This year,
Municipal Minute will be counting down to the New Year with updates on
legislation that will be effective starting on January 1, 2025.
Today, we
are covering Public Act 103-0976 which regulates the use of
pesticides in municipalities. This Act provides that municipalities and
government actors must provide 24-hours of notice to the public before applying a pesticide
on a public right-of-way. The notice must include intended location, name of
the product, the reason for application, any special instructions on the
product label, and contact information for the Department of Agriculture. A
violation of this act may result in fines up to $1,000. The notice must be written and is sufficient if posted in newsletters, websites, calendars, or other correspondence published by the government entity. Posting on a bulletin board is not sufficient.
The Act also
provides that a municipality is exempt from these notice requirements if the
pesticide application is in response to diseases in mosquito populations or a
natural disaster recovery effort.
Post Authored by Alexis Carter & Julie Tappendorf, Ancel Glink