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Article 5, 6 or 7 of this Chapter, or of any ordinance, rule, or regulation pertaining thereto, or, in the
<br />judgment of the Building Official to be defective or unsafe or dangerous to person or property, the
<br />Building Official shall have the authority and power to prohibit the further use thereof until the said
<br />unlawful, defective, unsafe, or dangerous conditions with respect thereto shall have been remedied,
<br />and said Building Official is likewise further authorized and empowered thereupon summarily to
<br />disconnect any such electrical equipment from its source of current supply and to place a seal upon
<br />such disconnected equipment, or to disconnect the supply or service wires to the building or premises
<br />wherein or whereon such equipment is located and to place a seal thereon, or to order and require the
<br />person supplying electrical energy to such equipment to disconnect the supply or service wires and
<br />discontinue the supply of electrical energy to such equipment. It shall be unlawful for any person to
<br />fail, neglect, and refuse to comply with any such notice within the time and in the manner therein
<br />specified.
<br />Section 7-5-785: NOTICE OF DISCONNECTION. Whenever the Building Official,
<br />pursuant to Section 7-5-780, disconnects any electrical equipment, or orders andrequiresthe same to
<br />be disconnected, a notice in writing, stating the reason for such disconnection, shall be given to the
<br />person owning or in charge or control of such electrical equipment, or shall be conspicuouslyposted
<br />on the premises whereon the said equipment is located; and whenever the Building Official likewise
<br />disconnects or orders and requires the disconnection of any supply or service wires, notice in writing,
<br />stating the reason for such disconnection shall also be given to the person supplying electrical energy
<br />through such supply or service wires.
<br />Section 7-5-790: RESERVED.
<br />Section 7-5-795: APPROVAL AFTER CONNECTION OF CONDElVINED
<br />EQUIPMENT. When any electrical equipment shall have been condemned and disconnected in
<br />accordance with the foregoing provisions of this Chapter, it shall thereafter be unlawful for any
<br />person to reconnect such electrical equipment to any source of electrical energy, or to cause it to be
<br />so reconnected, or to use any electrical current in, through, or by means of such electrical equipment,
<br />or to supply any electrical energy thereto, or to remove or break any seal placed thereon, until the
<br />unlawful, defective, unsafe, or dangerous conditions with respect to such electrical equipment shall
<br />have been remedied and the Building Official shall have inspected and approved the same."
<br />Section 3. Severability.
<br />If any section, subsection, subdivision, paragraph, sentence, clause or phrase of the Ordinance
<br />is for any reason held to be unconstitutional, invalid, or ineffective by any court of competent
<br />jurisdiction, such decision shall not affect the validity or effectiveness of the remaining portions of
<br />this Ordinance or any part hereof. The City Council hereby declares that it would have passed each
<br />section, subsection, subdivision, paragraph, sentence, clause phrase of the Ordinance irrespective of
<br />the fact that one or more of them would be declared unconstitutional or invalid. To this end, the
<br />provisions of the Ordinance are declared to be severable."
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