Pennsylvania Statutes Title 16 P.S. Counties § 2150. Elimination and abatement of larvae breeding places; liens

(a) Deleted by 2018, Oct. 24, P.L. 931, No. 154, § 77, effective in 60 days [Dec. 24, 2018].

(b) The county commissioners of counties of the third through eighth class shall have power to eliminate breeding places of mosquitoes on private or public property within the county. The commissioners may provide for all acts, including entry upon private or public property, to carry out all plans which, in their opinion and judgment through consultation with public health or veterinary officials, are deemed to be necessary for the preservation of human or animal health by the elimination of breeding places of mosquitoes, or which will tend to exterminate disease-carrying mosquitoes within the county.

(c) Any water, in which mosquito larvae breed, is hereby declared a public nuisance and subject to abatement as such. Whenever any such breeding place exists on any lands in the county, other than meadow or marsh lands subject to the ebb and flow of the tide, which breeding place should, in the opinion of the commissioners, be abated they shall, in writing, order the owner or owners of such lands to abate the same within a reasonable period, and in a manner, to be specified in such order. If, at the expiration of such period, such order has not been complied with, or if the owner or owners of such lands cannot be ascertained or found, the commissioners shall, at once, abate said nuisance and may assess all or part of the cost of such abatement against the lands on which such breeding place exists. They may file municipal liens for said assessments within the time and in the manner provided by law, the same to be subject in all respects to the general law providing for the filing and recovery of municipal liens.