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96. Any person in whose possession there shall be found any food liable to seizure under Section 25 of this Ordinance shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding One Hundred dollars or to imprisonment not exceeding three months.
97. Any person or persons who shall in making application for registration or licensing of a Common Lodging House, knowingly make any false statements regarding any of the particulars required to be stated in such application, shall on conviction before a Magistrate be liable to a penalty not exceeding twenty-five dollars.
98. Any person who shall contravene any provision of this Ordinance for which no special penalty is provided shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding fifty dollars.
99. All penalties imposed by this Ordinance or by any Bye-Laws thereunder may be recovered in a summary manner before a Magistrate at the suit of the Secretary.
100. Where proceedings under this Ordinance are competent against several persons in respect of the joint act or default of such persons, it shall be sufficient to proceed against one or more of them without proceeding against the others.
Schedule A.
The following Ordinances or parts of Ordinances and all Rules made thereunder are repealed ---
No. 12 of 1856, sections 2, 3, 4, 5, 12, and 15.
No. 8 of 1858, sections 18 and 19.
No. 10 of 1872, section 6.
No. 7 of 1883.
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Registration of houses.
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NOTICE is hereby given to you on behalf of the Sanitary Board that the Nuisance specified hereunder is found to exist in your premises No.
and that you are therefore hereby required within a delay of
from the time of service upon you of the present Notice to abate such Nuisance in the manner hereunder set forth, failing which you will be liable to a fine of
By Order of the Sanitary Board.
Nature of Nuisance.
Action to be taken for the Abatement of the Nuisance.
Secretary.
Bye-laws for the proper sanitary maintenance of Common Lodging-Houses made under Ordinance of 1887, Section 13, Sub-section 14.
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1. A Register of all Common Lodging-Houses shall be kept by the Registrar General in the form of Schedule C appended to these bye-laws.
2. Before a house can be registered as a Common Lodging-House, an application must be made to the Registrar General in the form of the Schedule hereunto appended, setting forth the situation of the house, the number of the rooms to be set apart for lodgers and the cubic capacity of each room so set apart, and for this purpose the schedule or form will be furnished by the Registrar General.
3. The Registrar General shall transmit each application for the registration of a house as a Common Lodging-House to the Sanitary Board, and the Board shall then cause the house specified in such application to be inspected by one or more of its Officers who shall submit a report to the Board on the sanitary condition of such house, and its suitability for use as a Common Lodging-House.
4. Any house to be registered as a Common Lodging-House must be substantially built and in a good state of repair, the floors must be paved with tiles or concrete or boarded with planks close jointed, and all the rooms which are to be used as sleeping rooms must be on all sides above the level of the ground immediately surrounding the house. The house-drains must be in good order and constructed in accordance with the bye-laws regulating house drainage, there must be adequate kitchen, lavation, privy, urinal and ash-bin accommodation to the satisfaction of the Sanitary Board.