Said  house  may  be  described  in  the  title  of  the  action
by  its  street  number,  or  in  any  other  method  sufficiently
precise  to  secure  identification.
The  property  shall  be  described  in  the  complaint.
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The  plaintiff,  except  as  hereinafter  provided,  shall  be
the  department  of  health.
In  case  any  taxpayer  of  any  city  to  which  this  act  ap-
plies, shall  request  such  department  in  writing  to  insti-
tute an  action  under  this  title  against  any  tenement  house
specified  in  such  request,  and  such  department  shall  not
institute  such  action  within  ten  days  after  receiving  such
request,  then  any  taxpayer  of  said  city  may  institute  and
maintain  such  action  against  such  tenement  house  in  his
own  name,  and  in  such  case  the  court  may  in  its  discre-
tion require  security  for  costs.
Section   147.
JURISDICTION   AND   PROCEDURE.
Said  action  shall  be  brought  in  the  supreme  court  in
the  county  in  which  the  property  is  situated.
x\t  or  before  the  commencement  of  the  action  the  com-
plaint shall  be  filed  in  the  office  of  the  clerk  of  the  county,
together  with  a  notice  of  the  pendency  of  the  action,  con-
taining the  names  of  the  parties,  the  object  of  the  action
and  a  brief  description  of  the  property  affected  thereby.
Said  notice  shall  be  immediately  recorded  by  the  clerk
in  accordance  with  the  provisions  of  section  sixteen  hun-
dred and  seventy-two  of  the  code  of  civil  procedure.
The  owner  or  lessee  of  said  building,  or  both,  may  ap-
pear in  said  action  and  answer  or  demur  to  the  complaint
and  the  subsequent  proceedings  in  the  action  shall  be
the  same  as  in  other  actions  brought  to  establish  a  lien
or  encumbrance  upon  real  property,  and  the  action  shall
be  entitled  to  a  preference  in  the  trial  or  hearing  thereof.
Section  148.
