La. Admin. Code tit. 51 § V-103

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 9, September 20, 2024

Section V-103 - General Mosquito Control Regulations [formerly paragraph 5:002]

A. Water in man-made containers or man-made basins within 1 mile (1.61 km) of communities shall not be permitted to produce mosquitoes. Tanks and other containers used for storage of water shall have all openings larger than 1/18 of an inch (0.14 cm) screened with wire mesh not less than 18 strands to the inch each way (7 strands to the centimeter). Standing water in fountains, basins, and urns in parks, cemeteries, and residential and commercial sites, and water in ponds, pools, borrow pits, ditches, or other depressions or excavations must be maintained free from debris, flotage, and emergent vegetation and stocked with mosquito larvae-eating fish or treated at suitable intervals with federal and state approved larvicide if mosquito production becomes imminent.

B. [formerly paragraph 5:003] In the event of an outbreak or imminent outbreak of mosquito-borne disease, the state health officer, may, in addition to the regulations promulgated elsewhere in this Part, require mosquito prevention or abatement measures applied to less usual sources of mosquito production as considered necessary.

C. [formerly paragraph 5:004] All persons suspected of having a mosquito-borne infection shall be protected from the bites of mosquitoes unless, and until, the infection is found not to be due to mosquito-borne infection; and if found to be mosquito-borne, protection shall be continued until the infective stage has passed, as determined by the state health officer.

D. [formerly paragraph 5:005] It shall be unlawful for any person to create, or cause to be created, conditions favorable for producing mosquitoes by impounding of water unless provision has been made for control measures.

E. [formerly paragraph 5:006] In the event of an outbreak or imminent outbreak of mosquito-borne disease, the state health officer may require that any person proposing to impound water, raise the level of existing impounded water, or re-impound water in areas where previous impoundage has been discontinued for one or more seasons, prior to the institution of any construction activities, shall make written application to the state health officer and receive therefrom a written permit for impoundage construction.

La. Admin. Code tit. 51, § V-103

Promulgated by the Department of Health and Hospitals, Office of Public Health, LR 28:1226 (June 2002).

AUTHORITY NOTE: Promulgated in accordance with R.S. 40:4 and R.S. 40:5. In particular, see R.S. 40:4(A)(9).