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TOWNS IMPROVEMENT CLAUSES ACT 1847 - SECT 75

Ruinous or dangerous buildings to be taken down or secured by owners, &c.

75. If any building or wall, or anything affixed thereon, within the limits of
the special Act, be deemed by the surveyor of the commissioners to be in a
ruinous state, and dangerous to passengers or to the occupiers of the
neighbouring buildings, such surveyor shall immediately cause a proper board
or fence to be put up for the protection of passengers, and shall cause notice
in writing to be given to the owner of such building or wall, if he be known
and resident within the said limits, and shall also cause such notice to be
put on the door or other conspicuous part of the said premises, or otherwise
to be given to the occupier thereof, if any, requiring such owner or occupier
forthwith to take down, secure, or repair such building, wall, or other thing,
as the case shall require; and if such owner or occupier do not begin to
repair, take down, or secure such building, wall, or other thing within the
space of three days after any such notice has been so given or put up as
aforesaid, and complete such repairs, or taking down or securing, as speedily
as the nature of the case will admit, the said surveyor may make complaint
thereof before two justices, and it shall be lawful for such justices to order
the owner, or in his default the occupier (if any), of such building, wall, or
other thing, to take down, rebuild, repair, or otherwise secure, to the
satisfaction of such surveyor, the same, or such part thereof as appears to
them to be in a dangerous state, within the time to be fixed by such justices;
and in case the same be not taken down, repaired, rebuilt, or otherwise
secured within the time so limited, or if no owner or occupier can be found on
whom to serve such order, the commissioners shall with all convenient speed
cause all or so much of such building, wall, or other thing as shall be in a
ruinous condition, and dangerous as aforesaid, to be taken down, repaired,
rebuilt, or otherwise secured, in such manner as shall be requisite; and all
the expences of putting up every such fence, and of taking down, repairing,
rebuilding, or securing such building, wall, or other thing, shall be paid by
the owner thereof.

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