A.  The department shall, through cooperation with other state agencies and local governing authorities, develop a program to designate certain roads, including but not limited to dead-end roads and strategically placed parish roads, as airstrips to aid in the use of aircraft for agricultural purposes.

B.  Such roads shall be used only upon declaration by the department that an agricultural emergency exists making it necessary for certain roads to be used as airstrips by aircraft for agricultural purposes only.

C.  The department shall adopt such rules and regulations, in accordance with the Administrative Procedure Act, as it deems necessary to implement the provisions of this Section.

Acts 1995, No. 334, §1.