Ord 2018-012/amending Chapter 14, Buildings and Building Regulations, of the City Code to implement recent legislation prohibiting the City from collecting fees from members of certain trades before they are authorized to practice their trades in the Cit

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exempt under one of the following: (I) A maintenance person may perform maintenance work only upon property owned by the person's employer. A maintenance person who performs work upon the property of more than one property owner is deemed to be performing work for the general public and shall be licensed as a city residential or general contractor. (2) A property owner may perform construction work with the owner's own hands or use other persons to perform construction work in/on an existing residence owned and occupied by the owner as his homestead. Such other persons performing work for the property owner shall, however, be subject to applicable licensing requirements under state law. All work is subject to permit, inspection and approval in accordance with this chapter. (3) An approved authorized single representative of a political subdivision. Each subdivision is authorized to submit one person to serve as general representative for projects under $8,000.00 for purposes of permitting. This exception does not authorize work outside the political subdivision unless the person holds a general contractors license under this section. (4) A specialist contractor shall be required to register as a Specialist Contractor and may perform work for the general public within the specifications and limitations of the registration. (5) A person licensed by the State of Texas as a trade contractor, including the mechanical, plumbing or electrical trades. SECTION 6. If any word, phrase, clause, sentence, or paragraph of this ordinance is held to be unconstitutional or invalid by a court of competent jurisdiction, the other provisions of this Ordinance will continue in force if they can be given effect without the invalid portion. SECTION 7. All ordinances and resolutions or parts of ordinances or resolutions in conflict with this Ordinance are repealed. SECTION 8. This Ordinance shall be effective upon its adoption on second reading.