N.Y. Public Health Law § 1525: County mosquito control commission; powers and duties; entry on lands

§ 1525. County mosquito control commission; powers and duties; entry

on lands. 1. Each county mosquito control commission shall use every

means feasible and practicable to suppress mosquitoes, ticks, flies and

other hominoxious arthropods of every kind requiring community action

for their control, and which may be found within the county for which

such commission is appointed.

2. Such commission shall have power and authority to enter without

hinderance upon any or all lands within the county for the purpose of

draining or treating the same and to perform all other acts which in its

opinion and judgment may be necessary and proper for the elimination of

mosquitoes or other hominoxious arthropods which may require community

action for their control, and which may be found within such counties,

but such measures shall not be injurious to wild life.

3. Before entering upon any such lands for such purposes as outlined

under this section, the commission shall publish each year at least once

during the year, immediately following the approval of the board of

supervisors of its plans for work during the ensuing year as provided in

this article, in at least one newspaper in every town of the county

where work is to be performed and in which such a paper is published, a

general description of the land where the work is to be performed, and

in case of a town where work is to be performed by the commission and in

which no newspaper is published, individual notices shall be first sent

to every owner in such town upon whose land the commission proposes to

enter for said purposes if the name of such owner be known; if unknown

such notice shall be posted in not less than five conspicuous places in

such town.