OR 60 Adopts the National Electrical Code, 1968 Edition ORDINANCE NO. 60
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF COPPELL, TEXAS, ADOPTING
THE NATIONAL ELECTRICAL CODE, 1968 EDITION; PROVIDING
PENALTIES FOR VIOLATION ON THIS ORDINANCE; REPEALING
ALL ORDINANCES OR PARTS THEREOF IN CONFLICT WITH THIS
ORDINANCE AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF COPPELL, TEXAS:
SECTION 1. TITLE:
This ordinance shall be known as "The City of
Coppell Electrical Code".
SECTION 2. ADOPTION OF CODE:
There is hereby adopted by the City of
Coppell, Texas, that certain National Electrical Code,
1968 Edition, a copy of which is attached hereto as
Exhibit "A" and made a part hereof the same as if fully
set out at length herein, and from the date on which
this ordinance shall take effect the provisions thereor
shall be controling within the City.
SECTION 3. SPECIFIC A~ENDMENTS & MODIFICATIONS:
The Code adopted hereby and attached hereto
as Exhibit "A" is amended as follows:
NONE
SECTION 4. REPEALING CLAUSE:
All ordinances or parts of ordinances inconsistent
or in conflict with the provisions of this ordinance are
hereby repealed. Provided however, the repeal of existing
laws by this ordinance shall not effect or prevent the
prosecution or punishment of any person for or any act
done or committed in violation of any ordinance hereby
repealed prior to the effective date of this ordinance;
and prosecution for such offense may be instituted and
causes presently pending proceeded with in all respects
as if such prior law or ordinance had not been repealed.
SECTION 5. SEVERABILITY CLAUSE:
If any article, paragraph or sub-division, clause,
phrase or provision of this Ordinance shall be adjudged
invalid or held unconstitutional, the same shall not affect
the validity of this Ordinance as a whole or any part
or proviision thereof other than the part so decided to
be invalid or unconstitutional.
SECTION 6. PENALTY CLAUSE:
Any person, firm or corporation violating any
Of the provisions of this Ordinance shall be deemed guilty
of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be fined
not to exceed the sum of $200.00 for each offense and
each and every day such offense is continued shall constitute
a separate offense. Should any section of the Code adopted
by this ordinance be in conflict with this penalty clause
then this section shall be controlling.
SECTION 7. SPECIAL tIANDLING OF OP~DINANCE:
Due to the size of the Volume attached hereto
as Exhibit "A" it is hereby directed that the original
of this ordinance, with volume attached, be kept in a
separate file in the office of the City Secretary, and
that a duplicate original of this ordinance, with a photocopy
of the title sheet of such volume attached thereto, be
placed in the official Ordinance Book.
SECTION 8. E~RGENCY CLAUSE:
The fact that the present City regulations are
inadequate to properly protect the public health, safety
and welfare, creates an urgency and an emergency and requires
that this Ordinance shall take effect immediately from
and after the publication of its caption as the law in
such cases provides.
of Coppell, Texas, this
1970.
ATTEST:
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CITY SECRETARY
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1968 l~¢li!hm o~ },~:~tio;m] l~l~c(ricn~.
This 196g l:dilkm of the l~atlonal lZlcct~icztl Code (NI:I>A No. 70
1968; US:%S C1-196~;) was adopted by the N;~tion:tl Fi~c l'~otcctiun
socialion at its Annt~;d l',lccting held M:W 20-2,1, 1968 in Atlanta,
(;corgla and apl~zox'cd by the Illdied States of America Stand;uds lnsti-
rule on July I I, 196',L It sup~rscdcs all pzcviotts editions of the N;dional
Ek'ct~ical Code, the most recent 13~cvious edition being 1965.
- Chauges in this 1965 Edlticm of Ihc NatloaM }~lcctlical Code (as
con/palcd v,'ith the 1965 l~dition) arc indic:tted by x'c~ final l~nlghlal
rules on t}3c alToclod pages. In cctt;dn cases, minor cdito~kxl cha,gcs
arc not so indicated.
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SpcciM attention is called to the inclusion in this 19~S 1 d t ~
Tcnt;dixc Interim Ai3~clldll~cllls NOS. 146 and 148 alq>c:ning in the Ap-
pendix. Attention i~ al~o nailed to the Appendix for the "Time Schedule
for the 1971 Iq;ttion:d Etcctfic;xl Co3c" x~hich is the ~cxt ~cgtdar edition.
The "NIctho,t of St~bmiUing Ptopos;d to }{cxi>,c the N:~tional ILlcortical
Code" is included in the Appendix to gtdd~ anyone concc~m'd with the
proper procedures fol 13andling p~opo:cd revisions.
q]fis Code is purdy advisory tt~ far as the NFPA and the USASI ate
concerned bkxt is offered for use in lax', and for legkdatory ptxrpo~es in
the intctcit of llfe and property p~otcction (see cop}li~:hl st:,tcment on
Page 70 ii). Anyone t~otlcing a~y ci rots should please notify the NFPA
Executive O~ice, the C}miH~:m and the Secretary of the ('omn~iltcc.
' Thi3 edition is al~o publish,2d by the T~FP:X in the 1968~69 edition of
VolulIlc 5 of the N:~tional Fire Codes and x,ill appc.xr in sub~;cqkxent
yearly editions of this Voktm2 tu;tll superseded by a kdcr edition.
Origin and l)evclol~znelit cf Nntig~;~] ]Clccl!;cal Code
Consistent with the RIdes of Pinendure for the National Electrical
Code Committee (see Appendix) a "PI;EpRINI" OF qltE ]~I:OI'OSED
AMENDMENTS FOP. 1HE 1963 NAqlONkI. UIECqRICAL CODE WaS pub-
lished by the National Fire Protection Association in July 1967. This
"PREPI{INT' recorded the actions of the various Code-Making Pancls
and the Correlating Committee of the National flcctriczxl Code Com-
mittce on each proposal that had been m:xdc to rc,.'i~e the 1965 Code.
Subsequcntly. the various Code-NL~Ling Panels ~B;~lized their recom-
mcndatlons and thcir reports xierc processed thr,,ugh the Correlating
Committee of the National ElcctricM Code Cornre!rice. Thiq ,,vz~s pre-
paratory to the fornml pre;~ntzttion of this 19(.S ~ditioa of the National
Electrical Code in Votum~ 2 of the I96$ NFPA T;C~tN~C.~L
of the Nati'~nal Eicctric.~l Codc CorTm~it:ec. to oil:or ir~tcrc~:z.d NFPA
members, an3 offered to the pdbli2 z}~rou~E: :cc~z~ic:'d rc:,:.:ses i~ the
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