The Commissioner may carry on investigations of methods of control, eradication, and prevention of dissemination of plant pests and for that purpose may employ the necessary experts and may rent, lease, or purchase the necessary land, when required for this purpose.
(Ga. L. 1937, p. 659, § 4; Ga. L. 1996, p. 329, § 5.)
RESEARCH REFERENCES
C.J.S.
- 3 C.J.S., Agriculture, §§ 102 et seq., 115 et seq.
ALR.
- Right to and measure of compensation for animals or trees destroyed to prevent spread of disease or infection, 67 A.L.R. 208.