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ORDINANCE NO. ~d D~
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 8140, "PLUMBING CODE"
OF THE CITY OF FORT WORTH, TEXAS; TO REPEAL THE REQUIRE-
MENT FOR A SECURITY BOND; TO PROVIDE FOR A BUSINESS REGIS-
TRATION FEE; TO PROVIDE FOR A LICENSE FEE FOR APPRENTICE
PLUMBERS; PROVIDING FOR A PLUMBING PERMIT ISSUANCE FEE;
PROVIDING THAT THIS ORDINANCE IS CUMULATIVE OF ALL PRIOR
ORDINANCES; AND PROVISIONS IN CONFLICT HEREWITH; PROVIDING
A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE; PROVIDING A PENALTY AND FOR PUBLI-
CATION; PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE..
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT WORTH,
TEXAS:
SECTION 1.
That Section 1.15, "Security Bond," of Ordinance 8140,
"Plumbing Code" of the City of Fort Worth, Texas, is hereby re-
pealed, and in its place a new Section 1.15 is substituted, and
hereafter the said Section 1.15 shall be and read as follows:
"Section 1.15 - Business Registration
"Any firm, business or organization consisting of an
individual or individuals licensed as plumbers by the
State of Texas, who are conducting business in the City of
Fort Worth shall register with the City of Fort Worth
Department of Development before October 30, 1983. Each
such registration shall be renewed annually. The fees for
the initial registration and the renewal shall be as fol-
lows:
Initial registration $100.00
Annual renewal $ 50.00"
SECTION 2.
That Ordinance 8140, "Plumbing Code," shall be amended by add-
ing Section 1.12.a thereto, following Section 1.12, and that here-
after the said Section 1.12.a shall be and read as follows:
"Section 1.12.a - Permit Issuance Fee
"A fee ofen dollars ($10.00) shall be charged at
the time of issuance of any plumbing permit."
SECTION 3.
That Ordinance 8140, "Plumbing Code," shall be amended by add-
ing Section 1.16 thereto, and hereafter the said Section 1.16 shall
be and read as follows:
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"Section 1 16 -Apprentice Plumbers - License
"Any individual who serves as an apprentice to any
plumbing firm or business conducting business within the
City of Fort Worth shall pay to the Department of Develop-
ment an annual license fee of $1.25."
SECTION 2.
That, should any portion, section or part of a section of
this Ordinance be declared invalid, inoperative or void far any
reason by a court of competent jurisdiction, such decision, opinion
or judgment shall in no way impair the remaining portions, sections
or parts of sections of this Ordinance, which said remaining provi-
sions shall be and remain in full force and effect.
SECTION 3.
That this Ordinance shall be cumulative of all other ordinances
and of the Code of the City of Fort Worth except in those instances
where the provisions of this Ordinance are in direct conflict with
such other ordinances and such Code, in which instances said con-
flicting provisions are hereby expressly repealed.
SECTION 4.
That any person, firm or corporation who violates, disobeys,
neglects or refuses to comply with or who resists the enforcement of
any of the provisions of this Ordinance shall be fined not more than
Two Hundred and No/100 Dollars ($200.00) for each offense Each day
that a violation is permitted to exist shall constitute a separate
offense.
SECTION 5.
The City Secretary of the City of Fort Worth, Texas, is hereby
directed to publish the caption and penalty clause and effective
date of this ordinance for five (5) days in the official newspaper
of the City of Fort Worth, Texas, as authorized by TEX. REV. CIV.
STATS., Art. 1176b-1.
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SECTION 6
That this Ordinance shall take effect and be in full force and
effect from and after the date of its passage and publication, and
it is so ordained.
APPROVED AS TO FORM AND LEGALITY:
.City Attorney
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`~dfEwoRKS+ REFERENCE SUBJECT City-wide Analysis of User Fees- PAGE
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The: City of Fort Worth contracted with David M Griffith and Associates, Ltd ,
to perform a City-wide analysis of user fees The general findings of this
study were presented at the April 5, 1983, Council workshop. After reviewing
the consultant's recommended fee adjustments with. all affected departments and
appr-opriate advisory boards, City staff refined the fee proposals and presented
recommendations to the Council Audit Committee on April 19
City Council action is required to implement the recommended fee adjustments.
