ORD CC 03/26/74 -Southern Standard Building Code• •
No. 74 -2
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER SIX OF THE CODE
OF ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF HUNTSVILLE, TEXAS
BY ADDING AN ADDITIONAL PARAGRAPH TO SECTION 105.4
OF THE SOUTHERN STANDARD BUILDING CODE PREVIOUSLY
ADOPTED AS THE BUILDING CODE OF THE CITY OF
HUNTSVILLE, REQUIRING INFORMATION REGARDING VERTICAL
ELEVATIONS, AND DECLARING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
HUNTSVILLE, TEXAS, THAT CHAPTER SIX OF THE CODE OF ORDINANCES OF
THE CITY OF HUNTSVILLE, ENTITLED THE BUILDING CODE OF THE CITY OF
HUNTSVILLE, TEXAS, BE AMENDED BY ADDING AN ADDITIONAL PARAGRAPH
TO SECTION 105.4 OF THE SOUTHERN STANDARD BUILDING CODE, THE
BUILDING CODE OF THE CITY OF HUNTSVILLE, TEXAS, WITH SUCH ADDITIONAL
PARAGRAPH TO READ AS FOLLOWS:
Section 105.4 PLOT DIAGRAM
(C.) No building permit shall be issued unless adequate
information is furnished showing the proposed
vertical elevation of the finished floor of the
structure in respect to the street and lot corners
and proof that the building is not subject to
flooding by storm water. The city engineer may
require additional engineering data, prepared by
a registered professional engineer, indicating
the calculated 25 year high water elevation of
creeks or drainage channels when the building is
proposed to be placed near the flood plain of
the channel. Finished floor elevations of pro-
posed buildings near the flood plain of a creek
or drainage channel shall be a minimum of two
feet vertically above the calculated 25 year high
water elevation.
No permit shall be issued for buildings or improve-
ments that propose to block the flow of water in
creeks or drainage channels or may cause flooding
of adjacent property.
BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED that Amendment shall be effective
from and after its passage by the City Council of the City of
Huntsville, Texas.
PASSED AND APPROVED in open Council on this va0 41/11- ay
of March, A. D., 1974.
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0 RIS I. WALLER, MAYOR
ATTEST
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ECRETARY
APPROVED AS TO FORM: