7 M.R.S. §2352: Responsibility of the commissioner

The commissioner may institute such pest control survey programs as the commissioner considers essential to the welfare of the industry. The commissioner 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, designate by rule those potato pests and diseases that 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 the commissioner 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.