<div class="chunk-title">Sec. 14-32. - Inspections.</div>
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               (a)
               
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               The chief inspector shall also serve as codes enforcement officer for the following
               municipalities: Concord, Harrisburg, Kannapolis, Midland, and Mt. Pleasant.
               
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               (b)
               
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               As the work pursuant to a permit progresses, local codes enforcement officers shall
               make as many inspections of the work as may be necessary to satisfy them that it is
               being done according to the provision of the applicable state and local laws and local
               ordinances and regulations and the terms of the permit. Strings showing outside wall
               locations and grade markers are required to show depth of concrete. In exercising
               this power, each member of the public safety services department has a right, upon
               presentation of proper credentials, to enter on any premises within the territorial
               jurisdiction of the department at any reasonable hour for the purposes of inspection
               or other enforcement action.
               
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               (c)
               
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               The public safety services department shall make periodic inspections, subject to
               the board of commissioners' directions, for unsafe, unsanitary, or otherwise hazardous
               and unlawful conditions in buildings within its territorial jurisdiction. In addition,
               it shall make any necessary inspections when it has reason to believe that such conditions
               may exist in a particular building. In exercising these powers, each member of the
               public safety services department has a right, upon presentation of proper credentials,
               to enter on any premises within the territorial jurisdiction of the department at
               any reasonable hour for the purposes of inspection or other enforcement action.
               
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               (d)
               
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               At the conclusion of all work done under a permit, the appropriate codes enforcement
               officer shall make a final inspection. If he finds that the completed work complies
               with all applicable state and local laws, local ordinances and regulations and with
               the terms of the permit, he/she shall issue a certificate of occupancy. No new building
               or part thereof may be occupied, no addition or enlargement of an existing building
               may be occupied, and no existing building that has been altered or removed may be
               occupied until the public safety services department has issued a certificate of occupancy.
               A temporary certificate of occupancy may be issued permitting occupancy for a stated
               period of specified portions of the building that the chief inspector finds may safely
               be occupied before completion of the entire building. Violation of this subsection
               constitutes a misdemeanor.
               
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               (e)
               
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               It shall be unlawful to secure permanent electrical power to the premises before a
               final inspection. A violation of this subsection is punishable as a misdemeanor.
               
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               (Ord. of 5-13-91, Â§ 5; Ord. of 7-17-95; Ord. No. 1999-06, 6-21-99; Ord. No. 2003-04,
               3-17-03;
               <a class="ordinance-link" href="" data-product-id="12658" data-ordinance-id="1170755">
                  Ord. No. 2021-32
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               , Â§ 4, 12-20-21)
               
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            <p class="refstatelaw0" block_type="hang"><b>State Law referenceâ€” </b>
               Similar provisions, G.S. 153A-360, 153A-363, 153A-364.
               
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