R.I. Gen. Laws § 4-4-12

The governor is authorized to accept on behalf of the state the rules and regulations prepared by the secretary of agriculture under and in pursuance of § 3, 21 U.S.C. § 114, of an act of congress approved May 29, 1884, entitled “An act for the establishment of a bureau of animal industry, to prevent the exportation of diseased cattle, and to provide means for the suppression and extirpation of pleuropneumonia and other contagious diseases among domestic animals”, 21 U.S.C. § 113 et seq., and to cooperate with the authorities of the United States in the provisions of that act.