11. Keeper of a Common Lodging-House-Any person licensed to keep a Common Lodging-House.
12. New Building.--Any structure, begun after the commencement of this Ordinance or of which the enclosing walls have not been carried higher than the footings, or such old buildings as shall for the purposes of reconstruction be taken down to an extent exceeding one half, such half to be measured in cubic feet.
13. Occupier.-The person in actual occupation of any premises.
14. Owner-Any house-owner, or the person for the time being receiving the rent of any premises, solely or as joint-tenant, or tenant in common with others, or receiving the rent of any premises whether on his own behalf or that of any other person, or where the owner cannot be found or ascertained the occupier; and for the purposes of this Ordinance every mortgagee in possession shall be deemed an Owner.
15. Person-(and words applied in this Ordinance to any individual). Corporations, Companies, and Associations.
16. Premises.-Any land, building, or structure of any kind, footway, yard, alley, court, garden, stream, nullah, pond, pool, paddy-field, marsh, drain, ditch, or place open, covered, or enclosed, cess-pool or foreshore, also any vessel or boat lying within the waters of the Colony.
17. Secretary, The Secretary to the Sanitary Board duly appointed under the provisions of Section 5 of this Ordinance.
18. Tenant-Any person who leases direct from any Householder the whole of any floor or floors of any building or tenement-house.
19. Tenement-House-Any domestic building let to and inhabited by more than one occupier or family, as tenants of a common landlord, or as sub-tenants of a tenant of any portion of such domestic building.
20. Unhealthy.-Any thing which is in the opinion of the Board injurious to Health.
21. Vessel-Any steam or sailing ship, launch, junk, lighter, sampan, or boat.
4. The Board shall consist of the Surveyor General, the Registrar General, the Captain Superintendent of Police, the Colonial Surgeon, and not more than five additional members, three of whom shall be appointed by the Governor, one elected by the Chamber of Commerce and one by the Justices of the Peace. Non-official members of the Board shall hold office for three years.
5. The Governor shall appoint the President, Vice-President, and Secretary of the Board, and the names of all members appointed to the Board shall be forthwith notified in the Government Gazette, and any number of the Government Gazette containing a notice of any such appointments shall be deemed sufficient evidence thereof before any Magistrate or Court of Law.
6. If any member of the Board be at any time prevented by absence or other cause from acting for more than six months, the Governor may appoint or if the member has been elected the electors may nominate some other person to replace such member, until he shall be able to resume his functions.
7. The Board shall be held to be legally constituted notwithstanding any vacancies occurring therein by death, absence, resignation, or incapacity of any member.
8. The Governor may appoint such officers as he shall see fit to be Sanitary Superintendent, Sanitary Surveyors, Inspectors of Nuisances, and such other servants as the Board may from time to time recommend and there shall be paid from the Colonial Treasury to such officers such salaries and allowances as the Governor with the consent of the Legislative Council may from time to time determine.
9. The Board shall meet once in every alternate week and oftener if need be, and may adjourn from time to time. The President may at any time, and shall on a requisition signed by three members of the Board summon a meeting thereof.
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Keeper of Common Lodging-House.
New Building.
Occupier.
Owner.
Person.
Premises.
Tenant.
Tenement-House.
Unhealthy.
Vessel.
Constitution of the Board.
President, Vice-President and Chairman.
Substitute members.
Vacancies.
Sanitary Staff.
Board meetings.