The secretary may promulgate rules pursuant to chapter 1-26:

1. (1) To provide standards and procedures for location, suppression, prevention, retardation, and control of the spread of pests;
2. (2) To provide standards and procedures for plant quarantines and embargoes;
3. (3) To provide restrictions for the movement of pests, hosts, and regulated articles from quarantined or embargoed areas;
4. (4) To provide standards and procedures to seize, treat, or dispose of pests, hosts, or regulated articles;
5. (5) To provide standards for restrictions regarding inspection, disinfection, treatment, and certification of plants from quarantined or regulated areas; and
6. (6) To establish fees for inspection and certification or to recover costs for pest control efforts. In addition to the reporting requirements of chapter 1-26 notice of the rules shall be published in such newspapers in the quarantined area as the secretary may select.

Source: SL 1971, ch 220 , § 5; SL 1986, ch 326 , § 56.