(a) The City Health Officer or the County Board of Health is hereby authorized to inspect or cause to be inspected all buildings, tenements and rooms in the City which are used for dwellings or sleeping purposes, for the purpose of ascertaining the sanitary conditions thereof.
(b) If the inspection discloses the premises to be so damp or insufficiently provided with water or toilet facilities as to be the cause of nuisance, sickness or filth, or if the premises or any part thereof is so unsanitary as to be a menace to the health of the occupants thereof or of the public, the inspector shall serve a written notice on the owner, agent or occupant thereof directing the correction or removal of the unsanitary condition, which shall be named in such notice.
(c) If the order is not obeyed and the condition set forth in the notice is not remedied within five days after service of the notice, then, in addition to the penalty provided in division (d) of this section, the inspector is hereby authorized to seek legal action for correction of the condition and, if necessary, vacation of the premises.
(Ord. 36. Passed 8-16-32.)
(d) Whoever fails to comply with the notice provided for in division (b) of this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor. A separate offense shall be deemed committed each day during or on which the noncompliance occurs of continues.