263.515. Quarantined areas, authority from regulations by department--articles from other states regulated. - Missouri Statutes

Quarantined areas, authority from regulations by department--articlesfrom other states regulated.

263.515. 1. The department may promulgate regulations quarantiningthis state, or any portion thereof, and governing the storage or otherhandling in the quarantined areas of regulated articles and the movement ofregulated articles into or from such areas. The department shall determinewhen such action is necessary, or appears reasonably necessary, to preventor retard the spread of the boll weevil.

2. The department may promulgate regulations governing the movementof regulated articles from other states or portions thereof into this statewhen such state is known to be infested with the boll weevil.

(L. 1995 S.B. 66 § 7)