Power to order filling in of pools, etc., which are nuisance.

(1) If in the opinion of the Commissioner,- (a) any pool, ditch, tank, well, pond, bog, swamp quarry-hole, drain, cess pool, pit, watercourse, or any collection of water, or (b) any land on which water may at any time accumulate or is likely to become a breeding place of mosquitoes or in any other respect is a nuisance the Commissioner may by notice require the owner or person having control thereof to fill up, cover over, weed, stock with larvicidal fish, petrolize, drain or drain off the same in such manner and with such materials as the Commissioner shall direct to take such order with the same for removing or abating the nuisance as the Commissioner shall direct.