For the purposes of this subdivision, the commissioner and the state entomologist may require any town to take such measures as, in their judgment, are reasonable and proper, up to a cost not exceeding, in any one year, 1/10 of one percent of the tax valuation of said town for the preceding year. If a town shall fail to execute the prescribed measures, the commissioner and state entomologist may cause the work to be done and the expense thereof, not exceeding said 1/10 of one percent of the tax valuation, may be recovered from the town in an action by the state.
Source. 1985, 72:1, eff. July 1, 1985.