The boards of supervisors in the various counties of the state and the governing bodies in the various municipalities of the state are hereby authorized and empowered, in their discretion, to appropriate money out of the general funds of the counties and municipalities to be used for the purpose of cooperating with the Commissioner of the Department of Agriculture and Commerce in eradicating serious insect pests, rodents, plant parasites, plant diseases and noxious weeds and in protecting the counties and municipalities from serious insect pests, rodents, plant parasites, plant diseases and noxious weeds.
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