2023 Kentucky Statutes 257.020 – Duties of Board of Agriculture
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The board shall:
(1) Enforce the provisions of this chapter;
(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 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;
(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 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
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 ch.
92, sec. 78. — Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942, from Ky. Stat. sec. 63c-13.
(1) Enforce the provisions of this chapter;
(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 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;
(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 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
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 ch.
92, sec. 78. — Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942, from Ky. Stat. sec. 63c-13.