OR 102 Adopts Dallas Mechanical Code to regulate construction, installation, etc. of heating & cooling systems ORDINANCE NO. 102
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF COPPELL, TEXAS,
ADOPTING THE MECHANICAL CODE OF THE CITY OF DALLAS AS ESTABLISHED
BY CITY OF DALLAS ORDINANCE NUMBER 13425; MAKING CERTAIN AMEND-
MENTS TO THE SAID DALLAS MECHANICAL CODE; SAID CODE REGULATING
AND CONTROLLING THE DESIGN, CONSTRUCTION INSTALLATION, QUALITY
OF MATERIALS, LOCATION, OPERATION, AND MAINTENANCE OF HEATING,
VENTILATING, COMFORT COOLING, REFRIGERATION SYSTEMS AND OTHER
MISCELLANEOUS HEAT PRODUCING APPLIANCES; PROVIDING FOR INSPEC-
TION, THE ISSUANCE OF PERMITS AND THE COLLECTION OF FEES THEREFOR;
REPEALING ALL PARTS OF ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT WITH THIS ORDINANCE;
PROVIDING A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE; PROVIDING PENALTIES FOR THE
VIOLATION OF THIS ORDINANCE NOT TO EXCEED THE SUM OF TWO HUNDRED
DOLLARS ($200.00) FOR EACH OFFENSE 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
MECHANICAL CODE".
SECTION 2. ADOPTION OF DALLAS ~CHANICAL CODE.
There is hereby adopted by the City of Coppell,
Texas, for the purpose.of providing requirements for safeguard-
ing persons and property and promoting the welfare of the
public, that certain MECHANICAL CODE OF THE CITY OF DALLAS, TEXAS,
as established by City of Dallas Ordinance Number 13425, save
and except portions as are hereinafter deleted, modified, or
amended. A copy of said adopted code 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 this ordinance shall
take effect the provisions thereof shall be controlling within
the corporate limits of the City. Where the words "City of
Dallas" are used in the adopted Code they shall mean City of
Coppell. Likewise, language in the Code shall be construed,
where necessary, to apply to the City of Coppell. Reference to
other City of Dallas Ordinances and Codes shall be construed to
to refer to like Ordinances or Codes which are applicable to
the City of Coppell.
SECTION 3. SPECIFIC A~NDMENTS TO THE DALLAS
~CHANICAL CODE.
The Mechanical Code of the City of Dallas adopted
by this ordinance and attached hereto as Exhibit "A" is amended
as follows:
(a) Section 202 is amended to read:
"In order to determine the suitability of
alternate materials and methods of con-
struction and to provide for reasonable
interpretations of the provisions of this
Code, there shall be and is hereby created
a Board of Appeals consisting of five (5)
members, all of whom shall reside within
the corporate limits of the City of Coppell.
Members shall be appointed by the City
uouncil or if such members are not so
appointed the City Council shall sit as
the Board of Appeals.
POWERS AND DUTIES OF THE BOARD OF APPEALS.
The Board shall have the power to pass upon
the true intent and meaning of the several
provisions of the Mechanical Code and also on
questions wherein it is claimed that an
equally good or desirable form of installation
or material can be used, and to permit the
same, but it is expressly limited to those
matters. The Board shall have no power to
otherwise limit, modify, or change this Code
the same to be accomplished only by ordinance
amending the Code. All rulings and decisions
of the Board shall be final and binding upon
all parties, and upon making its decision on
any matter it shall be the duty of the Building
Official to enforce the decision of the Board.
APPEAL PROCEDURE. Any person aggrieved by any
decision or ruling made by the Building Official
under the provisions of this Code, shall have
the right to make an appeal to the Board. Such
appeals shall be made by filing with the Building
Official, a written notice specifying the grounds
therefor. The Building Official shall forthwith
transmit to the Board all of the papers and the
record upon which the action appealed from is
made.
SECTION 4. REPEALING CLAUSE:
Ail parts of ordinances inconsistent or in conflict
with the provisions of this ordinance are hereby repealed.
However, the repeal of existing ordinances by this
ordinance shall not effect or prevent the prosecution or the
punishment of any person for any act done or committed prior
to the effective date of this o~dinance in violation of any~
ordinance hereby repealed; and prosecution for such offenses
may be instituted and causes presently pending proceeded with
in all respects as' if such prior ordinance or ordinances 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 in-
valid or held unconstitutional, the same shall not affect the
validity of Lhis Ordinance ~ ~ whoi~ or any part or provision
thereof other than the part so decided to be invalid or uncon-
stitutional.
SECTION 6. PENALTY CLAUSE:
Any person, firm or corporation violating any of the
provisions of this Ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a mis-
demeanor and, upon conviction, shall be fined not to exceed the
sum of two hundred ($200.00) dollars for each offense and each
and every day such offense is continued shall constitute a new
and separate offense.
SECTION 7. EMERGENCY CLAUSE:
The fact that the present City regulations are in-
adequate to properly protect the public health, safety and
welfaref 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 pro-
vides.
SECTION 8. SPECIAL HANDLING OF ORDINANCE:
Due to the size of the Volume attached hereto as
Exhibit "A" it is hereby directed that the original of this
Ordinance, with Exhibit "A" attached, be kept in a separate
file in the office of the City Secretary, and that a duplicate
original of the Ordinance, with a photocopy of the cover sheet
of such Volume, be placed in the Official Ordinance Book.
DULY PASSED by the City Council of the City of
Coppell, Texas, this / ~ ~ day of ~~ 19 ~-/.
MAYOR
ATTEST:
CITY SECRETARY
APPROVED AS TO FOR~4:
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