§ 2798. Powers and duties. The tick-borne disease institute
established by section twenty-seven hundred ninety-seven of this article
shall have the following powers and duties:

1. to develop and promote investigations into the cause, prevention,
detection, spread, methods of treatment, and cure of tick-borne
diseases; and

2. to develop and promote an outreach campaign directed toward
targeted high-risk populations to provide coordinated information
regarding the cause, prevention, detection, and treatment of tick-borne
disease.