244.590. - Discontinuance of required services.
(a) No owner or operator shall cause any service, facility, equipment or utility which
is required to be supplied under the housing maintenance code to be removed, shut
off, or discontinued in any occupied rooming unit, hotel unit, dwelling or dwelling
unit let or occupied by said owner, or operator, except for such temporary interruption
as may be necessary while actual repairs, replacements or alterations are in process
of being made.
(b)
An administrative fee of fifty dollars ($50.00) shall be charged to the bill payer
of a property where water services have been shut off for a period of forty-eight
(48) hours. An additional one hundred dollars ($100.00) administrative fee shall be
charged to the bill payer of a property where the property is placarded with a letter
of intent to condemned for lack of utilities resulting from the water services being
shut off.
(c)
Administrative fees charged for water shut off shall be added to the property's utility
services bill as set forth in section 505.60.