Montana Code 80-7-502. Insect detection, surveillance, and control programs
80-7-502. Insect detection, surveillance, and control programs. The department may:
Terms Used In Montana Code 80-7-502
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- Infestation: means that a pest exists in such numbers, under certain conditions, and at certain times as to destroy or substantially damage or threaten to destroy livestock or other agricultural crops. See Montana Code 80-7-501
- Insect pest: includes the grasshopper, cutworm, pale western cutworm, armyworm, chinch bug, and any other insect or arthropod generally recognized as a destroyer of grain, hay, range, and horticulture crops. See Montana Code 80-7-501
- Person: includes a corporation or other entity as well as a natural person. See Montana Code 1-1-201
(1)employ permanent and seasonal personnel to administer this part;
(2)survey for and maintain surveillance of insect pests during appropriate seasons and enter upon any croplands in the course of conducting such surveillance;
(3)provide insect pest management services to particular agricultural commodity groups for the resolution of special or unusual insect pest problems;
(4)determine or assist a county to determine, upon investigation, whether a serious infestation exists or threatens to occur within a county;
(5)declare that an insect pest infestation constitutes a serious infestation;
(6)operate, contract for, or assist a county to obtain spraying or other appropriate services to counteract an actual or threatening serious infestation, having first determined that any person contracting to supply such services is properly equipped to apply substances designated and approved by the department;
(7)conduct, cooperate in, or coordinate upon request by any affected county, insect pest management services for serious pest infestations in one or more counties;
(8)assist counties, upon request, to coordinate county insect pest management programs in contiguous counties.