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(1.) Causes or suffers to be brought or to flow into any stream reservoir aqueduct pond or place for water, or into any drain or pipe communicating therewith, any washing or other substance produced in making or supplying gas; or,
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shall forfeit for every such offence the sum of two hundred pounds, and, after the expiration of twenty-four hours’ notice from the sanitary authority or the person to whom the water belongs in that behalf, a further sum of twenty pounds for every day during which the offence is continued or during the continuance of the act whereby the water is fouled.
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Every such penalty may be recovered, with full costs of suit, in any of the superior courts, in the case of water belonging to or under the control of the sanitary authority by the sanitary authority, and in any other case by the person into whose water such washing or other substance is conveyed or flows or whose water is fouled by any such act as aforesaid, or in default of proceedings by such person, after notice to him from the sanitary authority of their intention to proceed for such penalty, by the sanitary authority; but such penalty shall not be recoverable unless it be sued for during the continuance of the offence, or within six months after it has ceased.
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