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with any watercloset, earthcloset, or privy any apparatus or any
trap or soil pipe, shall, before executing any such works, give
notice in writing to the clerk of the Sanitary Authority.
15. Every owner of an earthcloset or privy existing at the
date of the confirmation of these bye-laws shall, before the
expiration of six months from and after such date of confirmation,
cause the same to be reconstructed in such manner that its
position, structure and apparatus shall comply with such of the
requirements of the foregoing bye-laws as are applicable to
earthclosets or privies newly constructed.
Earth-closets
and privies.
16. When any person shall provide an ashpit in connection Ash-pits,
with a building, he shall cause the same to consist of one or more
movable receptacles sufficient to contain the house refuse which
may accumulate during any period not exceeding one week.
Each of such receptacles shall be constructed of metal and shall
be provided with one or more suitable handles and covers. The
capacity of each of such receptacles shall not exceed two
cubic feet.
Provided that the requirement as to the size of such
receptacles shall not apply to any person who shall construct
such receptacle or receptacles in connection with any premises to
which there is attached as part of the conditions of tenancy the
right to dispose of house refuse in an ashpit used in common by
the occupiers of several tenancies, but in no case shall such
ashpit be of greater capacity than is required to enable it to
contain the refuse which may accumulate during any period not
exceeding one week.
17. The occupier of any premises who shall use any ashpit
shall, if such ashpit consist of a movable receptacle, cause such
receptacle to be kept in a covered place, or to be properly
covered, so that it shall not be exposed to rainfall, and if such
ashpit consist of a fixed receptacle, he shall cause the same to
be kept properly covered.
18. Where the Sanitary Authority have arranged for the
daily removal of house refuse in their district, or in any part