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HomeMy WebLinkAbout405 - Chimney Regulations• • • E • 0 ORDINANCE NO. 405 The City of Newport Beach, by and through its City Council, do ordain as follows, to -wit: SECTION 1. This Ordinance shall be known as the "Chimney Ordinance ". SECTION 2. It shall be unlaw- ful for aany person to do or cause to be done any chimney construc- tion in or upon any building or structure in the City of Newport Beach, without first obtaining a license and permit as hereinafter in this ordinance provided. SECTION 3. The term "Chim- ney Contractor" shall include any person, firm or corporation, gen- eral contractors or builders doing or causing to be done any chimney construction in or upon any build- ing or structure in the City of Newport Beach. The term Chim- ney Contractor shall also include any person, firm or corporation who does or causes to be done any chimney construction on a percentage basis, or anyone who supervises, manages or controls any chimney construction in or upon any building or structure in the City of Newport Beach. SECTION 4. License Required. Any chimney contractor, firm or corporation doing chimney con- struction work in the City of New- port Beach shall first, before do- ing any chimney construction work, obtain a license so to do. Such license shall be issued by the Building Inspector of the City of Newport Beach, only to such per- son, firm or corporation as herein - before stated, upon the payment of a fee of $25.00 in advance: The license shall be for the term of one year from the first day of July. It is hereby declared to be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation, who by Section 3 of this ordinance is a chimney con- tractor, to engage in the chimney construction business or take any contract for, or do any chimney construction work, for which a permit is required, without holding a chimney contractor's license. SECTION 5. Permits. It shall be unlawful for any per- son, firm or corporation, to do or cause to be done, any chimney construction work in or upon any building or structure, which work exceeds Ten Dollars ($10.00) in cost, unless a chimney construc- tion permit so to do has been first obtained as in this ordinance pro- vided. The Building Inspector shall not issue a permit as provided for in this section until the said chimney contractor has obtained a license as provided for in Section 4 of this ordinance. SECTION 6. Fees. The fees to be paid to the Build- ing Inspector for the issuance of a Chimney construction permit for each building on which work is to be done shall be Fifty cents ($.50). In the event said permit shall not be applied for before said work is commenced, a charge of $10.000 shall be paid for the issuance of each permit. SECTION 7. The Building In- spector, upon notification of the permit ho' -der or his agent, shall inspect said chimney. The Inspec- tor at the time of said inspection shall either approve said chimney construction as complying with the Building Code of the City of Newport Beach, or the Building Inspector shall notify the permit holder wherein the work fails to comply with said Building Code, and no mantle shall be built or constructed on said chimney until said chimney construction has been approved by the Building Inspector. SECTION 8. Bonds Every person, firm, company or corporation, before such license shall be granted, shall have a li- cense from the State of California, as provided by the laws of the State of California, and shall fur- ther give a bond to the City of Newport Peach in the sum of $500.00, with two good and suffic- ient sureties to secure any person, or persons against non - payment of bills; which sureties shall qualify that they are worth said sum over and above all liabilities and ex- emptions; which said bond shall be approved by the City Attorney of the City of Newport Beach and shall be filed with the City Clerk thereof. SECTION 9. Penalty Any person, firm or corporation violating any of the provisions of this Ordinance shall be deemed I, Frank Newport Beach, do hereb y No. 405 is a true the City Council of May, 1932, and according to law. guilty of misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punish- able by a fine of not less than Ten Dollars ($10.00) nor more than Three Hundred Dollars ($300.00), or by imprisonment in the County Jail of Orange County, or in the City Jail of the City of Newport Beach, for a term of not less than five (5) days nor more than ninety (90) days, or by both such fine and imprisonment. A Judgment imposing a fine may provide for its collection by imprisonment in either or said jails in the propor- tion of one day for each dollar of the fine until such fine is wholly satisfied. SECTION 10. Repeal All ordinances and parts of or- dinances affecting the subject of this ordinance are repealed insofar as they affect the subject of this ordinance. SECTION 11. This ordinance shall take effect thirty (30) days after its final passage and ap- proval. SECTIO N12. The City Clerk shall certify to the passage of this ordinance and cause the same to be published once in NEWPORT NEWS, a weekly newspaper pub- lished in the City of Newport Beach. I hereby certify that the fore- going Ordinance was introduced at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Newport Beach, held on the 2nd day of May, 1932, and was duly passed and adopted at a regular meeting of said City Council held on the 23rd day of May, 1932, by the fol- lowing vote, to -wit: AYES, Councilmen: Gordon, Claire, Ellsworth, Hilmer. NOES, Councilmen: None. ABSENT, Councilmen: Garfield. Attest: FRANK L. RINEHART, Clerk of the City of Newport Beach. The foregoing ordinance is ap- proved by me this 23rd day of May, 1932. HERMANN HILMER, Mayor of the City of Newport Beach. Attest: FRANK L. RINEHART, Clerk of the City of Newport Beach. Pub. —May 26, 1932. L. Rinehart, Clerk of the City of certify that the foregoing Ordinance and correct copy of an Ordinance passed by at a regular meeting held on the 23rd day that same was printed and published _4� - Clerk of the City o Newport Beach