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that no water is allowed to stagnate; and that no coconut husks, empty cans, ar injurious substances, nor such as may used as food or shelter by rats, be thrown out. Building material shall only be allowed to be deposited in vacant spaces when the house itself is to undergo repairs.

SEC. 3. Gardens, parks, and vacant lots must be kept clean, but the right is reserved to cultivate therein flowers, plants, or grass, fruit trees or coconut trees, the latter to be properly protected against rodents.

SEC. 4. All vacant lots or unimproved sites which are within the urban zone, or within a town, must be fenced in and kept clean from underbrush, provided that said vacant lots or parcels of land may be utilized for gardens or orchards. They shall not be used as permanent deposits for lumber and other building material nor for secondhand articles, nor as a dumping place for rubbish, unless the same shall be burned within a maximum period of 48 hours.

SEC. 5. All houses or edifices must be provided with water for domestic purposes to the quantity of not less than 150 available liters for each inhabitant. They shall also be provided with a sufficient number of faucets on each floor.

SEC. 6. When, for lack of payment of water taxes, any municipality shall proceed to cut off the water supply from any house or edifice, said municipality shall immediately forward to the director of sanitation a list of such contributors as have failed to make payments, specifying the name, place of residence, and sums charged to each, and as soon as this list has been received the director of sanitation shall immediately notify the owner, owners, or agent of the said house or edifice, who within a period of 24 hours (which period can not be extended), dating from the receipt of said notification, shall proceed to pay in full all taxes and overcharge dues for which he is indebted.

SEC. 7. If said owner, owners, or agent shall fail to pay the said amount in full within the specified time the director of sanitation or sanitary authority to whom the right may appertain shall pay the account in full, and the municipality shall at once renew the water supply.

SEC. 8. The sanitary authority shall notify the owner, owners, or agent that within another period of 24 hours the amount paid out by the sanitary authority must be refunded to the director of sanitation, as well as all expenses incurred, in accordance with article 31 of the law of sanitation now in force; and if the owner, owners, or agent should refuse to refund said amount after receiving notification of same, he shall be liable to punishment in accordance with article 33 of the law of sanitation, without prejudice to the liability incurred under the civil law and to the fees which, for filing notification of the expenses incurred, are authorized in the last paragraph of article 33 of the law of sanitation.

SEC. 9. In all houses or edifices, all cisterns, tanks, or other deposits for water shall be kept in such manner that they will not impart dampness to the living rooms and that they will not receive filtrations from pipes or cesspools, and they shall be kept tightly covered with mosquito-proof wire-screened covers, and only such fountains and jets of water as shall be constantly supplied with running water shall be allowed. SEC. 10. In houses or edifices which are equipped for occupancy, an adequate number of baths and showers shall be installed, and this requirement shall be essential if intended for rental.

SEC. 11. The floors of bathrooms, kitchens, and water-closets must be of imper meable material, and the walls, if of stone, must be reenforced to a height of 14 meters with the same material, and if of wood must be painted in oil paints.

SEC. 12. Kitchens shall be provided with chimneys and hoods which will insure the free outlet of smoke and gases. Said chimneys must be kept constantly in good working order, provided that this section shall not be applicable to kitchens in which electricity, gas, or oil is used.

SEC. 13. All houses or edifices, as well as outhouses and the plumbing systems of same, must be kept in good sanitary condition. Inner walls, as well as all doors and windows, must be kept smooth and free from cracks and properly painted or whitewashed. In localities where wooden buildings are authorized, care shall be taken to see that the walls and beams of same are kept in good condition, free from rotten or worm-eaten wood and that they are properly painted. The roofs shall be kept in good condition so as to avoid dampness within the dwelling. Roofs, ceilings, double partitions, walls, and floors shall be kept in rat-proof condition.

SEC. 14. No underground cellar or room shall be used as a dwelling. When one of the sides of the floor, however, is situated above the natural level of the site, the same may be inhabited, but no part of a site whose floor is situated more than 14 meters below the natural level of the soil may be destined for habitation. The outside walls and floors of these sites must be rendered impermeable to moisture by building them of concrete or by reenforcing those made of stone with the same impermeable material, and in every case they must be situated on lands that are well drained.

