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Power of sanitary authority to enforce provision of privy accommodation for houses.
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45. If a house within the district of a sanitary authority appears to such authority to be without sufficient watercloset earthcloset or privy accommodation, and a properly constructed ashpit, the sanitary authority shall, by written notice, require the owner or occupier of the house, within a reasonable time therein specified, to provide sufficient watercloset earthcloset or privy accommodation, and an ashpit constructed as aforesaid, or either of them, as the case may require.
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If such notice is not complied with, the sanitary authority may, at the expiration of the time specified in the notice, do the work thereby required to be done, and may recover in a summary manner from the owner the expenses incurred by them in so doing, or may by order declare the same to be private improvement expenses: Provided, that where a watercloset earthcloset or privy has been and is used in common by the inmates of two or more houses, or if in the opinion of the sanitary authority a watercloset earthcloset or privy may be so used, they need not require the same to be provided for each house.
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