1501 – Municipal Mosquito Control; Costs to Owner and Municipality.

§  1501.  Municipal mosquito control; costs to owner and municipality.
  1. Whenever the board of health of a municipality shall  determine  that
  any  accumulation  of water wherein mosquito larvae breed, constitutes a
  nuisance or a danger or injury to life or health, the owner or owners of
  the premises on which the breeding  place  is  located  shall  bear  the
  expense  of  its suppression or removal, or so much thereof as the local
  board of health shall determine to be equitable as hereinafter provided.
2. If the local board of health  of  a  municipality  shall  determine
  that,  owing  to  the  natural  conditions  which  are  favorable to the
  breeding of mosquitoes and owing to the benefit to  be  secured  to  the
  public  by  the suppression of such conditions, a part of the expense of
  such suppression or removal shall be borne by the owner of such premises
  and a  part  thereof  by  the  municipality  wherein  the  premises  are
  situated,  such owner or occupant may proceed to suppress or remove such
  breeding place and shall be reimbursed  by  the  municipality  for  such
  proportion  of  the reasonable expense of such suppression or removal as
  the board of health  shall  have  determined  should  be  borne  by  the
  municipality.
3. For the purpose of ascertaining the actual cost of such suppression
  or  removal,  the  board  of  health  of  the  municipality  or its duly
  authorized agents may at all times have access to the  premises  whereon
  the  work  is  being  carried  on;  and  the owner of the premises shall
  furnish to such board of health such information as the board of  health
  may  deem  necessary  or  desirable for the purpose of ascertaining such
  actual cost.
4. If in any such case the owner of the premises  shall  not  proceed,
  within a reasonable time, to suppress or remove such breeding place, the
  board  of  health of the municipality may proceed to suppress and remove
  the same, and for such proportion of the expense of such suppression and
  removal as the board of health shall have determined to be equitable, an
  action may be maintained against such owner, and the same shall become a
  first lien upon the premises.