Florida Statutes Title XXXV. Agriculture, Horticulture, and Animal Industry § 585.671. Control and eradication of equine infectious anemia and equine piroplasmosis

(a) To employ such persons and to make such contracts as are necessary to carry out the purpose of this law.

(b) To negotiate with officials of institutions of research and to make such contracts as are necessary to conduct research for the purpose of developing and effectuating improved methods of diagnosis, control, and eradication of equine infectious anemia and equine piroplasmosis. Toward this end it may employ such competent guidance as it deems necessary in negotiating said contracts.