Title 26, Title 26: HEALTH AND VITAL STATISTICS

26:9-12.1. Airplane spraying for mosquito extermination; use of State aid appropriation The amount annually appropriated as State aid for mosquito extermination and control in counties bordering on the Atlantic ocean to the State Department of Health shall be used by the State Co…

26:9-12.2. Effective date This act shall take effect July first, one thousand nine hundred and forty-nine. L.1949, c. 89, p. 407, s. 3.

26:9-12.3. State Mosquito Control Commission; membership; appointment There is hereby created in the Department of Environmental Protection a permanent commission to be known as the State Mosquito Control Commission, which shall consist of 10 members, six of whom shall be appoint…

26:9-12.4. Tenure; vacancies; compensation The appointed members of the commission shall serve for terms of 4 years, except that of the first appointed members of the commission 1 shall be appointed for a term of 1 year, 1 for a term of 2 years, and 2 for terms of 3 years. Vacanc…

26:9-12.5. Meeting and organization The commission shall meet at the call of the Director of the New Jersey State Agricultural Experiment Station and shall organize as soon as may be after the appointment of its members and shall select a chairman from among its members and a sec…

26:9-12.6. Duties of commission It shall be the duty of the commission to carry on a continuous study of mosquito control and extermination in the State, to recommend to the Governor and the Legislature, from time to time, changes in legislation which in its judgment may be neces…

26:9-12.7. Enforcement of recommendations The commission shall have power to call to the attention of the director any mosquito breeding places in the State which may come to its attention and in cases in which any recommendations made by the experiment station to abate mosquito …

26:9-12.8. Cooperation The New Jersey State Agricultural Experiment Station and the several county mosquito extermination commissions shall cooperate with the commission in the furnishing of information and the performance of any services which may be requested of them by the com…

26:9-12.9. Hearings; annual reports The commission may meet and hold hearings at such place or places as it shall designate from time to time and shall report annually its findings and recommendations to the Governor and the Legislature, accompanying the same with any legislative…

26:9-13. Extermination commission; appointment The board of chosen freeholders of each county shall appoint a board of commissioners to be known as "the (here insert name of county) county mosquito extermination commission" for the county. Amended by L.1948, c. 383, p. 1564, s. 1…

26:9-13.1. Incumbents to continue in office The members of the county mosquito extermination commissions of the several counties, in office when this act takes effect, shall continue in office until the expiration of their respective terms of office. L.1948, c. 383, p. 1564, s. 2…

26:9-14. Composition of commission Each county mosquito extermination commission shall be composed of six members in addition to the Director of the State Experiment Station and the Commissioner of Health, who shall be ex-officio members and who shall cooperate with them for the …

26:9-14.1. Additional member Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law, a county mosquito extermination commission shall be composed of the members appointed pursuant to R.S. 26:9-14 plus one additional member appointed for a term of 3 years. L.1973, c. 295, s. 1.

26:9-15. Term of office The commissioners first appointed in any county shall hold office respectively for a term of one, two, and three years, as fixed in the order of appointment; thereafter, each commissioner who succeeds an original appointee shall be appointed for a term of …

26:9-16. Vacancy Any vacancy occurring in the membership of the commission shall be filled in the same manner as an original appointment and for the unexpired term only.

26:9-17. Oath Each appointive commissioner, before entering upon the duties of his office, shall take and subscribe an oath, before the clerk of the county in and for which he is appointed, to perform faithfully and impartially the duties of his office. The oath shall be filed wi…

26:9-18. Compensation No member of the commission while sitting as such shall receive any compensation except for necessary expenses for actual attendance on meetings.