SEC. 15. In towns provided with [aqueducts, sewers, or sewerage system, all houses and edifices must be provided with water-closets which have been approved and have therefore been accepted as serviceable and which have free discharge into the said sewer, to the exclusion of any other system of latrine. In towns not provided with aqueducts or sewerage system and where cesspools have to be used, the same shall be built at a distance of not less than 10 meters from wells, cisterns, bedrooms, and kitchens, or as far as possible therefrom within the limits of the property, but the director of sanitation shall be notified in order that he may dictate in each case the requirements of such construction. Said cesspools shall be kept proof against inundations from rainfall. In both cases said installations shall fulfill the requirements set forth in the regulations governing plumbing, approved September 5, 1912.

SEC. 16. The owner or agent of any house or edifice must have drains and cesspools cleaned before they get too full and overflow. He shall also see that said drains and cesspools are treated with quicklime, calcium chloride, creoline, or any other disinfectant, when the service of sanitation shall, for any special reason, so require it. He shall also see that any deficiencies in the construction of water-closets, latrines, drains, or cesspools which may be the cause of troublesome emanations be corrected.

SEC. 17. Garbage and other household refuse shall be deposited in metal receptacles, which shall be provided with handles and with a tight-fitting cover, the said receptacles to be in good condition, free from cracks and holes through which the contents may leak out. They shall be placed at the greatest possible distance from the living rooms, provided that said garbage and refuse may be burned every 48 hours, when the house or edifice has sufficient and appropriate land pertaining to it upon which said burning may take place without detriment to public health. SEC. 18. In no case shall hogs or pigs be allowed to be kept in yards, corrals, or environs of any house or edifice within the urban zone or within a town nor within a distance of 100 meters from the limits of said urban zone or of a town, provided that this disposition does not apply to the corrals of the slaughterhouses.

SEC. 19. The installation of stables and barns within the urban zone or in a town shall not be authorized unless these same shall be built in well-ventilated sites and shall be maintained in accordance with the specifications set forth in the rules and regulations governing the construction and making rat proof of all buildings and outhouses in the island of Porto Rico, approved July 11, 1912.

SEC. 20. If barnyard fowls are kept within the urban zone, a rat-proof feeding place shall be built, the floor of which shall be at least 2 square meters, shall be made of concrete and may be covered with clean sand or gravel. The walls shall be sunk in the ground to a depth of 2 feet and extend 1 foot above the level of the floor. The floor and walls shall be at least 4 inches thick, the sides and roof shall be of one-half och mesh wire netting or of any other rat-proof material. It shall be provided with

that no water is allowed to stagnate; and that no coconut husks, empty injurious substances, nor such as may used as food or shelter by rats, be thr Building material shall only be allowed to be deposited in vacant spaces ~ house itself is to undergo repairs.

SEC. 3. Gardens, parks, and vacant lots must be kept clean, but the ri served to cultivate therein flowers, plants, or grass, fruit trees or coconut latter to be properly protected against rodents.

SEC. 4. All vacant lots or unimproved sites which are within the urba within a town, must be fenced in and kept clean from underbrush, provide vacant lots or parcels of land may be utilized for gardens or orchards. Th be used as permanent deposits for lumber and other building material nor hand articles, nor as a dumping place for rubbish, unless the same shall within a maximum period of 48 hours.

SEC. 5. All houses or edifices must be provided with water for domestic the quantity of not less than 150 available liters for each inhabitant. Th be provided with a sufficient number of faucets on each floor.

SEC. 6. When, for lack of payment of water taxes, any municipality. to cut off the water supply from any house or edifice, said municipality diately forward to the director of sanitation a list of such contributors as make payments, specifying the name, place of residence, and sums ch and as soon as this list has been received the director of sanitation shal notify the owner, owners, or agent of the said house or edifice, who with 24 hours (which period can not be extended), dating from the receipt cation, shall proceed to pay in full all taxes and overcharge dues fo indebted.

SEC. 7. If said owner, owners, or agent shall fail to pay the said within the specified time the director of sanitation or sanitary authori right may appertain shall pay the account in full, and the municipali renew the water supply.

