257.030 Powers of board.
The board may:
(1) Cooperate with universities and other entities in conducting the necessary scientific
investigations relating to the cause, nature, prevention, and treatment of
communicable diseases of livestock, poultry, and fish;
(2) Establish, maintain, and enforce any quarantine and other measures as it deems
necessary in controlling the movement of livestock, poultry, and fish into, through,
or within the state;
(3) Order and enforce the cleaning and disinfection of premises and all articles and
materials by which communicable diseases may be transmitted, and the destruction
of diseased and exposed animals and all property and materials, as may be
necessary in the eradication of disease;
(4) Adopt, issue, and enforce administrative regulations necessary for the proper
administration and enforcement of the provisions of this chapter, and for the
accomplishment of the purposes intended to be accomplished by this chapter.
Administrative regulations falling within the scope of KRS 257.196 shall be
adopted, issued, and enforced in conformity with that section; and
(5) Employ necessary scientific, field, stenographic, and clerical assistants and fix their
salaries.
Effective: July 15, 2010
History: Amended 2010 Ky. Acts ch. 106, sec. 6, effective July 15, 2010. -- Amended
2009 Ky. Acts ch. 22, sec. 3, effective June 25, 2009. -- Amended 1948 Ky. Acts
ch. 19, sec. 1. -- Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942,
from Ky. Stat. sec. 63c-13, 63c-14.
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