Mosquito Control Laws of New Jersey 5 



ascertainable, of the territory on which the breeding places 

 occur, and to notify the owner or owners of such lands, if they 

 can be found or ascertained, in such manner as other notices 

 of such boards are served, of the facts set out in the communi- 

 cation from the director, and of the further fact that, under 

 chapter sixty-eight of the laws of one thousand, eight hundred 

 and eighty-seven, as amended in chapter one hundred and nine- 

 teen of the laws of one thousand, nine hundred and four, any Notice to 

 water in which mosquito larva? breed is a nuisance and subject nuisance, 

 to abatement as such. Said notice shall further contain an 

 order that the nuisance, consisting of mosquito-breeding poois, 

 be abated within a period to be stated, and which shall not be 

 more than sixty days from the date of said notice, failing which 

 the board would proceed to abate, in accordance with the act 

 and its amendments above cited. fails to 



4. In case any owner of salt-marsh lands on which mos- of heaith b ° ard 

 quito-breeding places occur and upon whom notice has been to act. 

 served as above set out, fails or neglects to comply with the 



order of the board within the time limited therein, it shall 

 be the duty of said board to proceed to abate, under the powers 

 given in section thirteen and fourteen of the act and its amend- 

 ments cited in the preceding section, or in case this is deemed 

 inexpedient, it shall certify to the common council or other 

 governing body of the city, town, township, borough or village, 

 the facts that such an order has been made and that it has 

 not been complied with, and it shall request such council or 

 other governing body to provide the money necessary to enable 

 the board to< abate such nuisance in the manner provided by As to 

 law. It shall thereupon become the duty of such governing fun s 

 body to act upon such certificate at its next meeting and to con- 

 sider the appropriation of the money necessary to abate the 

 nuisance so certified. If it be decided that the municipality has 

 no money available for such purpose, such decision shall be 

 transmitted to the board of health making the certificate, which 

 said board shall thereupon communicate such decision forth- 

 with to the director of the Agricultural Experiment Station, or 

 his executive officer. 



5. If, in the judgment of the director aforesaid, public 

 interests will be served thereby, he may set aside out of the Certain 



. , j i_ , i • , 1 , i amount may 



moneys appropriated by this act such an amount as may be be set aside 

 necessary to abate the nuisance found existing, and to abolish D ° ee a £„g n S p 0ts 

 the mosquito-breeding places found in the municipality which 

 has declared itself without funds available, as prescribed in 

 the preceding section. Notice that such amount has been set 

 aside as above described shall be given to the board of health 

 within whose jurisdiction such mosquito-breeding places are 

 situated, and said board shall thereupon appoint some person 

 designated by said director or his executive officer, a special 



