Okla. Stat. tit. 2, § 2-3-50.17: Rules

A. The Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food, and Forestry

is authorized to promulgate rules, including, but not limited to:

1. Establishing quarantine areas in this state or any portion

thereof at the request of the board of directors;

2. Designating this state or any portion thereof as an

“eradicated area”; and

3. Governing the storage or other handling in the eradicated or

other quarantined areas of regulated articles and the movement of

regulated articles into or from these areas, when the Department

determines that an action is necessary, or reasonably appears

necessary, to prevent, eradicate, control, or retard the spread of

boll weevil.

B. 1. The Department shall promulgate rules establishing a

reasonable schedule of administrative penalties and fines for

violations of the Boll Weevil Eradication Act.

2. The Department shall promulgate rules necessary, expedient,

or appropriate for the performance, enforcement, or carrying out of

any of the purposes, objectives, or provisions of the Boll Weevil

Eradication Act.

3. Any rules promulgated pursuant to the Boll Weevil

Eradication Act, including the establishment of quarantines, shall

be promulgated in accordance with the Administrative Procedures Act.