Ord 2020 4/22/1963 - r
ORDINANCE NC . Al) A0
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING ORDINANCE NO . 1890,
CREATING PLUMBING ADVISORY BOARD AND PRO-
VIDING FOR AUTHORITY THEREOF,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN OF THE CITY
OF WICHITA FALLS, TEXAS:
SECTION 1. There is hereby created a Board of Advisors
for the City of Wichita Falls which shall be known as the
Plumbing Advisory Board. The Plumbing Advisory Board shall
consist of five (5) members, who shall be appointed by the
Mayor, and shall serve for a term of two (2) years each.
One member of said Board shall be a Mechanical Engineer, one
member of said Board shall be an employee of Lone Star Gas
Company, one member of said Board shall be a licensed master
plumber, one member of said Board shall be a licensed jour-
neyman plumber, and one member of said board shall be an
individual who is in no way associated with any of the other
four members of the Board. The Secretary of said Board shall
be the Plumbing Inspector for the City of Wichita Falls, Texas.
All members of said Board shall be residents of the City of
Wichita Falls, Texas and shall serve without pay.
On the first Board appointed hereafter, three members
shall be appointed to serve one year terms, and two members
shall be appointed to serve two year terms . Thereafter,
each member shall be appointed to serve two years.
SECTION 2. The Plumbing Advisory Board shall investi-
gate and make recommendations to the Board of Aldermen of
the City of Wichita Falls , as to modifications in the Plumbing
Code of the City of Wichita Falls , and use of new materials
that come onto the market.
The Plumbing Advisory Board shall have authority to
grant modifications or variances to the Plumbing Code of the
City of Wichita Falls for any specific case. In varying the
applications of any provision of the Plumbing Code or in
modifying an order of the Plumbing Inspector not less than
three (3) affirmative votes shall be required. Any such
decision shall be in writing and shall specify in what manner
such variation or modification shall be made and the conditions
upon which it shall be made and the reasons thereof , one of
which reasons must be to prevent undue hardship .
SECTION 3. The Plumbing Advisory Board shall promul-
gate its own rules of procedure and shall meet at such times,
as it may set, and shall be subject to called meetings by
either the Secretary of said Board or the Chairman of said
Board.
PASSED AND APPROVED this day of April, 1963.
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ATTEST: 1
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M AYOR
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