Any county court may:
- (1) Take all necessary or proper steps and measures for the prevention, control or eradication of public health vectors using integrated pest management methods.
- (2) Abate as nuisances all vector habitats.
- (3) Purchase such supplies and materials and employ or contract for such labor as may be necessary or proper in furtherance of prevention, control or eradication.
- (4) Fix the compensation and prescribe the duties of all employees, agents and servants.
- (5) Enter upon all places within the county and adjacent thereto for the purpose of carrying out this section.
- (6) Cut or remove such shrubbery or undergrowth as is necessary or proper in order to carry out this section.
- (7) Treat, using integrated pest management methods places where public health vectors are found or are likely to exist.
- (8) Generally do any and all things necessary or incident to the powers granted in ORS 452.230 to 452.250 and to carry out the objectives specified in this section.
[Amended by 1959 c.600 §16; 1981 c.640 §14; 2007 c.71 §138; 2007 c.258 §7]