(A) The issuance or granting of a permit or approval of plans and specifications shall not be deemed or construed to be a permit for, or an approval of, any violation of any of the provisions of this subchapter. No permit presuming to give authority to violate or cancel the provisions of this subchapter shall be valid, except insofar as the work or use which it authorized is lawful.
(B) The issuance or granting of a permit or approval of plans shall not prevent the Administrative Authority from thereafter requiring the correction of errors in said plans and specifications or from preventing construction operations being carried on thereunder when in violation of this subchapter or of any other ordinance or from revoking any certificate of approval when issued in error.
(C) Every permit issued by the Administrative Authority under the provisions of this subchapter shall expire by limitation and become null and void, if the work authorized by such permit is not commenced within 120 days from date of issuance of such permit, or if the work authorized by such permit is suspended or abandoned at any time after the work is commenced for a period of 120 days, before such work can be recommenced, a new permit shall be first obtained, and the fee shall be one-half the amount required for a new permit for such work, provided no changes have been made, or will be made in the original plans and specifications for such work; and provided, further, that such suspension or abandonment has not exceeded one year.
(1991 Code, § 8.76)