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 When any house keeper has been permitted to start a house of public women at any place, if she wishes to move it to another place, she shall demonstrate her reasons therefor to a public officer first. Once the public officer has examined and approved it by changing the place in the permit, she shall be able to move it.

If any house keeper behaves in such a way that creates a nuisance to the public or causes anything which a public officer finds to be inappropriate, the public officer has the power to revoke her permit at once or may recall the permit for a certain period of time.

All house keepers can only admit willing women as their public women. If any public woman is no longer willing to stay, the house keeper has no power to detain or prevent her. The house keepers must produce accounts of the persons who are their regular residents, or who have newly come to them, or who have left their houses, or who have died of whatever cause, and file them with a public officer for the latter’s knowledge within twenty-four hours, subject to the form designated by the public officer.

The person who keeps a house of public women must govern and control the public women in her house for the sake of orderliness. The house keeper shall never admit a public woman who has no permit from a public officer and the house keeper shall never adopt an agreement with a public