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.
Fla. Stat. § 581.151
Control of spreading decline
History.--s. 15, ch. 59-261.
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