections 5-3 (5) and 5-3 (6) a of this article Section 304(c), Plan Review Fees, is deleted Section 304(d), Expiration of Plan Review, is amended to read as follows Applications for which no permit is issued withinoneunfired eight (180) days following the date of application reor vire iew by limitation, thereafter be lans and retur returned ttor then applicant submitted for destroyed by the building official Section 304(f)(3), Fee Refunds, is amended to read as follows The building official shall not authorize the refunding of any fee paid except upon written application filed by the original permittee not later than one hundred eighty (180) days after the date of fee payment (4) Section 305(g), Reinspections, fourth paragraph, is amended to read as follows To obtain a reinspection, the applicant shall pay the rein- spection fee as set forth in the fee schedule titled, "Other Insectnb of s article hen requestioaRFeinspectiononin-3the ) manner prescribed and t by the building official din Fees,The to theition of Section Uniform Building Code, toareaenasB oil owe Permit A permit fee shall be calculated for each multi -family apart- ment building, dg by4defined in the Uniform BuilinCode 11088 cents per square foot Prmit No3Bis ) glNcreated goireangasefollowsFees, is amended and Table TABLE 3-A Fees for Non -Residential Buildings and a Total Valuation Fee $1 to $500 $5 $501 to $2,000 $5 for the first $500, plus $1 for each additional $100 or fraction thereof, to and including $2,000 $2,001 to $25,000 $20 for the first $2,000, plus $4 additional $1,000 or for each fraction thereof, to and including $25,000 $25,001 to $50,000 112 for the first $25,000, plus for additional $1,000 or 3 each fraction thereof, to and including $50,000 $50,001 to $100,000 us 1287foro additional first 0�$11,000000, plor eache fraction thereof, to and including $100,000 PAGE 2 rst plus $100,001 to $500,000 31850 ffor teachfladditional $1,000 or fraction thereof, to and including $500,000 $500,001 and up V for° ea headditionalfirst 0 $10,000p1or fraction thereof To establish building permit fees for all new construction and additions other than new one and two family dwellings of 4,599 square feet or less in floor area and multi -family dwellings, multiply eleven dollars ($11 00) by the total square footage under roof, enter that valuation into table No 3-A and increase the results by one half To establish building permit fees for all alterations, fire damage, repairs, remodeling, and accessory ebuildingss multiply six dollars fifty cents ($6 50) by square enter that valuation into the above schedule and then increase the results by one half TABLE 3-B Permit Fee Schedule For New One and Two -Family Dwellings Each half of a two-family dwelling shall be treated as a separate building for the purpose of determining permit fees Total Square Fee Total Square Ft Under Roof Fee Ft Under Roof 0-1272 $255 30 2800-2818 $367 372 76 26 1273-1299 261 265 30 44 2819-2899 2900-2909 375 94 1300-1363 1364-1399 271 44 2910-2999 380 380 44 68 1400-1455 274 280 58 58 3000 3001-3090 385 18 1456-1544 1545-1636 286 58 3091-3099 389 68 28 1637-1727 292 298 58 58 3100-3181 3182-3199 395 399 78 1728-1799 1800-1818 301 02 3200-3272 403 10 60 1819-1899 307 307 02 29 3273-3299 3300-3363 17 1900-1909 1910-1999 313 29 3364-3399 411 417 67 65 2000 313 319 63 63 3400-3454 3455-3499 422 15 2001-2090 PAGE 3 Total Square Ft Under Roof Fee Total Square Ft Under Roof Fee 2091-2099 $325 63 3500-3545 $426 431 62 12 2100-2181 326 332 42 42 3546-3599 3600-3636 436 36 2182-2199 2200-2272 333 74 3637-3699 440 86 2273-2299 338 24 3700-3727 3728-3818 446 450 05 55 2300-2363 2364-2399 339 343 11 22 3819-3909 455 05 2400-2454 346 36 3910-4000 459 464 55 05 2455-2499 350 353 86 21 4001-4090 4091-4199 478 55 2500-2545 2546-2599 357 71 4200-4272 483 05 2600-2636 358 76 4273-4363 4364-4454 487 492 55 05 2637-2699 2700-2727 363 363 26 26 4455-4545 496 50 2728-2799 367 76 4546-4599 499 55 SECTION II That Section 5-3 (13) through (15) of Article I of C apter of the Code of Ordinances of the City of Denton are hereby renumbered (14) through (16) SECTION III That Section 5-3 (13) of Article I of Chapter 5 of t e Co e o Ordinances of the City of Denton shall hereby read as follows (13) Section 2903, Excavations and Fills, is amended by adding a new paragraph (c) to rea as o ows (c) Trench Safet Notwithstanding any other provision of this Co e, on a construction projects, public or private, within the boundaries of the City of Denton or its extraterri- torial jurisdiction, the bid documents and the contract shall contain (1) detailed plans and specifications for ufor safety systems that meet OSHA standards, and (2) a pay item those safety systems This requirement shall not apply to persons subject to safety standards adopted under Article 6053-1, V T C S , and subject to the administrative penalty provisions of Article 6053-2, V T C S SECTION IV Any person who shall violate a provision of this ordinance— e , or fails to comply therewith or with any of the requirements thereof, or of a permit or certificate issued there- under, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor punishable Each uch yafin not exceeding Five Hundred Dollars ($500 00) person and everday or portionethereof during all be deemd guiltof a swhich any eparate f violat nse ion eofhthis ordinance is PAGE 4 committed, or continued, and upon conviction of any such viola- tions such person shall be punished within the limits above SECTION V That if any section, subsection, paragraph, sen- tence, clause, phrase or word in this ordinance, or application thereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid by any court of competent jurisdiction, such holding shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this ordinance, and the City Council of the City of Denton, Texas, hereby declares it would have enacted such remaining portions despite any such invalidity SECTION VI That the repeal of any ordinance or any portion thereot by t e preceding sections shall not affect or impair any act done or right vested or accrued or any proceeding, suit or prosecution had or commenced in any cause before such repeal shall take effect, but every such act done, or right vested or accrued, or proceedings, suit or prosecution had or commenced shall remain in full force and effect to all intents or purposes as if such ordinance or part thereof so repealed had remained in force SECTION VII That this ordinance shall become effective fourteen ays from the date of its passage, and the City Secretary is hereby directed to cause the caption of this ordinance to be published twice in the Denton Record -Chronicle, the official newspaper of the City of Denton, Texas, within ten (10) days of the date of its passage PASSED AND APPROVED this theG?ijeday of' 1989 ATTEST JENNIFER W TERS, C TY SE Y APPROVED AS TO LEGAL FORM DEBRA ADAMI DRAYOVITCH, CITY ATTORNEY BY / —� PAGE 5