Cap. 10 Art. 117Duty of owner to keep cistern, etc., in good repair,

(1) The owner of any building shall keep in a good state of repair, the cistern, privy, sink or drain for slop water, cesspool, if any, as well as the respective pipes or other means of communication and the ventilators prescribed by this Code.

(2) He shall also take all necessary steps to prevent any flow or infiltration from any privy, sink, or drain for slop water or cesspool, or from the respective pipes or conduits, and to prevent any nuisance in his own or in any other tenement.

(3) Nevertheless, the expense of removing any stoppage in the disconnecting syphon trap or in the pipes connecting the privy with the main, and of the cleansing of any pipe or drain consequent on such stoppage, shall be incumbent on the occupier of the house, unless it is shown that the stoppage existed before he occupied the house, or that it was due to defective construction, or that the drains are common to more than one tenement.