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Title 7: AGRICULTURE AND ANIMALS

Part 5: PLANT INDUSTRY

Chapter 411: CONTROL AND ERADICATION OF POTATO PESTS AND DISEASES HEADING: PL 1983, C. 565, §8 (NEW)

§2352. Responsibility of the commissioner

The commissioner may institute such pest control survey programs as he deems essential to the welfare of the industry. He may, in conjunction with the Maine Agricultural Experiment Station, and other public and private agencies, and in a manner consistent with the Maine Administrative Procedure Act, Title 5, chapter 375, designate by rule those potato pests and diseases which pose a threat to the Maine potato industry, and by rule provide for the inspection, seizure, destruction or other deposition of any seed, plant, culls or other materials within the State whenever he finds such materials to be infested, or are reasonably believed to be infested, with any designated pest or disease, and further provide for the disinfection of any vehicle or other conveyance so infested. [1983, c. 565, §8 (NEW).]

SECTION HISTORY

1983, c. 565, §8 (NEW).

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Statutes > Maine > Title7 > Title7ch411sec0 > Title7sec2352

Title 7: AGRICULTURE AND ANIMALS

Part 5: PLANT INDUSTRY

Chapter 411: CONTROL AND ERADICATION OF POTATO PESTS AND DISEASES HEADING: PL 1983, C. 565, §8 (NEW)

§2352. Responsibility of the commissioner

The commissioner may institute such pest control survey programs as he deems essential to the welfare of the industry. He may, in conjunction with the Maine Agricultural Experiment Station, and other public and private agencies, and in a manner consistent with the Maine Administrative Procedure Act, Title 5, chapter 375, designate by rule those potato pests and diseases which pose a threat to the Maine potato industry, and by rule provide for the inspection, seizure, destruction or other deposition of any seed, plant, culls or other materials within the State whenever he finds such materials to be infested, or are reasonably believed to be infested, with any designated pest or disease, and further provide for the disinfection of any vehicle or other conveyance so infested. [1983, c. 565, §8 (NEW).]

SECTION HISTORY

1983, c. 565, §8 (NEW).

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Statutes > Maine > Title7 > Title7ch411sec0 > Title7sec2352

Title 7: AGRICULTURE AND ANIMALS

Part 5: PLANT INDUSTRY

Chapter 411: CONTROL AND ERADICATION OF POTATO PESTS AND DISEASES HEADING: PL 1983, C. 565, §8 (NEW)

§2352. Responsibility of the commissioner

The commissioner may institute such pest control survey programs as he deems essential to the welfare of the industry. He may, in conjunction with the Maine Agricultural Experiment Station, and other public and private agencies, and in a manner consistent with the Maine Administrative Procedure Act, Title 5, chapter 375, designate by rule those potato pests and diseases which pose a threat to the Maine potato industry, and by rule provide for the inspection, seizure, destruction or other deposition of any seed, plant, culls or other materials within the State whenever he finds such materials to be infested, or are reasonably believed to be infested, with any designated pest or disease, and further provide for the disinfection of any vehicle or other conveyance so infested. [1983, c. 565, §8 (NEW).]

SECTION HISTORY

1983, c. 565, §8 (NEW).