This Chapter is divided into the following sections: Governmental policy for protection of potatoes and tomatoes from golden nematode; Duty of Secretary of Agriculture; Inspections, quarantines, restrictions, crop destruction, compensation of growers; Expenditure of funds, discretion of Secretary; State legislative action authorizing restrictions on or destruction of crops; Computation of compensation paid growers, method, finality of determination; Expenses, employment of personnel, printing and binding, purchase of passenger-carrying vehicles; Chapter as supplemental legislation. Among the duties envisaged for the Secretary of Agriculture are: cooperation with States and other agencies in making inspections, applying suppressive measures, enforcing quarantines, enforcing restrictions on the planting of potatoes and tomatoes, destroying potatoes and tomatoes growing in soil found infested or exposed to infestation with the golden nematode, and compensating growers in areas infected, or exposed to infestation, with the golden nematode for not planting potatoes or tomatoes or for losses resulting from destruction for the purposes of this chapter of potatoes or tomatoes. However, the Secretary of Agriculture shall not order mandatory restrictions on the planting of potatoes or tomatoes, or destruction of potatoes or tomatoes unless the State concerned shall have enacted legislation authorizing such restrictions or destruction.
الولايات المتحدة الأمريكية · 1948-06-15