(1) The department shall formulate a program and promulgate all rules necessary for the successful implementation and administration of a comprehensive program for the control and eradication of equine infectious anemia and equine piroplasmosis within this state. For this purpose, the department may conduct research.
(2) In the discharge of its duty, the department shall have the power:
(a) To employ such persons and to make such contracts as are necessary to carry out the purpose of this law.
(b) To negotiate with officials of institutions of research and to make such contracts as are necessary to conduct research for the purpose of developing and effectuating improved methods of diagnosis, control, and eradication of equine infectious anemia and equine piroplasmosis. Toward this end it may employ such competent guidance as it deems necessary in negotiating said contracts.
History.—ss. 1, 2, ch. 63-442; ss. 14, 35, ch. 69-106; s. 41, ch. 90-321.
Structure Florida Statutes
Title XXXV - Agriculture, Horticulture, and Animal Industry
Part II - Disease Inspection, Control, and Eradication (Ss. 585.01-585.68)
585.08 - General powers of the department; rules.
585.09 - Procedure for condemnation of animals and property by department.
585.14 - Information concerning animal diseases.
585.145 - Control of animal diseases.
585.15 - Dangerous transmissible disease or pest a public nuisance.
585.16 - Powers of division in connection with certain diseases.
585.17 - Care of animals with transmissible diseases and liability therefor.
585.18 - Duty to report diseased animals.
585.20 - Injection of pathogenic organisms into animals.
585.21 - Sale of biological products.
585.22 - Public notice of general quarantines.
585.23 - Owners of animals and premises under quarantine to comply with rules.
585.38 - Injuring property used in the eradication of diseases of animals, etc.
585.40 - Violation of quarantine regulations.
585.45 - Right to declaratory judgment.
585.48 - Policy and purpose of ss. 585.50-585.59.
585.50 - Garbage feeding prohibited unless sterilized.
585.51 - Permitting of feeders of garbage.
585.52 - Requirement regarding the collection, transportation, and distribution of garbage.
585.59 - Penalties for violation.
585.61 - Animal disease diagnostic laboratory.
585.611 - Animal research identifying information.
585.671 - Control and eradication of equine infectious anemia and equine piroplasmosis.