257.020 Duties of Board of Agriculture.
The board shall: <br>(1) Enforce the provisions of this chapter; <br>(2) Adopt and enforce measures as it deems necessary to protect and promote the
livestock, poultry, fish, and animal industries. Measures falling within the scope of <br>KRS 257.196 shall be adopted and enforced in conformity with that section;
(3) Prevent, control, and eradicate any communicable disease of livestock, poultry, and
fish;
(4) Investigate the prevalence of communicable diseases in livestock, poultry, and fish
upon receipt of reports of those diseases;
(5) Issue information as it deems necessary for public distribution; <br>(6) Give information and instruction to farmers and breeders and feeders of livestock,
poultry, and fish in the nature, cause, prevention, and control of communicable <br>diseases; and
(7) Regulate the importation, sale, use, and distribution of products or material used in
the diagnosis, treatment, or prevention of animal diseases.
Effective: July 15, 2010 <br>History: Amended 2010 Ky. Acts ch. 106, sec. 5, effective July 15, 2010. -- Amended
2009 Ky. Acts ch. 22, sec. 2, effective June 25, 2009. -- Amended 1970 Ky. Acts <br>ch. 92, sec. 78. -- Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October 1, <br>1942, from Ky. Stat. sec. 63c-13.
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