When a condition exists in an area adjacent to a military encampment outside the corporate limits of a city or town which, in the opinion of the commander of the encampment concurred in by the department of health services, constitutes a health menace, the person responsible for the condition shall, upon an order from the department, abate it. Failure to do so within twenty-four hours after service of the order for abatement is a class 2 misdemeanor.