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TOWNS IMPROVEMENT CLAUSES ACT 1847 - SECT 44

Drains, privies, and cesspools to be under control of commissioners, and to be kept in order by owners.

44. All branch drains, as well within as without the lands or buildings to
which they belong, and all privies, ashpits, and cesspools within the limits
of the special Act, shall be under the survey and control of
the commissioners, and shall be altered, repaired, and kept in proper order at
the costs and charges of the owners of the lands and buildings to which the
same belong, or for the use of which they are constructed or continued; and if
the owner and occupier of any land or buildings to which any such drain,
privy, ashpit, or cesspool belongs neglect, during fourteen days after notice
in writing for that purpose, to alter, repair, and to put the same into good
order, in the manner required by the commissioners, the commissioners may
cause such drain, privy, ashpit, or cesspool to be altered, repaired, covered,
and put in good order; and the expence incurred by the commissioners in
respect thereof shall be repaid to them by the owners by whom the same ought
to have been done, and shall be recoverable as damages.

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