(1) The occupier of any house or other tenement situate in any city or town or in any place immediately adjacent thereto, who does not keep sufficiently swept and cleaned all footways and watercourses belonging and adjoining to the premises occupied by him or her is liable on summary conviction to a fine of $1,000.
(2) Where any such house or other tenement is unoccupied, its owner is deemed for purposes of subsection (1) to be the occupier of such house or tenement and liable to the same penalty.