§ 415 — Authority to compel construction of water closets and other sanitary appliances; connection with water and sewer mains; lien in favor of tenant

Sec. 415. - Authority to compel construction of water closets and other sanitary appliances; connection with water and sewer mains; lien in favor of tenant.

The governing authority shall have power to compel all owners, tenants, or occupants of improved property in all instances necessary to good sanitation to construct water closets, slop sinks, and other sanitary appliances, and to connect the same with the water and sewer mains; to confer power on said municipality to appoint an inspector of all such work, provided that whenever any tenant or occupant shall be required, under any ordinance of the City, to lay a pavement, make sewer connection, or do any other thing of which the City has the power to compel the performance, such tenant or occupant shall have a lien upon the property occupied for reimbursement and reasonable attorney's fees, if the primary obligation to do the same was on the landlord, said lien to be enforced by attachment proceedings in any court of competent jurisdiction, and to date only from the commencement of such proceedings as against other lien creditors or assigns of the owner, and the tenant or occupant may, when so entitled under the general principles of the law of set off, use such claim against his liability for rent.

(Acts 1879, ch. 11, § 3; Acts 1889, ch. 163, § 1)