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74T H CONGRESS. SESS. I. CHS . 41,42. APRIL 5, 1935 . Nonre sident owners . provided ; or (f) in case any owner be a nonresident of the District of Columbia, then after public notice by said Commissioners given at least twice a week for one week in one newspaper published in the District of Columbia, by advertisement, describing the property, specifying the nuisance to be abated . Any notice required by law or by any regulation aforesaid to be served on a corporation shall for the purposes of this Act be deemed to have been served on any such co rporation if served o n the pres ident, sec retary, tr easurer, g en- eral manager, or any principal officer of such corporation in the manner hereinbefore provided for the service of notices on natural persons holding property in their own right ; and, if required to be served on any foreign corporation, if served on any agent of such corporation personally, or if left with any person of suitable age and dis cretion re siding at t he usual r esidence o r employed at the pl ace Fo rm of no ti ce. of business of such agent in the District of Columbia . Every notice aforesaid shall be in writing or printing, or partly in writing and partly in printing ; shall be addressed by name to the person to be notified ; shall describe with certainty the character and location of the unlawful condition to be corrected, and shall allow a reasonable time to be specified in said notice, within which the person notified may correct such unlawful condition or show cause why he should not be required to do so . etInionis at Ac ts, " S EC . 6 . That all Acts and parts of Acts inconsistent with this Act, be, and the same are hereby, repealed ." Approved, April 5, 1935 . [C HAP TER 42 .1 April 5, 1935 .

AN ACT [5 .400.1 To amend an Act app rov ed May 1, 1906, entitled "An Act to create a board [Public, No. 25.1

for the condemnation of insanitary buildi ngs in the D istric t of C olumbi a, and for other purposes." Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Codetamendmentt . ,

Columbia United States of America in Congress assembled, That sections 7, 18Vol .34,pp . 158, 160, 14, and 15 of the Act approved May 1, 1906, entitled "An Act to create a board for the condemnation of insanitary buildings in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes ", are hereby amended to read as follows Condemned bui ld- " SEC. 7. That the owner or owners of any building or buildings ings. Removalconditioned condemned under the provisions of this Act, which cannot be so on repair costs . changed or repaired as to remedy the condition which led to the condemnation thereof, where the repairs and/or alterations neces- sary to remedy the conditions which led to the condemnation thereof cannot be made at a cost not greater than 50 per centum of the present reproduction cost of said building as may be agreed upon by a majority of said Board, shall demolish and remove such building or part of building within the time to be specified by said board Failure to remove; in the order of condemnation . And if any owner or part owner penalty. shall fail or refuse to demolish and remove said building or part of building within the time so specified he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and liable to the penalties provided by section 13 of Vol . 34,p .160 .

this Act, and such building or part of building shall be demolished and removed under the direction of the Board for the condemnation Asse ssm ent of costs . of insanitary buildings in the District of Columbia, and the cost of such demolition and removal, less the amount, if any, received from the sale of the old material, but including the cost of making good such damage to adjoining premises as may have resulted from care- lessness or willful recklessness in the demolition of such building and the cost of publication, if any, herein provided for, shall be