26:9-19. Officers and employees The commission shall choose annually from among its members a president and treasurer, appoint a clerk or secretary and such other officers and employees as it may deem necessary, but it shall not employ any of its own members. The commission shall…

26:9-2. Duty of director of state experiment station The director of the state experiment station, or an executive officer appointed by him, shall: a. Survey, in the order he deems desirable and to the extent that he deems necessary, all salt marsh, fresh-water swamps, or flooded…

26:9-20. Office of commission The board of freeholders of the county shall provide the commission with a suitable office where its maps, plans, documents, records, and accounts shall be kept, subject to public inspection at such times and under such reasonable regulations as the …

26:9-21. Powers of commission The commission shall constitute a body politic, with power: a. To sue and be sued; b. To use a common seal; c. To make by-laws; and d. To perform all acts which in its opinion may be necessary for the elimination of mosquito breeding areas, or which …

26:9-22. Plans and estimates; filing and approval The commission shall, on or before the first of November in each year, file with the director a detailed estimate of the moneys required for the ensuing year, and a plan of the work to be done. The director shall approve or modify…

26:9-23. Tax levy; limitations The board of freeholders of the county or other body having control of the finances thereof, shall include annually in the tax levy the amount of money needed for mosquito control; but in no year shall the amount so raised exceed the following amoun…

26:9-24. Withdrawal of funds The commission may draw the money so appropriated on requisition duly signed and approved by its president and secretary.

26:9-25. Annual report The commission shall, on or before the first of November in each year, submit to the director and to the board of freeholders a report setting forth the amount of moneys expended during the previous year, the methods employed, the work accomplished, and any…

26:9-26. Other laws not affected Nothing in sections 26:9-13 to 26:9-25 of this title shall be construed to alter, amend, modify or repeal the provisions of article 1 of this chapter (s. 26:9-1 et seq.), or to alter, amend, modify or repeal any law conferring upon the state depar…

26:9-27. Powers of board of freeholders The board of freeholders in any county may: a. Eliminate all breeding places of mosquitoes within the county; b. Adopt and execute such plans as in its judgment will tend to exterminate mosquitoes; and c. Purchase such material and equipmen…

26:9-28. Funds provided by bond issue When the board of freeholders of any county, by resolution approved by a majority of the members of the board, shall declare that it is expedient or necessary to eliminate breeding places of mosquitoes within the county, the board may issue b…

26:9-29. Method of issue Any such bonds shall be issued under and in accordance with the provisions of article 1 of chapter 1 of the title Municipalities and Counties (s. 40:1-1 et seq.).

26:9-3. Survey by request The director, or his executive officer, shall survey, at the request of the local board of health or the county mosquito commission, any territory suspected of breeding mosquitoes, within the jurisdiction of such board or commission.

26:9-30. Delegation of work to commission The board of freeholders of any county in which there is a county mosquito extermination commission may authorize, designate, and employ such commission to submit plans and to perform the work and furnish the material which, in the judgme…

26:9-31. Other laws not affected Nothing in sections 26:9-27 to 26:9-30 of this title shall be construed to alter, amend, modify or repeal the provisions of sections 26:9-13 to 26:9-26 of this title.

26:9-4. Map of breeding area The director shall prepare a map of such suspected area, locating upon it such mosquito breeding areas as have been discovered, and shall report the same to the local board of health or county mosquito commission requesting the survey.

26:9-5. Petition for survey A request for such survey may be made by the local board, or the county commission, upon its own motion, and must be made upon the petition, in writing, of ten or more freeholders residing within the jurisdiction of such board or commission.

26:9-6. Notice to local authorities of breeding place Whenever, in the course of a survey, it is found that mosquitoes breed at any place within the state, the director through his executive officer, shall notify in writing the local board or the county commission, by personal se…

26:9-7. Notice to landowner to abate The local board or the county commission shall, within twenty days from the time such notice is served, investigate the ownership, so far as ascertainable, of the territory on which the breeding places occur, and notify the owner of such lands…

26:9-8. Contents of notice The notice to the landowner shall include: a. The facts contained in the communication from the director; b. A statement that any water in which mosquito larvae breed is a nuisance and subject to abatement under article 3 of chapter 3 of this title (s. …

26:9-9. Abatement by local authorities In case the landowner fails to comply with such order, the local board or county commission shall abate such nuisance in the manner provided in article 3 of chapter 3 of this title (s. 26:3-45 et seq.).