PUBLIC NOTICE - - - ORDINANCE 2025-22 ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF BAKER TO AMEND THE BAKER MUNICIPAL CODE OF ORDINANCES, PART II, CHAPTER 5, BUILDINGS AND BUILDING REGULATIONS RELATED TO CHARGES AND FEES FOR ROOFING CONSTRUCTION INSPECTIONS AND PERMITS AND OTHER MATTERS IN FUTHERANCE The City Council for the City of Baker has determined that the City’s current Code of Ordinances does not adequately address changes in state law related to roofing construction inspections, permits, and fees. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE MAYOR AND COUNCIL of the City of Baker, Parish of East Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in regular session assembled, a proper quorum being there and then assembled, on the 10th day of November 2025, that Chapter 5, Buildings and Building Regulations, Section 5-8, Building Permit and Inspection Fees, be amended to add subsection (j) and thereafter prospectively to have it respectively read as follows: SECTION 1: The Baker Code of Ordinances, Part II, Chapter 5, Buildings and Building Regulations, Section 5-8, Building Permit and Inspection Fees is hereby amended and re-enacted to read as follows: SECTION 5-8. Building Permit and Inspection fees. (j) Roofing Inspection fee. The fee for permits to inspect roofing construction: Flat rate fee: $50.00. SECTION 2: REPEAL All Ordinances and parts of Ordinances in conflict herewith be and the same are hereby repealed. All Ordinances not in conflict herewith and not affected by the amendment hereinabove set forth are hereby maintained in full force and effect as if re-enacted herein. The repeal of an Ordinance shall not affect any punishment or penalty incurred before the repeal took effect, or any suit, prosecution or proceedings pending at the time of the repeal, for an offense committed under the ordinance repealed. SECTION 3: SEVERABILITY It is hereby declared to be the intention of the City Council that the sections, paragraphs, sentences, clauses, and phrases of this ordinance are severable, and if any phrase, clause, sentence, paragraph or section of this ordinance shall be declared unconstitutional by any Court of competent jurisdiction, such unconstitutionality shall not affect any of the remaining phrases, clauses, sentences, paragraphs, or sections of this ordinance since the same would have been enacted by the City Council without the incorporation in this ordinance of any such unconstitutional phrases, clauses, sentences, paragraphs, or sections. If the provisions of this ordinance, or the application thereof to any person, fact, situation or circumstance are held invalid, the remainder of this ordinance and the application of such provisions to the other persons, facts, situations or circumstances, shall not be affected thereby. SECTION 4: INVALIDATION If any provision of this ordinance, or the application thereof is held invalid, such invalidity shall not affect other provisions or applications of this ordinance which can be given effect without the invalid provisions or applications and, to that end, all provisions of this ordinance and application thereof are declared to be severable. This Ordinance having been submitted to a vote; the vote thereon was recorded as follows: YEAS: Collins, Dunn, Murphy, Vincent, Young NAYS: None ABSENT: None ABSTAIN: None And the Ordinance was presented on the 28th day of October 2025, at the regular meeting of the Baker City Council held at the City Hall Building in Baker, Louisiana. And the Ordinance was declared adopted on this, the 10th day of November 2025, at the regular meeting of the Baker City Council held at the City Hall Building in Baker, Louisiana. ATTEST: /s/Angela Canady Wall, LCMC, Clerk of the Council /s/Darnell Waites, Mayor 166964-NOV 18-1T $63.05