KRS 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.