§ 5-605 Methods of treatment.

emptying all water at least once every 5 days;

using a larvicide approved by and applied in accordance with the requirements of the United States Environmental Protection Agency;

cleaning and keeping the water free of vegetable growth and other obstructions and stocking with mosquito-destroying fish (the absence of half-grown or larger mosquito larvae to be evidence of having complied with this method);

filling or draining to the satisfaction of the Commissioner of Health;

removing, at least once every 5 days, all tin cans, tin boxes, broken or empty bottles, and similar articles likely to hold water;

screening with wire netting of at least 16 meshes to the inch each way;

screening with any other material that will prevent the ingress or egress of mosquitoes; or

any other method that the Commissioner approves.