§303.  Holding institutes; lecturers

Farmers' institutes shall be held yearly at such time and at such places as the commissioner of agriculture and forestry may direct.  The commissioner shall make rules and regulations for organizing and conducting the institutes, and may call on the president of the Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College to furnish one or more lecturers from the faculty or student body, whose traveling expenses shall be paid going to or returning from the institute work.  The commissioner may also employ lecturers, male or female, at nominal salaries and traveling expenses while so employed, to perform duties in connection with institute work.  The course of instruction at institutes shall be so arranged as to present to those in attendance the results of the most recent investigations in practical and scientific agriculture.

Acts 2009, No. 24, §1, eff. June 12, 2009.