The Commissioner of Agriculture and Commerce shall appoint a full-time executive secretary and director, hereinafter called the "Director of the Bureau of Plant Industry," whose office shall be at Mississippi State University of Agriculture and Applied Science. The director shall serve at the will and pleasure of the commissioner and shall receive a salary in an amount to be determined by the commissioner. It shall be the duty of the director to enforce the rules and regulations adopted by the commissioner and to perform such other functions that may be assigned to him by the commissioner.
The Commissioner of Agriculture and Commerce and the Director of the Bureau of Plant Industry shall appoint a full-time State Entomologist, who shall be a qualified entomologist and whose office shall be at Mississippi State University of Agriculture and Applied Science.
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