Ord 084-84 7/17/1984 ORDINANCE NO. 84-84
ORDINANCE REPEALING SECTION 7-32 , CODE OF ORDINANCES,
AND AMENDING SECTIONS 7-28 AND 7-29 , CODE OF ORDINAN-
CES, TO PROVIDE FOR REVISED NOTIFICATION PROCEDURES
TO BE FOLLOWED IN NUISANCE ABATEMENT PROCEEDINGS .
WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Wichita Falls deems
it appropriate to continue to provide a fair and reasonable
opportunity for owners of dangerous and hazardous structures to
repair such structures; and,
WHEREAS, it is the desire of the City Council to establish
new procedures assuring proper notification to such owners of
dangerous and hazardous structures.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF WICHITA FALLS , TEXAS, THAT:
SECTION 1 . Section 7-32 of the Code of Ordinances of the
City of Wichita Falls, Texas, is hereby repealed.
SECTION 2 . Section 7-28 of the Code of Ordinances of the
City of Wichita Falls, Texas, is hereby amended to read as follows:
"Sec. 7-28 . Duties of the building inspector and fire marshal .
(a) Inspect or cause to be inspected, when necessary, all
public buildings, schools, halls, churches, theaters, hotels,
tenements or apartments, other multi-family residences, commercial
manufacturing buildings for the purpose of determining whether any
conditions exist which render such places a "dangerous building or
structure" within the term of Section 7-25 of this article.
(b) Inspect any building, wall or structure about which
complaints are filed by any person to the effect that a building wall
or structure is or may be existing in violation of this article.
(c) Determine the names and current addresses of the owners
and other persons having an interest in any building found to be a
"dangerous building or structure" by reviewing the deed records of the
county in which the structure is situated. In the event that the
current addresses of the owners or other persons having an interest
in the property cannot be ascertained from county deed records,
the building inspector or fire marshal shall attempt to determine
their current addresses by:
(1) reviewing the records and accounts of the
various departments of the City of Wichita Falls;
(2) interviewing the occupants or owners of
adjoining property;
(3) reviewing telephone and city directories; and,
(4) contacting relatives of the owners and other
persons having interest in the structure.
(d) Provide written notice to the owner and other persons
having an interest in the structure by personal service or certified
mail at their current address. If the owners and other interested
persons or their current address cannot be determined, such notice
shall be published in a newspaper of general circulation, not less
than three (3) times within a fifteen day period.
(e) Set forth in the notice provided for in subsection (d)
hereof, a description of the building or structure deemed unsafe,
a statement of the particulars which make the building or structure
a "dangerous building" and an order requiring the same to be put
in such condition as to comply with the terms of this article.
Such order shall state that (1) the owner must vacate or repair,
or demolish said building or structure in accordance with the terms
of this notice and this article; (2) the occupant or lessee must
vacate said building or structure or may have it repaired in accord-
ance with the notice and remain in possession; (3) the owner or other
persons having an interest in said building or structure, may at his
own risk, repair, vacate, or demolish said building or structure or
have such work or act done , provided that any person notified under
this subsection to repair, vacate or demolish any building or
structure shall be given such reasonable time, not exceeding sixty
(60) days as may be necessary to do or have done, the work or act
required by the notice provided for herein.
(f) Report to the City Council in its capacity as building
commission any noncompliance with the "notice" provided for in
subsections (d) and (e) hereof .
(g) Appear at all hearings conducted by the City Council
in its capacity as building commission and testify as to the
conditions of "dangerous buildings" .
