Chap. 0222 An Act to provide for the further protection of the public health in the city of boston.

Be it enacted, etc., as fulloics:
Section 1. Section one of chapter two hundred and nineteen of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven is hereby amended by striking out in the hfth line, the words "human habitation", and inserting in place thereof the word: - use, - by inserting in the tenth line, after the word "vacate", the words: - or cease to use, - by inserting in the twenty-fifth line, after the word "specified", the words: - and said building shall be no longer used, - by striking out in the thirtieth and thirty-first lines, the words " which has been ordered by said board to be vacated ", and by adding at the end of said section the words: - and if said building is not removed in accordance with said order said board of health shall remove the same at the expense of the city, - so as to read as follows : - Section 1. Whenever the board of health of the city of Boston shall be of opinion that any building or any pari thereof in said cit}r is infected with contagious disease, or by reason of want of repair has become dangerous to life, or is unfit for use because of defects in drainage, plumbing, ventilation, or in the construction of the same, or because of the existence of a nuisance on the premises which is likely to cause sickness among its occupants, said board may issue an order requiring all persons therein to vacate or cease to use such building or part thereof stated in the order, for reasons to be stated therein as aforesaid. Said board shall cause said order to be affixed conspicuously to the building or part thereof, and to be personally served on the owner, lessee, agent, occupant or any person having the charge or care thereof; if the^owner, lessee or agent cannot be found in the said city, or docs not reside therein, or evades or resists service, then said order may be served by depositing a copy thereof in the postoflice of said city, postpaid and properly inclosed and addressed to such owner, lessee or agent at his last known place of business or residence. Such building or part thereof shall be vacated within ten days after said order shall have been posted and mailed as aforesaid, or within such shorter time, not less than forty-eight hours, as in said order may be specified, and said building shall be no longer used ; but whenever said board shall become sat-
isfied that the danger from said building or part thereof has ceased to exist, or that said building has been repaired so as to be habitable, it may revoke said order. Whenever in the opinion of the board of health any building or part thereof in said city is because of age, infection with contagious disease, defects in drainage, plumbing or ventilation, or because of the existence of a nuisance on the premises which is likely to cause sickness among its occupants, or among the occupants of other property in said city, or because it makes other buildings in said vicinity unfit for human habitation or dangerous or injurious to health, or because it prevents proper measures from being carried into effect for remedying any nuisance injurious to health, or other sanitary evils in respect of such other buildings, so unfit for human habitation that the evils in or caused by said building cannot be remedied by repairs or in any other way except by the destruction of said building or of any portion of the same, said board of health may order the same or any part thereof to be removed ; and if said building is not removed in accordance with said order said board of health shall remove the same at the expense of the city.
Section 2.   This act shall take effect upon its passage.
Approved April 1, 1S99.