2013 New York Consolidated Laws
PBH - Public Health
Article 13 - NUISANCES AND SANITATION
Title 1 - (1300 - 1310) GENERAL PROVISIONS; CONTROL AND ABATEMENT
1303 - Nuisances; local boards of health; general powers and duties.

 
    §  1303. Nuisances; local boards of health; general powers and duties.
  1. Every local board of health and local health  officer  shall  receive
  and  examine  into  all  complaints  made  by  any inhabitant concerning
  nuisances, or causes of danger or injury to life and health  within  the
  health  district,  and  may  enter  upon or within any place or premises
  where nuisances or conditions dangerous to life and health or which  are
  the  cause  of  nuisances  existing  elsewhere  are known or believed to
  exist, and by its members or other persons designated for that  purpose,
  inspect and examine the same.
    2. The local board of health or local health officer having the powers
  of  a  local  board  of  health  shall  furnish  the  owners, agents and
  occupants of the premises with a written statement of  the  results  and
  conclusions  of  any examination conducted pursuant to the provisions of
  sections one thousand three hundred three to one thousand three  hundred
  five, inclusive, of this chapter.
    3. Every local board of health shall order the suppression and removal
  of  all nuisances and conditions detrimental to life and health found to
  exist within the health district.
    4. Whenever the commissioner shall by notice to the presiding  officer
  of  any local board of health, direct him to convene such local board to
  take certain definite  proceedings  concerning  which  the  commissioner
  shall  be  satisfied that the action recommended by him is necessary for
  the public good, and is within the jurisdiction of such board of health,
  such presiding officer shall convene such local board of  health,  which
  shall take the action directed.