(h) Place a notice on all "dangerous buildings" upon a
determination by the City Council that the structure is hazardous,
reading as follows :
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This building has been found to be a dangerous
building by the City of Wichita Falls building
inspector and fire marshal. This notice is to
remain on this building until it is repaired,
vacated, or demolished in accordance with the
notice which has been given the owner. It
is unlawful to remove this notice until such
notice is complied with. "
SECTION 3 . Section 7-29 , Subsection (a) of the Code of
Ordinances of the City of Wichita Falls, Texas, is hereby amended
to read as follows :
" (a) Upon receipt of a report of the building inspector
and fire marshal as provided for in Section 7-28 , subsection (f)
hereof, notice shall be given as required by Section 7-28 , subsection
(d) to the owners and all other persons having an interest in said
building, to appear before said commission on a date specified in
the notice to show cause why the building or structure reported to
be a "dangerous building" should not be repaired, vacated or
demolished in accordance with the statement of particulars set
forth in the building inspector' s and fire marshal' s notice provided
for herein in Section 7-28 , subsection (e) . "
SECTION 4 . Section 7-29 , subsection (b) of the Code of
Ordinances of the City of Wichita Falls, Texas, is hereby amended
to read as follows:
" (b) Hold a hearing and hear such testimony as the building
inspector and fire marshal and the owner, or any other person having
an interest in said building, shall offer relative to the determina-
tion of the question of whether the building or structure in question
is a dangerous building . "
SECTION 5 . Section 7-29, subsection (d) of the Code of
Ordinances, City of Wichita Falls, Texas, is hereby amended to read
as follows:
" (d) Upon a determination that the building or structure
in question does constitute a "dangerous building" within the meaning
of Section 7-25 hereof, to issue an order based upon findings of
facts made pursuant to subsection (c ) [this section] commanding
the owner or any other person having an interest in said building
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to repair, vacate or demolish any building found to be a "dangerous
building" within the terms of this article. "
PASSED AND APPROVED this the 17th day of July
1984 .
A Y O R ,.0001°°°../
ATTEST:
City Clerk
ORDINANCE NO.81-84
ORDINANCE-REAPPROPRIATING
FUNDS BETWEEN DEPART- Affidavit of Publication
"MENTS WITHIN THE GENERAL
FUND FOR THE PURPOSE OF
CONSOLIDATING THE FIRE
PREVENTION AND INSPECTION
DIVISIONS, AND DECLARING THE STATE OF TEXAS
,.AN EMERGENCY
ORDINANCE NO.82-84 COUNTY OF WICHITA
•ORDINANCE WAIVING SEC-
/ TIONS 4-15,22-1 AND 22-4 OF
THE CODE OF ORDINANCES TO ere
ALLOW THE, • 0 s CON-
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1984,FOR THE NINTH ANNUAL
"CHICANO DAY AT THE PARK". Katherine H. Parrish
ORDINANCE NO.83-84 �
ORDINANCE WAIVING SEC-
, bookkeeper
' TIONS 31-51,31-54,AND 31-55
OF THE R OF ODINANCES,
REQUIRING AND REGULATING for the Times Publishing Company of Wichita Falls, publishers of the
THE USE OF TAXIMETERS IN VE-
HICLES REQUIRING CHAUFFER-
FOR HIRE,AND SECTION
31-47 Wichita Falls Record News, a newspaper published at Wichita Falls in
3.1-47,
DRIVEN VEHICLES FOR HIRE TO
BE PLAINLY MARKED, SAID Wichita County, Texas, and upon being duly sworn by me, on oath states
WAIVERS REQUESTED FOR THE
PURPOSE OF OFFERING LIMOU-
SINE SERVICE WITHIN THE CITY that the attached advertisement is a true and correct copy of advertising
BY STEVE KNUDSEN, D/B/A/
PRESITGE LIMOUSINE, AND'
MICHAEL F. GRIFFIN, D/B/A/ published in, One 1 issues thereof on the following
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ORDINANCE NO.84-84 dates:
ORDINANCE REPEAUNG SEC-
TION
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TION 7-28 AND 7-29,CODE OF
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REVISED NOTIFICATION �,�yc ° ■.-J,
PROCEDURES TO BE FOLLOWED
IN NUISANCE ABATEMENT Bookkeeper for Times Publishing Company
PROCEEDINGS.
ORDINANCE NO.85-84 of Wichita Falls
ORDINANCE CLOSING HEAR-
ING AND FINDING A CERTAIN
BUILDING AND/OR STRUCTURE Subscribed and sworn to before me this the day and year first above
TO BE DANGEROUS, AND RE-
QUIRING IMMEDIATE DEMO-P•EAL written.
LITION TO PRESERVE LIFE AND
PROPERTY IN THE CITY OF ..10."'!:n'',..4
WICHITA FALLS;ORDERING IM- (
MEDIATE DEMOLITION OF SAID JOY DAVIS \-'��'h �«�‘-....•
BUILDING AND/OR STRUCTURE; ,_
DECLARING AN EMERGENCY. > Notary Public, Texas / , /
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