Code of Police Laws (Cap. 10), article 117

117. (1) The owner of any building shall keep in a good state of repair, the cistern, privy, sink or drain for slop water, ce sspool, if any, as well as the respective pipes or other means of communication and the ventilators prescribed by this Code. and to prevent flow or infiltration. (2) He shall also take all necessary steps to prevent any flow o r infiltration from any privy, sink, or drain for slop water or c esspool, or from the respective pipes or conduits, and to prevent any nuisance in his own or in any other tenement. Expense of removing stoppage in disconnecting syphon trap to rest on occupier of house. (3) Nevertheless, the expense of removing any stoppage in the disconnecting syphon trap or in the pipes connecting the privy with the main, and of the cleansing o f any pipe or drain consequent on such stoppage, shall be incumbent on the occupier of the house, unless it is shown that the stopp age existed before he occupied the house, or that it was due to defective construction, or that th e drains CODE OF POLICE LAWS [CAP. 10. 23 are common to more than one tenement. Duty of occupier of building, etc., to keep in good condition fence over open cistern, etc. Amended by: XI.1910.4; XVI.1931.33.