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Sec. 359. Disobedience of sanitary orders of mayor or
board of health.

If any person, after being notified by the Board of Health, or
by the Mayor, to remove anything belonging to him or found on
premises owned or occupied by him, or any nuisance caused by
him, or to bury or destroy anything belonging to him, or found
on premises owned or occupied by him, shall fail to do do for
twenty-four hours after such notice, he shall forfeit $2 for each
hour of such failure after the expiration of the said twenty-four
hours; and it shall be the duty of the Mayor to have the same
done at the expense of the city, which expense shall be reimbursed


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to the city by the person through whose default the same was
incurred, together with twenty per centum upon the amount as
a fine.