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Chapter 286 - Agricultural Industry
Act 72 of 1945 INSECT PESTS AND PLANT DISEASES (286.251 - 286.260)
AN ACT to prevent the importation from other states, and the spread within this state, of all serious insect pests and contagious plant diseases and to provide for their repression and control, imposing certain powers and duties on the commissioner of agriculture; to prescribe penalties for the violation of the provisions of this act; and to repeal certain acts and parts of acts.
History: 1945, Act 72, Eff. Sept. 6, 1945 ;-- Am. 2005, Act 52, Imd. Eff. June 27, 2005
- Section 286.251 Examinations for insects or infectious diseases; marking; notice to destroy, posting; appeals.
- Section 286.252 Orders of commissioner; refusal to carry out.
- Section 286.253 Declaration as public nuisances.
- Section 286.254 Report of inspections.
- Section 286.255 Authority to enter upon premises; treatment to prevent spread of disease; owners recompensed for loss.
- Section 286.256 Commissioner may make rules and regulations; quarantines.
- Section 286.257 Liability of agent.
- Section 286.259 Violation of act; misdemeanor; penalty; applicability of subsection (1).
- Section 286.260 Violation of rule or order; civil infraction; fine; misdemeanor; felony; penalties; liability.
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