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(c) Interference with Repair or Demolition Work Prohibited No person shall obstruct, impede or interfere with any officer, employee, contractor or authorized representative of this jurisdiction or with any person who owns or holds any estate or interest in any building which has been ordered repaired, vacated or demolished under the provisions of this Code; or with any person to whom such building has been lawfully sold pursuant to the provisions of this Code, whenever such officer, employee, contractor or authorized representative of this jurisdiction, person having an interest or estate in such building or structure, or purchaser is engaged in the work of repairing, vacating and repairing, or demolishing any such building, pursuant to the provisions of this Code, or in performing any necessary act preliminary to or incidental to such work or authorized or directed pursuant to this Code. Section 7 -5 -265 Repair and Demolition Fund (a) General. The City shall establish a special revolving fund to be designated as the Repair and Demolition Fund. Payments shall be made out of said fund upon the demand of the Building Official to defray the costs and expenses which may be incurred by the City in doing or causing to be done the necessary work of repair or demolition of dangerous buildings. (b) For purposes of this section, costs and expenses incurred by the City shall include, but shall not be limited to, the following: actual labor costs of City personnel, including benefits and administrative overhead; costs of equipment operation; cost of materials obtained directly by the City; cost of any contract labor, equipment and materials; and costs of suit and attorney's fees. (c) Maintenance of Fund. The City may at any time transfer to the Repair and Demolition Fund, out of any money in the general fund of such sums as it may deem necessary in order to expedite the performance of the work of repair or demolition, and any sum so transferred shall be deemed a loan to the Repair and Demolition Fund and shall be repaid out of the proceeds of the collections recovered pursuant to Article 13. All funds collected under the proceedings hereinafter provided for shall be paid to the Finance Director of this jurisdiction who shall credit the same to the Repair and Demolition Fund. City departments and offices shall be reimbursed for their actual costs and expenses incurred in doing or causing to be done the necessary work or repair or demolition of dangerous buildings." Section 3 Severability If any section, subsection, subdivision, paragraph, sentence, clause or phrase of the Ordinance is for any reason held to be unconstitutional, invalid, or ineffective by any court of competent jurisdiction, such decision shall not affect the validity or effectiveness of the remaining portions of this Ordinance or any part hereof. The City Council hereby declares that it would have passed each section, subsection, subdivision, paragraph, sentence, clause phrase of the Ordinance irrespective of the fact that one or more of them would be declared unconstitutional or invalid. To this end, the provisions of the Ordinance are declared to be severable. ORDINANCE NO. 2010-014