N.Y. Public Health Law § 1306: Nuisances; abatement expenses

§ 1306. Nuisances; abatement expenses. 1. The expense of suppression

or removal of a nuisance or conditions detrimental to health shall be

paid by the owner or occupant of the premises, or by the person who

caused or maintained such nuisance or other matters, and the board of

health of the municipality or county wherein the premises are located

may maintain an action in the name of the municipality or county to

recover such expense, and the same when recovered shall be paid to the

treasurer of the municipality or county, or if it has no treasurer to

its chief fiscal officer, to be held and used as the funds of the

municipality or county.

2. Whenever the suppression or removal of such nuisance or conditions

detrimental to health demand the immediate expenditure of money, every

local board of health, local health officer of a health district having

no board of health or county health commissioner shall be authorized to

use for such purpose any money in the hands of the board, or may call on

the governing body of the municipality or county as the case may be for

such money. All such moneys so expended shall be immediately repaid to

the fund or source whence they were received on the recovery of the same

by action or otherwise from the persons responsible for the expenses of

suppression or removal.