The department is empowered to join with the United States Department of Agriculture or to proceed independently in a program to control and eradicate, wherever possible, spreading decline resulting from a burrowing nematode (Radopholus similis (Cobb) Thorne) in the state.History.—s. 15, ch. 59-261.
Control of spreading decline
Fla. Stat. § 581.151, under Plant Industry.
Fla. Stat. § 581.151