1977-036NO 77- 3 G
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE CODE OF THE CITY OF DENTON BY ADOPTING
THE UNIFORM BUILDING CODE, 1976 EDITION WITH CERTAIN DELETIONS AND
AMENDMENTS AND CHAPTER 53 OF THE 1977 SUPPLEMENT TO THE UNIFORM
BUILDING CODE PROVIDING PENALTIES FOR VIOLATIONS OF THE NEW CODE
AND DECLARING AN EFFECTIVE DATE
THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF DENTON, TEXAS, HEREBY ORDAINS
PART I
(1) That Section 5-13 of Article II, Chapter Five of the
Code of Ordinances of the City of Denton, Texas, is hereby re-
pealed and supplanted, and shall hereafter read as follows
ARTICLE II Building Code
"Sec 5-13 Adopted
The Uniform Building Code, 1976 Edition and Chapter 53 of the
1977 supplement to the Uniform Building Code, as adopted by the
International Conference of Building Officials copies of which are
on file in the office of the City Secretary, are hereby adopted and
designated as the building code of the city the same as though
said volumes of such code were copied at length herein, subject to
the deletions and amendments enumerated in Section 5-14 hereinafter"
(2) That Section 5-14, sub-sections (a), (b), (c), (d), and
(e) of Article II, Chapter Five of the Code of Ordinances of the
City of Denton, Texas, are hereby repealed, and subsection (f)
"Building Code Board" is retained and is hereby redesignated sub-
section (a) of Section 5-14
PART II
That if any section, subsection, paragraph, sentence, clause,
phrase or word in this ordinance, or application thereof to any
person or circumstances as 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
PART III
Any person who violates any provision of this ordinance shall
be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction, shall be
punished by a fine not to exceed Two Hundred Dollars ($200 00)
Each day such a violation shall continue or be permitted, shall be
treated as a separate offense
PART IV
That this ordinance shall be effective on and after the first
day of August, A D 1977,
to publish the caption of
Chronicle within fourteen
PASSED AND APPROVED
A D 1977
and the City Secretary is hereby directed
this ordinance twice in the Denton Record
(14) days of the date of its passage
this the 67'""oday of '/d/-z ,
I
ELINOR HUGHES, MAYOR
CITY OF DENTON, TEXAS
ATTEST
BAO-OKS HOLT, CITY SECRETARY
CITY OF DENTON, TEXAS
APPROVED AS TO LEGAL FORM
PAUL C ISHAM, CITY ATTORNEY
CITY OF DENTON, TEXAS