SEC. 8. The sanitary authority shall notify the owner, owners, or a another period of 24 hours the amount paid out by the sanitary au refunded to the director of sanitation, as well as all expenses incurre with article 31 of the law of sanitation now in force; and if the owner, should refuse to refund said amount after receiving notification of s liable to punishment in accordance with article 33 of the law of sa prejudice to the liability incurred under the civil law and to the fee notification of the expenses incurred, are authorized in the last parag of the law of sanitation.

SEC. 9. In all houses or edifices, all cisterns, tanks, or other depos be kept in such manner that they will not impart dampness to the that they will not receive filtrations from pipes or cesspools, and t tightly covered with mosquito-proof wire-screened covers, and on and jets of water as shall be constantly supplied with running water SEC. 10. In houses or edifices which are equipped for occupa number of baths and showers shall be installed, and this requiremen if intended for rental.

SEC. 11. The floors of bathrooms, kitchens, and water-closets meable material, and the walls, if of stone, must be reenforced to a with the same material, and if of wood must be painted in oil pain

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only one door, which shall be kept closed except when in use for the ingress and ogress of the fowls. It is essential that the fowls be fed only within this inclosure. SEC. 21. When, upon inspection by the service of sanitation as referred to in section 1 of these rules and regulations, any house or edifice or part of the same shall for any reason be found to be unhealthy, the director of sanitation shall inform the owner or agent of the said house to this effect in writing and shall fix a period of time within which the work of repairs or improvements must be finished, said limit of time to be fixed according to the importance of the work to be done. If at the expiration of the said period the work shall not have been completed, the director of sanitation may declare said house or edifice or part of same to be uninhabitable, and may order its closure within a period of not less than 30 days, and it shall be kept closed until the work is completed.

SEC. 22. The owner or agent of any house or edifice which is occupied by two or more families who live in separate parts shall be responsible for any infringement of these regulations not otherwise provided for herein, which may occur in connection with the parts of the house in common use, such as vestibules, yards, staircases, cisterns, wells, and alleyways, without prejudice to the action which for open violations of the regulation in each case is hereby conferred in favor of the owner or agent against the tenant or person who is found to be directly responsible. Equally, the owner or representative of any untenanted house or edifice shall be responsible for any infringement of these regulations which may take place in connection with Tenants of houses, apartments, flats, or edifices shall also be responsible for the infringements of these regulations which may occur in the other parts of the house or flat, and which are not included in the previous paragraphs.

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SEC. 23. No houses or edifices within the urban zone or within a town or within 100 meters of one or the other shall be allowed to be built, rebuilt, totally or partially, of changed or altered unless the plans for same shall have been presented to the director of sanitation for approval. Said plans shall be presented in triplicate, one copy of which will be retained for the files of the service of sanitation. The plans shall contain a detailed account of the arrangement and dimensions of the foundations, floors. and roofs, and if the director of sanitation so wishes he may demand other details If asked for, specifications and explanations shall accompany said plans. If reenforced concrete or steel frames are used, the dimensions of all details shall be presented Latrines or water-closets must be indicated in all plans. If the same are not approved. the defects and means for correcting the same shall be noted on the plans and the same returned to sender within a period of 10 days, provided that nothing in this section shall be understood to be contrary to the dispositions of the department of the interior and the municipal ordinances governing construction plans now in force.

SEC. 24. No newly built house or edifice which has been reconstructed or altered partially or completely, may be utilized until the same shall have been inspected by the service of sanitation for the purpose of ascertaining whether the approved plats have been duly carried out, the said inspection to take place within a period of 10 days. SEC. 25. Every newly constructed house or edifice shall have an open space which shall be used as yard, said space to be in the proportion of 20 per cent of the area built upon.

SEC. 26. In houses or edifices used as dwelling places the capacity of each room shall be not less than 22.75 cubic meters. They shall receive their light directly from street, yard, garden, or passageway, the total area of the doors and windows shali be not less than one-fifth of the area of the floor of each room, and at least one-fifth of the area of the openings shall be disposed of in such manner as to insure ventilation when the doors and windows are closed. The total area of the floor of each room shall be at least 7 square meters, the width of the same shall be not less than 2 meters the height from floor to ceiling shall be not less than 3.25 meters, and the length shali not exceed twice the altitude.

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