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Contracts to be made or executed to the contrary of this Ordinance.
Double Police rates to be paid for buildings illegally constructed, &c., until abatement.
Saving of Crown remedies.
Every house to have a cooking place and privy.
Penalty.
The Surveyor General shall require the owner or occupier of any house to make good all deficiencies in works of that kind and cause them to be made good.
Public and common privies, sewage places, etc., may be provided.
ORDINANCE No. 8 OF 1856.
Buildings and Nuisances.
5. All contracts hereafter to be made for works contrary to the provisions of this Ordinance shall be null and void, and it shall not be lawful to execute in contravention of the said provisions any contracts heretofore made for works and in force at the passing of this Ordinance, unless the same have heretofore received the sanction of the Surveyor General.
6. Over and above all other penalties and liabilities by this Ordinance imposed, the owner of every building constructed, reconstructed, or altered in contravention of this Ordinance shall pay in respect of the same a periodical Police rate of double the amount to which, but for such contravention he would have been liable in respect of the said building, yet so as that if the same shall be abated, diminished, or removed under the provisions of this Ordinance, the said owner shall cease to be liable to pay any such Police rate in respect thereof.
7. No remedies for breaches of contract committed by Crown lessees or others now vested in the Crown or its officers shall be prejudiced by this Ordinance.
8. It shall not be lawful to construct, reconstruct or (if now in the course of construction or reconstruction) to complete any house without a sufficient and safe place for lighting of fires and cooking of food; and also a sufficient water-closet or privy, and a sufficient ashpit furnished with proper doors and coverings; All which shall be provided to the satisfaction of the Surveyor General, and from time to time emptied and cleansed, at such periods as the Surveyor General may direct; and every person offending against any of the enactments in this section contained shall for every such offence forfeit and pay to the Crown a penalty not exceeding fifty dollars nor less than ten dollars.
9. The Surveyor General shall in case any house whether now existing or hereafter to be constructed or reconstructed shall not be provided or shall be imperfectly provided with any of the works in the last immediately preceding section specified, or with one or more proper drain or drains to the said house of at least six inches in diameter, give written notice of every such deficiency to the owner or occupier of the said house, thereby requiring him to provide for and make good the said deficiency forthwith or within some specified and reasonable term to the satisfaction of the Surveyor General: and in case the said owner or occupier shall not obey or comply with the said requirement, the said Surveyor General shall cause the said works to be executed, and may recover the charges and expenses thereof together with his costs of procedure by summary application to a Stipendiary Magistrate, or any two Justices, who shall, in case of default in payment thereof, levy the amount so recovered by warrant of distress and sale upon the goods and chattels of such owner or occupier, without prejudice to the right of either party to recover over, retain, or deduct against the other the amount so paid or recovered.
10. The Surveyor General may provide and maintain in proper and suitable situations common water-closets, privies, urinals, and other like conveniences for public accommodation; and also proper buildings, pits, places, boxes or other...