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electrical work and all electrical equipment insofar and to such an extent as maybe necessary for the adequate enforcement of such laws, ordinances, orders, rules and regulations, and shall inspect and reinspect any and all electrical work and electrical equipment at such times and as often as, in the discretion of the Building Official, may be necessary to determine that such laws, ordinances, orders, rules and regulations shall have been or are being complied with. All electrical equipment now existing or that may hereafter be installed, shall be subject to such supervision, inspection and reinspection. Section 7-5-775: RESERVED. Section 7-5-780: DISCONNECTION OF ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT. Whenever the Building Official finds any electrical equipment to have been unlawfully installed, changed, or altered, or to be operated or used in a manner or under conditions contrary to the provisions of Article 5, 6 or 7 of this Chapter, or of any ordinance, rule, or regulation pertaining thereto, or, in the judgment of the Building Official to be defective or unsafe or dangerous to person or property, the Building Official shall have the authority and power to prohibit the further use thereof until the said unlawful, defective, unsafe, or dangerous conditions with respect thereto shall have been remedied, and said Building Official is likewise further authorized and empowered thereupon summarily to disconnect any such electrical equipment from its source of current supply and to place a seal upon such disconnected equipment, or to disconnect the supply or service wires to the building or premises wherein or whereon such equipment is located and to place a seal thereon, or to order and require the person supplying electrical energy to such equipment to disconnect the supply or service wires and discontinue the supply of electrical energy to such equipment. It shall be unlawful for any person to fail, neglect, and refuse to comply with any such notice within the time and in the manner therein specified. Section 7-5-785: NOTICE OF DISCONNECTION. Whenever the Building Official, pursuant to Section 7-5-780, disconnects any electrical equipment, or orders and requires the same to be disconnected, a notice in writing, stating the reason for such disconnection, shall be given to the person owning or in charge or control of such electrical equipment, or shall be conspicuously posted on the premises whereon the said equipment is located; and whenever the Building Official likewise disconnects or orders and requires the disconnection of any supply or service wires, notice in writing, stating the reason for such disconnection shall also be given to the person supplying electrical energy through such supply or service wires. Section 7-5-790: RESERVED. Section 7-5-795: APPROVAL AFTER CONNECTION OF CONDEMNED EQUIPMENT. When any electrical equipment shall have been condemned and disconnected in accordance with the foregoing provisions of this Chapter, it shall thereafter be unlawful for any person to reconnect such electrical equipment to any source of electrical energy, or to cause it to be so reconnected, or to use any electrical current in, through, or by means of such electrical equipment, or to supply any electrical energy thereto, or to remove or break any seal placed 4