Chap. 500.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act entitled an act to
regulate the disposal of human waste or excreta within the Commonwealth
_ of Virginia, and to provide penalties, approved March 21. 1924. [H B 244]

Approved March 25, 1926.

1. Beit enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
one of an act entitled an act to regulate the disposal of human waste
or excreta within the Commonwealth of Virginia, and to provide
penalties, approved March twenty-first, nineteen hundred and twenty-
four, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 1. In any city or incorporated town in the State and for
a radius of one-half mile beyond the corporate limits thereof and else-
where in the State whenever the local board of health shall deem it
necessary, it shall be unlawful for the owner of any house or other
building to be used as a human habitation to occupy or to rent or lease
the same for occupancy by any person, firm or corporation, or for any
person, firm or corporation to occupy same until said house shall have
been supplied with a sanitary privy or closet or such form as to comply
with the law. If any landlord shall fail to supply any house of his
with a sanitary privy or closet as required by this act, his tenant shall
supply the same in conformity with the orders of a health officer or
health inspector and may deduct the cost thereof from any sum due
the landlord for rent.