Section 408.30817. Disconnection of dangerous electrical equipment.

Section 80.18.1 is added to the code to read as follows:

80.18.1.         Disconnection of dangerous electrical equipment. If the use of any electrical equipment is found imminently dangerous to human life or property, the enforcing agency may condemn the equipment or disconnect it from its source of electric supply, except that the enforcing agency shall not disconnect the service entrance equipment or utility service drop wires unless the entrance equipment or utility wires in themselves constitute a hazard to life or property. If the enforcing agency condemns or disconnects dangerous equipment, then the agency shall place a notice on the equipment listing the causes for the condemnation or disconnection and the penalty under the act for the unlawful use of the equipment. The agency shall give written notice of the condemnation or disconnection and the causes for condemning or disconnecting the equipment to the owner or the occupant of the building, structure, or premises. A person shall not remove the notice or reconnect the electrical equipment to its source of electric supply, or use or permit the use of electrical current in the electrical equipment, until the causes for the condemnation or disconnection are remedied and a permit for the electrical repairs of the equipment is obtained from the enforcing agency.

History: 1979 AC; 1981 AACS; 1998-2000 AACS; 2004 AACS; 2013 AACS.