257.020 Duties of Board of Agriculture. 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.
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