§ 621. State aid; public health emergencies. If the state commissioner
or a county health department or part-county department of health or
municipality, with the approval of the state commissioner, determines
that there is an imminent threat to public health, the department shall
reimburse counties or municipalities at fifty per centum for the cost of
emergency measures as approved by the department and subject to the
approval of the director of the budget, except that aerial spraying for
mosquitoes on state land shall be reimbursed at one hundred per centum,
within amounts appropriated. Such funds shall be made available from
funds appropriated for public health emergencies, only to those counties
or municipalities, which have expended all other state aid which may be
available for related activities and have developed measures to
adequately address the emergency. Reimbursement is conditioned upon
availability of appropriated funds. For purposes of this section,
"municipality" means a health department of a city that is not located
in a county or part-county health district or a county in which the
legislature has the powers and duties of a board of health of a county
or part-county health district and cities with a population of over one
million persons.