Ord 1890 2/22/1960ORDINANCE N0, 1890
AN ORDINANCE CREATING THE PLUMBING ADVISORY BOARD OF THE
CITY OF WICHITA FALLS AND DEFINING ITS RESPONSIBILITIES AND
DUTIES.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN OF THE CITY OF
WICHITA FALLS, TEXAS:
SECTION I.
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 eight (8) members,
who shall be appointed by the Mayor, and shall serve for a term
of one (1) year each. One member of said Board shall be a Mech-
anical Engineer, one member of said Board shall be an employee
of the Lone Star Gas Company, two members of said Board shall
be licensed master plumbers, one member of said Board shall be
a licensed journeyman plumber, one member of said Board shall
be an appliance dealer, as defined by the Plumbing Ordinance of
the City of Wichita Falls, one member shall be a wholesale mate-
rial dealer and one member shall be a general building contractor.
The Secretary of said Board shall be the PlumbinS Inspector for
the City of Wichita Falls. All members of said Board shall be
residents of the City of Wichita Falls, Texas, and shall serve
without pay. roti
SECTION II.
The Plumbing Advisory Board shall investigate and make re-
commendations 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 mar-
ket.
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 four (4) 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 un-
due hardship.
SECTION III.
The Plumbing Advisory Board shall promulgate 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 22nd dal of February, A. D. 1960.
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Geo. T. henderson, y Clerk