Powers to order cleansing of filthy building or land.

If the owner or occupier of any building or land in a municipal area suffers the same to be in a filthy or unwholesome state the Municipality may by notice require him within twenty-four hours to cleanse the same or otherwise put it in a proper state and thereafter to keep it in a clean and proper state and if it appears to the Municipality to be necessary for sanitary purposes to do so it may at any time by notice, direct the occupier of any building in the municipal area to lime-wash or otherwise cleanse that building inside or outside, in such manner and within such period as may be specified in the notice.