ORDINANCE No. 13 of 1901.
Public Health,
bye-laws and make new bye-laws in lieu thereof. Such altered, amended, or new bye-laws shall not take effect until they have been published in the Gazette,
(e.) Every intermediate floor, platform, or landing of a greater length than six feet and of a greater breadth than two feet, which has not a clear space of at least nine feet, measured vertically, both above and below it, and which is not separately provided with a window or windows opening directly into the external air and having a total area clear of the window frames of at least one-tenth of the floor area, shall be deemed to be a mezzanine floor or cockloft.
Concreting of Ground Surfaces.
72. It shall not be lawful for any person, except caretakers not exceeding two in number, to live in or occupy, or to suffer or permit any other person, except such caretakers, to live in or occupy any domestic building unless-
(a.) The ground surface of such building and of every cook house, latrine, or open surface connected therewith, such as back yards, court yards, or other spaces on which slops may be thrown or from which foul waters flow, shall have been properly covered over with a layer of some impervious material to the satisfaction of the Board, or
(b) The Board shall have granted permission in writing to occupy any such domestic building.
Provided always that this section shall not apply to any domestic building, cook house, latrine, privy or back yard which has been paved to the satisfaction of the Board in accordance with any existing law or bye-law and which is so maintained.
73. Where the ground surface of any domestic building, or of any cook house, latrine, or open surface connected therewith, such as back yards, court yards, or other spaces on which slops may be thrown or from which foul waters flow, is or has been paved or covered over with impervious material to the satisfaction of the Board, and such material has been subsequently broken, excavated or otherwise disturbed, the landlord or owner shall make good the same to the satisfaction of the Board upon the completion of any work for the execution of which the same has been broken or otherwise disturbed, or within seven days from the receipt by him of written notice from the Board so to do, and in default thereof he shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding twenty-five dollars for each offence and to a further penalty not exceeding ten dollars for each day after such conviction during which such offence continues.
74. The floor of every area and of every basement story shall be properly asphalted, or covered over with a layer of good lime or cement concrete at least six inches thick, and shall be finished off smooth with not less than two inches of cement concrete or of such other material as the Board may by any bye-law prescribe. The floor of every such area shall have a fall, from the external wall of such building towards the face of the sill-side, of at least half an inch to the foot.
Overcrowding.
75. Every domestic building and any part thereof found to be inhabited in excess of a proportion of one adult for every thirty square feet of habitable floor space or superficial area and four hundred cubic feet of clear and unobstructed internal air space shall be deemed to be in an overcrowded condition.
76.—(1) It shall not be lawful for any householder or tenant to let or sub-let or allow to be used for occupation any domestic building or any part thereof in or by so large a number of persons as to cause the same to be in an overcrowded condition.
(2.) The householder or tenant (together with his family, if any,) if resident in any such domestic building, shall be counted in ascertaining whether such building or any part thereof is in an overcrowded condition.
(3) Where any domestic building, or any part thereof is ascertained to be in an overcrowded condition between the hours of 11 p.m. at night and 5 a.m. on the following morning, such overcrowding shall be deemed to be prima facie evidence that such building or part thereof was let or sub-let in contravention of this section.
77.—(1.) If any tenement-house, or other domestic building, or portion thereof, shall be found to be in an overcrowded condition, the Board shall, by a written notice, require the tenant of the same, or any portion thereof, and also, if necessary, the householder, to abate such overcrowding, within a period of one week; such notice shall specify the cubic capacity available for habitation in such tenement-house, or other domestic building, and the number of persons which may be legally accommodated therein. If the said notice be not obeyed, it shall be lawful for the Board to apply to a Magistrate, who, on sufficient cause shown, shall summon before him the tenant or occupier of such dwelling-house, or such householder.
(2) If the person summoned admits, or if it be proved to the satisfaction of the said Magistrate that the said house is overcrowded, the Magistrate shall make an order for the abatement of the nuisance forthwith, and inflict a penalty not exceeding twenty-five dollars.”