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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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