[HISTORY: Adopted as Ch. 21 of the 1963 City
Code (Ch. 180 of the 1980 Code)]
The local Superintendent for the Suppression
of Gypsy and Browntail Moths shall be subject to the general authority
of the Mayor, except when such authority shall conflict with that
of the State Forester. He shall have and exercise the powers and be
subject to the duties and liabilities conferred and imposed upon such
local superintendents by the provisions of Chapter 381 of the Acts
of the year 1905 and of all amendments thereof and additions thereto
and shall perform such other duties not in conflict with law or ordinance
as may be assigned to him by the Mayor or by the Commissioner of Public
Works, and he shall receive such compensation and be allowed such
assistance as the City Council may direct and determine.
A.
The Superintendent for the Suppression of Gypsy and
Browntail Moths shall keep a record and account of:
(1)
All his official acts and of all the moneys officially
received and expended by him and the sources and purposes thereof.
(2)
The names and wages of all persons and assistants
employed by him or for his Department.
(3)
All sales of poisons or other material for the destruction
or suppression of insect pests furnished by him to owners of estates
or others, together with the character, amount and cost thereof, the
names and addresses of the persons so supplied and the date and object
of the furnishing of such supplies.
(4)
The date, amount and cost of all purchases of such
poison or other materials for the destruction or suppression of insect
pests from the State Forester.
B.
The record and account shall at all times be open
to the inspection of the City Council, the Mayor, the Auditor of Accounts
and the Commissioner of Public Works.
The cost and expense of all poisons and other
materials furnished by the local Moth Superintendent to the owners
of private estates for the purpose of suppressing or exterminating
insect pests and the cost, expense and charges of and for any work
of moth suppression or extermination done by or under the local Moth
Superintendent shall be certified by the local Moth Superintendent
annually, on or before the first day of the month of May, to the Assessor
of Taxes. Such certification shall include all such costs, expenses
and charges incurred during the 12 months next preceding the first
day of the month of May and shall specify in detail the amounts of
such costs, expenses and charges, including the items and dates of
such purchases made or work done and the names and addresses of each
and every such purchaser and of such owner of private property on
which such work has been done.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: Original § 180-4
of the 1980 Code, Annual report required, which immediately followed
this section, was deleted 7-10-2007 by Doc. 76.
