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      Sec. 31-47. Inspection of employee lodging houses. Any agent of a firm or corporation and every other person who maintains or has charge of any structure used as a boarding house or place of abode for laborers employed by such person, firm or corporation shall, within seventy-two hours after such structure has been occupied for such purpose or purposes, notify the director of health of the town, city or borough in which such structure is located. Such director, within five days thereafter, shall inspect such premises and may forbid the use of the same altogether or make such other orders as he deems necessary to protect the health of the inmates. Any person violating any provision of this section or failing to comply with any order of a director of health made pursuant to this section shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars.