Code of Police Laws (Cap. 10), article 124

124. The owner or occupier of any house is bound to whitewash and purify such house, within a r easonable time, regard being h ad to the size of the house, wheneve r he is so ordered by the sani tary authority, for preventing or checking the spreading of any dise ase which is, in the opinion of the General Services Board, epidemi c or communicable by contagion or inf ection, saving the right, if an y, of the person defraying the necessary expense, to recover such expense from t he other, accord ing to law. Prohibition to keep animals of the bovine species, etc., in common tenement-houses, Amended by: XIV .1885.1; XI.1910.5; XIX.1926.8; XVI.1931.37,38; XXXVII.1937.2.