Recommendations
It is recommended that
l.: The attached ordinances be adopted to adjust the following fees
a) Sexually transmitted disease clinic fees from $4 00 to $6.00,
b) Health permits
*1 Food and beverage permits (all categories not otherwise listed),
open-to-the-public swimming pools, lodging, water suppliers,
theatres, places of public amusement from $60 00 to $125 00
2. Frozen dessert permit from $10.00 to $25 00
*3. Fish wholesaler permit from $15.00 to $125.00 ~"~
*4. Fish retailer permit from $5 00 to $125.00
*5. Wholesale fish trucker permit from $15 00 to $125 00
6. Temporary food permit from $0 to $50.00
7. Mobile home park permit from $50 00 plus $1 00 per trailer space to
$125 00 plus $2.50 per trailer space
*8 Meat distributor, poultry distributor, septic tank cleaner permits
from $25.00 to $125.00
*9. Commercial waste hauler permit from $25.00 for one vehicle and
~5:.0.~ for each additional vehicle to $125.00
IO Private waste hauler permit from $5 00 per vehicle to $15 00 per
vehicle
*11 Day care center (excluding not-for-profit centers), private school
permits from $0 to $125 00
* An additional charge of $2.50 per employee will be added fir each
employee involved in the permitted operation up to a total of t~rr-ee ~...
hundred employees, if motor vehicles are involved in the permitted
operation a charge of $6 25 per vehicle will also be added
c) Sexually transmitted disease laboratory fees from $3 00 to $5 00 for
non-Tarrant County Hospital District facilities,
d) Livestock impoundment from $30 00 to $50 00,
e) Livestock advertising from $5 00 to $10 00,
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f) Livestock selling from $5 00 to $10 00,
g) Yellow fever immunization from $3 00 to $10 00,
h) Other occupational license fees from $25.00 to $30 00 for auction
licenses, $25 00 to $30 00 for carnival and circus licenses, $50 00 to
$60.00 for itenerant vendor licenses, $25 00 to $30.00 for massage
establishment, $50 00 to $60 00 for motor vehicle escort services,
$1.00 to $1 25 for motor vehicle escort operator, and
$1.00 to $1.25 for plumbing apprentice licenses,
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i) Auto junkyard license from $50.00 to $500 00,
j) Cement contractor (hereafter to be called "Parkway Contractor") license
from $100.00 to $300 00,
k) Other contractors (hereafter to be called "Street and Storm Drain
Contractor") license fee from $100 00 to $300 00;
1) Dance hall license from $27 09 to ~-58:-84, ~~1b0.0~
m) Taxicab driver license from $1 00 to $10.00,
n) Planning and Zoning fees
1. Concept plans from $100.00 to $500 00
2 Preliminary plats
a) less than 75 acres - from $40.00 + $1 00 per acre to $400 00
b) 75 acres or more - from $40.00 + $1 00 per acre to $300 00
+ $3 00 per acre
3. Replat with public hearings
a) Less than 3 lots -from $40.00 + $.50 per lot to $200 00
b) 3 lots or more - from $40 00 + $.50 per lot to $200 00 + $10 00
per lot
4 Short form plats
a) less than 3 lots -from $40 00 + $ 50 per lot to $150 00
b) 3 lots or more - from $40 00 + $.50 per lot to $150 00 + $10 00
per lot
5 Unified residential plan
a) less than 20 acres - from $40 00 + $1 00 per acre to $200 00
b) 20 acres or more - from $40 00 + $1 00 per acre to $10 00 per
acre
6. Final plat
a) less than 30 lots - from $40.00 + $ 50 per lot to $150 00
b) 30 lots or more - from $40 00 + $.50 per lot to $6 00 per lot
7 Plat vacation -from $40.00 to $200.00
8 Street vacation -from $100 00 to $200.00
9. Easement and alley vacation - from $50 00 to $150 00
10 Zoning applications
a) less than 1 acre - from $225 00 to $500 00
b) 1-5 acres - from $225 00 to $750 00
c) More than 5 acreas - from $225 00 to $1,000.00
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11. Variance, Zoning Board of Adjustment
a) residential - from $25 00 to $100 00
b) commercial - from $50 00 to $150 00
12 Special exceptions, Zoning Board of Adjustment -from $100 00 to
