Power to Executive Officer to use or sell materials of dangerous structure taken down, etc., and procedure when there is no owner or occupier

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Chapter XIV NUISANCE

Statutory text

(1) When the Executive Officer takes down any structure or part thereof or cuts down any tree or hedge or shrub or part thereof or removes any fruit in virtue of his powers under this chapter, the Executive Officer may sell the materials or things taken down, cut down or removed, and apply the proceeds in or towards payment of the expenses incurred.
(2) If after reasonable inquiry it appears to the Executive Officer that there is no owner or occupier to whom notice can be given under any section in this chapter he may himself take such order with the property mentioned in such section as may appear to him to be necessary and may recover the expenses incurred by the sale of such property (not being land) or of any portion thereof.

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