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TOWNS IMPROVEMENT CLAUSES ACT 1847 - SECT 109

Commissioners may direct prosecutions for nuisances, and other proceedings, and may order the costs to be paid out of the rates.

109. The party walls of all buildings erected after the passing of the special
Act within the limits thereof shall be carried through and above the roof, to
form a parapet of not less than twelve inches in height, measured at right
angles with the slope of the roof, above the covering of the roof of the
highest building to which such party walls belong; and all such party walls,
and the external walls of all buildings erected after the passing of the
special Act in or near any street, or within the curtilage of any house
adjoining any street, shall be constructed of incombustible materials, and the
coverings of the roofs thereof shall not, without the previous consent in
writing of the commissioners, be constructed of combustible materials; and it
shall not be lawful for the owner of any building within the limits of the
special Act, having at the passing of the special Act a roof covered with
thatch or other combustible material, and contiguous to or adjoining to any
other building, to suffer such covering to such roof to remain for a longer
period than seven years after the passing of the special Act, unless with the
consent in writing of the commissioners; and every person who shall erect any
building, or cover any roof, or suffer the covering of any roof to continue,
contrary to the provision herein contained, and who shall not remove or alter
the same within one month after notice given to him for that purpose by
the commissioners, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding one pound for
every day that such building or covering to such roof shall so continue.

And with respect to supplying buildings with fresh air:

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