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necessary, enter into a lodging-house, tenement where rooms are 

 rented, or a laundry where the owner or employees reside upon the 

 premises, or other buildings where such officer has reason to suspect 

 that the same are overcrowded or occupied by more persons than is 

 reasonably safe for the health of such occupants. If upon such ex- 

 amination it is found that the premises are occupied by more persons 

 than is reasonable for the health of such occupants, and that the 

 sleeping rooms upon such premises are such that less than 400 cubic 

 feet of air can be provided for each adult occupant of such room or 

 rooms, the same shall be deemed to be overcrowded, and the Health 

 Officer may take such steps as are necessary to remedy the evil. If 

 the rooms, or premises occupied by them are in a filthy or unclean 

 state, or if any matter or thing is there which in the opinion of the 

 Medical Health Officer may endanger the public health or the health 

 of the occupants of such room or rooms, the Medical Health Officer 

 may order the owner or occupant of the premises to remove the in- 

 mates therefrom, or to remove that which causes the premises to be 

 filthy or unclean, and thus place the room or rooms in a condition 

 fit for proper human habitation. In case the owner or occupant of 

 any such lodging-house, tenement or laundry neglects or refuses to 

 obey the orders given by the Medical Health Officer within twenty- 

 four hours after such notice, he shall be liable to the penalties of this 

 Act; and such Medical Health Officer or Sanitary Inspector may also 

 call to his assistance all constables and peace officers and such other 

 persons as he may think fit, and may enter into such lodging-house, 

 tenement or laundry and cleanse the same, and remove the inmates 

 therefrom, and also any matter or thing which causes the premises 

 to be filthy or unclean, and destroy whatever it is necessary to re- 

 move or destroy for the preservation of the public health. 



SEC. 40. When a house or other habitation is ascer- 

 tained to be unhealthy, the municipal sanitary author- 

 ity may cause the persons inhabiting it to leave it and forbid their 

 return until the same has been rendered healthy in the manner pre- 

 scribed by law. 



Art. 507. Under the Municipal Code, the Municipal Council 

 has power to authorize the officers of the council to visit and ex- 

 amine all property, whether movable or immovable, as well as the 

 interior or exterior of every house, building or other edifice, to as- 

 certain whether or not the by-laws of the council are carried out; to 

 oblige owners or occupants of such properties, buildings and edifices 

 to receive the officers of the council, and to answer truly all questions 

 which are put to them relative to the carrying out of such municipal 

 by-laws. 