$200 00
13. Interpretation, Zoning Board of Adjustment from $25 00 to $250.00,
o) Electrical Inspections
1 Master electrician annual license renewal from $50 00 to $100 00
2. Journeyman electrician and journeyman sign electrician annual
license renewal from $5 00 to $10.00
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3. Electrical licensing examination fees
a) Master - from $10.00 to $25 00
b) Journeyman -from $2 00 to $10 00,
p) Mechanical Inspection
1 First year contractors license - from $50 00 to $100 00
2 Contractor annual license renewal - from $25.00 to $50 00,
q) Plumbing Inspection - The current $5000 bond requirement will be
eliminated and a plumbing business registration instituted
1 First year business registrations $100 00,
2. Registration renewal fee $50.00,
r) Sign inspection fees tripledg -~'sr 5~ ~S ~o~ ,_,~~urvu,,-~cc~t' ct,v~ ~p~c;.r~ ~
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s) Sign license and renewal from $35 00 to $50.00,
t) Deletion of building permit fee categroy of $500,001 and up total
valuation, with revision to read "$100,001 and up - $433 00 for the first
$100,000 + $2.50 for each additional $1,000 or fraction thereof," and
u) Moving and wrecking permit fees doubled.
2 The attached ordinances be adopted to initiate the following new fees
a) Plan review fees for
1 Food service establishments
a) 0-150 sq ft. - $25.00
b) 151-8,000 sq. ft - $150.00
c) 8,001-20,000 sq ft. - $200.00
d) 20,001 + - $250.00
2. Public swimming pools, public spas, and public water slides - $50 00
3 Mobile food units (exluding snowcone vendors, ice cream truck
vendors, and fruit and vegetable vendors) - $50 00,
b) Sexually transmitted disease laboratory fees for Tarrant County Hospital
District Facilities at $3.00,
c) Birth/death list fees for $.20 per line,
d) Annual license renewal fee for cement and other contractors categories
at $300 00,
a) Dog licenses,
b) Cross connections,
c) Fire alarms,
d) Fire inspections,
e) False burglar alarms,
f) Will Rogers Memorial Center fees.
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li) Botanic Gardens auditorium rental charges increased an average of
51 72%,
i)_ Golf fees from $5 SO to $6.00 for weekend rates, rescind the nine-hole
fee., a charge of $1 00 per round for Fort Worth schools, and from
$350,OO.per team to $1.00 per round for non-Fort Worth school teams,
j) Institution of a fee of $15 00 for summer class at the Nature Center,
k.) Lake sanitation service fee paid by Water and Sewer Fund from $23,000
to $37,914;
1) Title fees from $ 50 to $10 00;
m)_ Weed cutting fees from $63 00 to $200.00,
n) Demolition fees from $100.00 to `$300.00;
o) Codebook sales. from $40.00 to $150.00 and from $10 00 to $25.00 for
supplement,
p) Police accident and offense report sale from $2 00 to $5 00,
q) From an average of $21 75 to an average of $44 00 for crime laboratory
service charges.,
r) Small exhibit building rental from $300 00 per month to $375 00 for dead
storage and from $100.00 to $125.00 for move in and out fee,
s) Cattle barns No. 6 and 8 move in and out fee from $100.00 to $125.00,
t)_ Dead storage fee at cattle barn No 5 from $250.00 per month to $300 00
per month,
u) Overtime. fee. for Will Rogers Memorial Center buildings from $50 00 to
$1QO.Q0,
v) Dead storage fees from $250 00 per month to $300.00 per month and move
in. and out fee from $100 00 to $125 00 for livestock buildings Nos. 1,
2, 3, 4 and 7 and swine and sheep barns,
w) Lake. Worth lease transfer fee from $25 00 to $100 00,
x) Sale of maps and publication fees doubled, and,
y) Updating of property values to reflect 1983 per foot? standards
4 The Council direct the City Manager to develop fee proposals or adjustments
by August 1, 19.83, for the. following fees
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5/10/83 NUMBER
G-5621
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