Authority to organize horticulture and quarantine districts;

purposes Sec. 1. (a) Horticultural and quarantine districts may be organized under this chapter for any or all of the following purposes: (1) To prevent the spread of contagious diseases among fruit, fruit trees, and fruit bearing plants. (2) To provide for the prevention, treatment, cure, and extirpation of: (A) fruit pests; and (B) diseases of fruit, fruit trees, and fruit bearing plants. (3) To: (A) provide for the purchase and maintenance of spraying machines, wagons, or other necessary apparatus to adequately spray fruit trees or other fruit bearing plants; (B) hire workers and teams to perform the required labor; and (C) incur the necessary expense to carry out the purposes of this chapter. (4) To hire experts to: (A) inspect fruit trees and fruit bearing plants found within a horticultural and quarantine district; and (B) prescribe the proper methods of treatment of diseases of fruit trees or fruit bearing plants. (b) A horticultural and quarantine district shall be administered by a voluntary association that has three (3) elected directors. [Pre-2008 Recodification Citation: 15-3-7-1.] As added by P.L.2-2008, SEC.7.