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AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND THE CODE OF THE CITYOF PORTSMOUTH, VIRGINIA, 1973, AS AMENDED, BY AMENDING SECTION 6-7, 6-8, 6-13, 6-15, 6-17, AND 6-18 OF THE BUILDING CODE, TO CONFOR~ TO CHANGES IN THE UNIFORM STATEWIDE BUILDING CODE. -BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City of Portsmouth, Virginia: 1.. That Section. 6-7 of the Code of the City of Ports- mouth, Virginia, 1973, as amended, be amended and reordained to read as follows: Section 6-7. Organization. (a) BUILDING OFFICIAL: The department of building in- spections of the Cty of Portsmouth is hereby created, and the executive official in charge thereof shall be known as . th~ building official, who shall be appointed by the city . manager of the City of Portsmouth. Said building official shall not be removed from office except for cause, and after full opportunity has been granted him to be heard on specif~ic and relevant charges by and before the city manager. Thebuilding official shall supervise the following'divisions, which are a part of the department of building inspection. (b) DIVISION OF PLUMBING INSPECTION: The division of plumbing inspection shall be supervised by the senior plumbing inspector, who shal! have such assistants as may, from time to time, be authorized .. ' - by the city manager and appointed by the building offidial. The term "plumbing official" wherever ~ used in this Code shall be synonymous with the term "plumbing inspector". (1) QUALIFICATIONS: The Senior plurabing inspector and assistant' plumbing inspectors shalI have at !eas~ five (5) years experience,.each, as either an engineer or a master plu~er ' .(which term is synonymous with the term "Plumbing Worker Level II"' as found in Section 15.1-11~4 and Section 36-90 of the Code of ' Virginia, 1950, as amended, and is utilized by the State Department of Housing and Community Development or as a journeyman plumber, whore synonym is Plumbing Worker Level I. in accord with the language of~the above-referenced sections of the State Code, and who must have received a certificate of proficiency from either the City's Board for Examination of-Plumbers or from the State. The terms utilized, which have synonyms as indicated above, shallbe interchangeable with their respective synonyms in all parts ef the Code. (c) DIVISION OF ELECTRICAL INSPECTION: The ~ivision of electrical inspection shall be supervised by the senior electrical inspector, who sh~ll have such assistants as may., from time to time, be authorized by the city manager and appointed by the building official. The term "electrical official" wherever used in'this Code shall be synonymous with the term "electrical inspector".