As Amended
SEC. 69-25-7. Powers and duties of commissioner.
(1) The Commissioner of Agriculture and Commerce is empowered to conduct such inspections and promulgate and enforce such quarantine regulations as may be necessary in carrying out the provisions of this article.
(2) The Commissioner of Agriculture and Commerce shall from time to time make rules and regulations for carrying out the provisions and requirements of this article, including rules and regulations under which his inspectors and other employees shall (a) inspect places, plants and plant products, and things, and substances used or connected therewith, (b) investigate, control, eradicate and prevent the dissemination of insect pests, diseases and noxious weeds, and (c) supervise or cause the treatment, cutting and destruction of plants and plant products and other things infested or infected therewith, but no such rule or regulation shall be effective unless first submitted to and approved by the advisory board established under the provisions of Section 69-25-3. The inspectors and employees employed by the commissioner shall have authority to carry out and execute the regulations and orders of the * * * commissioner and shall have authority under direction of the commissioner to carry out the provisions of this article.
SOURCES: Codes, Hemingway's 1921 Supp. Secs. 6382d, 6382h; 1930, Secs. 6959, 6963; 1942, Secs. 4980, 4984; Laws, 1920, ch. 252; 1971, ch. 446, Secs. 3, 7; Laws, 2003, ch. 401, § 4, SB 2793, eff from and after July 1, 2003.
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