257.020 Duties of Board of Agriculture.
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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.