Said board of control shall appoint a State Entomologist to hold office during the pleasure of the board. He shall have an office at the experiment station, but shall receive no compensation other than his regular salary as a member of the station staff. The State Entomologist may designate members of the station staff to assist him in carrying out the provisions of sections 22-90, 22-96, 22-98, 22-99 and 22-100. He or any of his assistants or agents may, at any reasonable time, enter any public or private grounds in the performance of their duties. The State Entomologist may issue such bulletins of said experiment station as in his judgment are needed to convey information about pests; may conduct experiments and investigations regarding injurious insects and the remedies for their attacks and may diffuse such information by means of correspondence, lectures and published matter.
(1949 Rev., S. 3255; 1961, P.A. 6.)
History: 1961 act allowed entomologist to designate staff members to assist in carrying out provisions of specified sections, authorized entomologist or agents to enter public or private grounds in performance of duties, deleted detailed provisions re entomologist's inspection of orchards, fields etc. and subsequent orders which he may make concerning treatments etc., deleted provision imposing fine for noncompliance with orders and deleted provisions re records and reports of expenses.
Structure Connecticut General Statutes
Title 22 - Agriculture. Domestic Animals
Chapter 426 - Agricultural Experiment Stations
Section 22-79. - Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station. Board of control.
Section 22-79a. - Office of Aquatic Invasive Species. Established. Duties. Staffing.
Section 22-80. - Meetings of board; officers.
Section 22-81. - Duties of board. Reports.
Section 22-81a. - Testing of mosquitoes for public health threat.
Section 22-81b. - Best practices and guidelines for investigating and treating bed bug infestations.
Section 22-82. - Endowment of agricultural experiment station.
Section 22-82a. - Inventions and discoveries by employees.
Section 22-83. - Research and experiment in tobacco growing.
Section 22-84a. - Research consistent with goals of integrated pest management.
Section 22-88. - State Entomologist; appointment; duties.
Section 22-89. - Registration of honey bees.
Section 22-90a. - Pollinator Advisory Committee. Membership.
Section 22-90b. - Model pollinator habitat. Requirements.
Section 22-91. - Gypsy and brown-tail moths.
Section 22-91a. - Gypsy moth as public nuisance.
Section 22-91b. - Survey of infestation by State Entomologist.
Section 22-91c. - Roadside spraying. State aid.
Section 22-91d. - Assessment of landowners.
Section 22-91e. - Emergency. Appropriations.
Section 22-91f. - Epidemic conditions.
Section 22-96. - Certificate of inspection of imported nursery stock.
Section 22-97. - Nursery and nursery stock defined.
Section 22-98. - Nursery stock; powers of State Entomologist.
Section 22-99. - Nurserymen and dealers to register.
Section 22-100. - Nursery certificate. Uninspected stock.
Section 22-101. - Penalty. Appeal.
Section 22-102. - Storrs Agricultural Experiment Station.
Section 22-103. - Acceptance of certain federal acts.
Section 22-104. - Use of federal funds by experiment stations.