202

Inspection.

Ond. 24 of 18975){ Common

(available)

Ond. 24 18 1887 5.23. the frending

Ond.34 155s s. 3

kitchen not

to be used as

a sleeping

rein.

in case

ORDINANCE No. 13 of 1901.

Public Health,

(3.) On the hearing of the said matter, the Magistrate may make such order for the inspection, at any hour of the night or day, of the said house, as the circumstances of the case may require. Such order to continue in force for a period not exceeding one month.

78. Any room of a tenement-house used as a common kitchen shall not be used as a sleeping room, and the householder, or tenant thereof, shall be responsible that such common kitchen is not so used, nor shall any passage, lobby, or other place, partitioned off from any sleeping room to the height of the ceiling, be included in the calculation of the cubic capacity for human habitation.

Calculation________79. In the calculation of cubic space, for the purposes of this Ordinance, two children ten years, or under ten years of age, shall be counted as one person, and every person over ten years of age shall be considered as an adult.

of children.

Limit of fittings for sleeping accommodation.

Ond, 24 of 18875.73

Common lodging-

(The part of

fan't.

reation which is

windutin is

Other 4 of 18955.

3/

Ond. 24 of 18875.82 Penalty for

Ord. 24 of 1887

5.69

false statements.

Access to

Common

Lodging-

houses,

80 No room fitted with bunks or beds shall be so fitted as thereby to provide sleeping accommodation for a greater number of persons than are by law permitted to occupy it.

Yoon.

Common Lodging-houses.

81. No person shall open, or keep open, a common lodging-house, unless the house is registered and the keeper thereof is licensed by the Registrar General. If any person, who opens or keeps open any common lodging-house contrary to the provisions of this Ordinance, cannot be found, or if the keeper of any common lodging-house which is opened or kept open contrary to the provisions aforesaid is absent from the Colony, the householder as defined by this Ordinance shall be deemed to be the person who opens or keeps open such house and shall be liable accordingly.

ye farson?

82. Any person who shall, in making application for the registration or licensing of a common lodging house, knowingly make any false statement regarding any of the particulars required to be stated in such application, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding twenty-five dollars.

83. The keeper of a common lodging-house, and every other person acting in the care or management thereof, shall, at all times, when required by any officer of the Board, give him free access to such house, or any part thereof, and any such keeper, or person, who refuses such access shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding twenty-five dollars.

on conviction

Woys b

ORDINANCE No. 13 of 1901.

Public Health.

Approval of Domestic Buildings.

Ond. 24 of 1897?

be approved. S. 74

(words underlined

84. No person who shall erect a domestic building shall allow the same or any portion thereof to be occupied, until such building shall have been previously examined by an officer of the Board, duly authorized by the Board, and certified by such officer as having been built in compliance with the entire provisions of this Ordinance.

Such examination shall be made without necessary delay.

Private Streets.

الربيع

كورة

85. Every street on private land, in the rear of domestic buildings, shall be and shall be kept concreted, channelled, and drained, and may, if the Director of Public Works thinks fit, be provided with lighting apparatus, by the Government, at the expense of the owners of the land abutting on such street, and the several owners of such land shall bear the cost of such concreting, channelling, draining and providing with such apparatus, in proportion to the width of their respective land at the place where it abuts on such street, and the Government may recover such proportionate cost, together with interest thereon at the rate of eight per cent. per annum from the date of demand for payment of such proportionate cost made by the Director of Public Works from any such owner, by a suit in the name of the Director of Public Works in the Summary Jurisdiction of the Supreme Court. The cost of the illumination of such street shall, however, be borne by the Government.

All household refuse shall be regularly removed by the Government from every such street.

of private

86. Every street on private land, upon which domestic buildings front, shall, if it does not fall within the provisions of the immediately preceding section of this Ordinance, be and be kept surfaced, channelled, and drained, and may, if the Director of Public Works thinks fit, be provided with lighting apparatus, by the Government, at the expense of the owners of the land abutting on such street, and the several owners of such land shall bear the cost of such surfacing, channelling, draining, and providing with lighting apparatus, in proportion to the width of their respective land at the place where it abuts on such street, and the Government may recover such proportionate cost, together with interest thereon at the rate of eight per cent. per annum from the date of demand for payment of such proportionate cost made by the Director of Public Works, from any such owner by a suit in the name of the Director of Public Works in the Summary Jurisdiction of the Supreme Court. The cost of the illumination of such street shall, however, be borne by the Government.

9.

Ibid, s, 10

Share This Page