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No. 6 of 1901.
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RATING.
Owner of tenement to allow numbering. Maintenance of number. Offences and penalties.
**Numbering of tenements.**
41. Every owner or occupier of any tenement shall allow such tenement to be numbered with such number and in such manner as the Assessor may direct.
42. The owner or occupier of such tenement shall allow the maintenance or alteration of such number to the satisfaction of the Assessor, and shall not alter, conceal, remove, deface, or obliterate it.
Offences.
43. The penalties hereinafter mentioned for the following offences against this Ordinance shall be recoverable in a summary way at any time within two years from the commission of the offence :-
(1) every owner or occupier of a tenement who refuses or neglects to furnish the particulars required under section 4 shall be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars;
(2) every person who knowingly makes any false or incorrect statement in furnishing the particulars specified in Form No. 1 in the Schedule shall be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars for each tenement in respect of which such false or incorrect particulars are furnished;
[cf. Schedule. Form No. 2.]
(3) every owner or occupier of a tenement who refuses to exhibit, when required, to the Assessor any receipt for rent, or any book or other document relevant to the valuation, shall be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars;
(4) every person who prevents, hinders, or obstructs the Assessor from entering, inspecting, and measuring any tenement, after delivery of due notice of his intention to do so and after the lapse of twenty-four hours from such notice, shall be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars;
(5) every person who prevents, hinders, or obstructs the numbering, or the maintenance or alteration of the number, of any tenement shall be liable to a fine not exceeding twenty-five dollars;
(6) every person who conceals, removes, defaces, or obliterates the number of any tenement shall be liable to a fine not exceeding ten dollars; and also, in a case where such concealment or obliteration arises from the act of the owner or occupier of such tenement, shall be liable to a fine of one dollar for each day during which it is continued;
* As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1924,
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