Section 17-105. Commercial paper during epidemic; duties of city clerk

a.
  Whenever the board of health, by  public  notice,  shall  designate  any
  portion  or  district of the city as being the seat of any infectious or
  contagious disease, and  declare  communication  with  such  portion  or
  district to be dangerous, or shall prohibit such communication, the city
  clerk,  during  the  continuance of such disease in such district, shall
  provide and keep in his  or  her  office  a  book  for  the  purpose  of
  registering  in  alphabetical  order,  the  names,  firms  and places of
  business of any inhabitant of the city who shall request  such  registry
  to be made.
    b.  All  persons  and  firms usually resident or doing business within
  such infected district shall register, in the books so  provided,  their
  names  or firms, with the place or places out of such infected district,
  but within the city to which they may have removed  the  transaction  of
  their  business,  or  to which they may desire any notices to be sent or
  served, or any notes, drafts, or bills to be presented for acceptance or
  for payment. Twenty-five cents may be claimed and received by  the  city
  clerk  for  every such registry; but the book in which the same shall be
  entered shall be open to public examination free of all charges  at  all
  times during office hours.
    c.  During  the  continuance  of  any  such  disease  in such infected
  district, all drafts, notes and bills, which by law are required  to  be
  presented  for  acceptance  or  for  payment,  may be presented for such
  purpose at the place so designated in such registry, and all notices  of
  non-acceptance and non-payment of any note, draft or bill, or of protest
  for  such  non-acceptance  or  non-payment, may be served by leaving the
  same at the place so designated.
    d. In case any person or  firm  usually  resident  or  doing  business
  within  such  infected  district  shall  neglect to make and cause to be
  entered in the book so  provided,  the  registry  herein  required,  all
  notes, drafts or bills which by law are required to be presented to such
  person  or  firm  for acceptance or for payment, may be presented to the
  city clerk during the continuance of such disease, at  any  time  during
  office hours, and demand of acceptance or payment thereof may be made of
  such  city clerk, to the same purpose and with the same effect as if the
  same had been presented and  acceptance  or  payment  demanded  of  such
  person or firm at their usual place of doing business.
    e.  In  case  of  omission  to  make the registry herein required, all
  notices of the non-acceptance or non-payment  of  any  note,  draft,  or
  bill,  or  of  protest  for  such  non-acceptance or non-payment, may be
  served on any person or firm usually resident or doing  business  within
  such  infected  district, by leaving the same at one of the post-offices
  in the city.  Such service shall be as valid and  effectual  as  if  the
  notices had been served personally on such person or one of such firm at
  his, her or their usual place of doing business.
    f. Whenever proclamation shall be made by the board of health, that an
  infectious  or contagious disease in any infected district has subsided,
  it shall be deemed to have subsided for  all  purposes  contemplated  in
  this section.