(A) The Commissioners establish the position of Vector Abatement Administrator.
(B) The Vector Abatement Administrator shall be appointed as provided by state law and shall be experienced in vector abatement.
(C) The Vector Abatement Administrator serves under the direction of the County Health Officer.
(D) The duties of the Vector Abatement Administrator for the County Health Department are as follows:
(1) To control vectors which have adverse health significance to humans or domestic animals and livestock;
(2) Entering upon any land, public or private, at any reasonable time to inspect for or to abate all pest and vector breeding grounds which have adverse health significance to humans or domestic animals and livestock;
(3) Purchasing supplies, material and equipment;
(4) Building, constructing, maintaining or repairing necessary levees, cuts, canals, channels or other structures upon any land within the district after obtaining the necessary local and Department of Natural Resources approvals;
(5) Acquiring by gift or purchase, to hold or dispose of, any real property in the name of the district to include such facilities as offices, laboratories, operational buildings, rights and easements;
(6) Making contracts for the purpose of carrying out recommendations of the Board of a vector abatement program;
(7) Compensating property owners for injury or damages caused by establishment or operation of a vector abatement program;
(8) Conducting biological or chemical control in a manner consistent with recommendations of State Cooperative Extension Service, the Pesticide Review Board and the State Department of Health;
(9) Entering into cooperative agreements with appropriate organizations for the purpose of assuring technical assistance in developing and carrying out specific duties; and
(10) Identifying problems determined to be of importance to the public welfare and developing control programs appropriate to each situation.
(E) All expenditures of monies, pursuant to the Vector Abatement Administrator’s duties are subject to appropriation by the County Council and approval by the State Board of Tax Commissioners. The appropriations and approvals are made in advance of contracts for expenditures.
(F) Annually, the Vector Abatement Administrator shall prepare a work plan which must outline specific objectives to be accomplished, method of control abatement, estimated cost and the sequence of work activities and projects. The work plan shall be submitted by the Vector Abatement Administrator to the State Environmental Management Board by July 1 of each year for the proposed activities to start January 1 of the next year.
(G) For the purpose of this section, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
PEST. Any arthropod or vertebrate of health significance to humankind.
VECTOR. Any arthropod or feral animal responsible for the transmission of pathogens from a host to another animal or humankind.
(Prior Code, § 16-41-33-3) (Ord. BC-76-30-47, passed 5-3-1976, 30 COM REC 47; Ord. CC-76-, passed 5-8-1976, 76 CCM - ) Penalty, see § 31.999