The State Plant Board is abolished and its duties are transferred to the Commissioner of Agriculture and Commerce, and it shall henceforth be known as the Bureau of Plant Industry.
There is created an Advisory Board to the Bureau of Plant Industry, composed of the following: the State Chemist; the head of the Entomology and Plant Pathology Department, Mississippi State University of Agriculture and Applied Science; the head of the Plant and Soil Science Department, Mississippi State University of Agriculture and Applied Science; Alcorn State University Director of Agriculture and Applied Sciences; and, for a period of two (2) years, the following: one (1) soil conservation district commissioner appointed by the commissioner; two (2) residents of Mississippi who engage in the production of any crop, appointed by the commissioner; one (1) resident of the State of Mississippi who is a commercial applicator holding a license issued under the rules and regulations of the Bureau of Plant Industry, appointed by the commissioner; one (1) resident of the State of Mississippi who is a restricted use pesticide registrant or an employee of such person, appointed by the commissioner; one (1) resident of the State of Mississippi who is either a wholesale or retail horticulturist, appointed by the commissioner, and one (1) resident of the State of Mississippi who is a licensed landscape contractor, appointed by the commissioner, who shall serve with no compensation and whose duties are to advise the commissioner on all matters regarding the Bureau of Plant Industry. The commissioner shall meet annually with the advisory board and the Director of the Bureau of Plant Industry. It is the intent and purpose of this section to maintain the domicile of this division of the Department of Agriculture and Commerce at Mississippi State University of Agriculture and Applied Science, Mississippi State, Mississippi.
Structure Mississippi Code
Title 69 - Agriculture, Horticulture, and Animals
Chapter 25 - Plants, Plant and Bee Diseases
Article 1 - Division of Plant Industry; Plant Diseases and Pests
§ 69-25-3. Bureau of plant industry; advisory board
§ 69-25-5. Director of the Bureau of Plant Industry; State Entomologist
§ 69-25-9. Duties of commissioner and persons having knowledge of infected plants
§ 69-25-11. Inspections and quarantine; enforcement of
§ 69-25-13. Inspectors may be employed
§ 69-25-15. How infected or defective plants and products dealt with
§ 69-25-17. How proscribed plants and products may be shipped
§ 69-25-19. Unlawful to ship and deal in proscribed plants before inspection
§ 69-25-21. Suspected plants or products; information to be furnished commissioner
§ 69-25-23. Infected localities outside of state; shipments from prohibited
§ 69-25-25. Infected localities within this state; how dealt with
§ 69-25-27. Shipment through the state may be prohibited
§ 69-25-29. How shipments through the state may be made
§ 69-25-31. Reciprocal agreements
§ 69-25-35. Suspected premises and article may be examined
§ 69-25-37. Remedy of person affected
§ 69-25-39. Act of agent or officer deemed the act of principal or company
§ 69-25-41. Commissioner or any of his employees may sue out injunctions
§ 69-25-43. This article not to conflict with any act of Congress