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Power to prohibit use of unfit buildings. - Should any building, or any part of any building, appear to the municipality to be unfit for human habitation in consequence of the want of proper means of drainage or ventilation or any sufficient reason, the municipality may, by notice, prohibit the owner or occupier thereof from using the same for human habitation or 73 suffering it to be so used, until it has been rendered fit for such use to the satisfaction of the municipality, and no such owner or occupier shall inhabit such building or suffer it to be inhabited until the municipality shall have informed in writing the owner or occupier that the prohibition has been withdrawn.