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are authorized and empowered to enter lipon or into any premises, land, build- 

 iugs, iuclosures, or other places, for the purpose of inspectiug any artiele which 

 is subject to or may be subject to infestation with any insect injurious to any 

 artiele which grows upon or in or from the soll by processes of plant growth, 

 or the egg.s, larvae of pupae of such insects or with any disease injurious to 

 any such artiele or articles and for the further purpose of enforcing any of the 

 laws of this State relating to horticultural quarantine. or horticultural inspection 

 or the al)atement of horticultural nuisances or any other duties imposed by law 

 upon such inspectors and other persons authorized to enforce the Inspection and 

 horticultural laws of Oregon. Every person, firm or Corporation doing business 

 as a common carrier within the State of Oregon shall, upon the arrival of any 

 shipment of nursery stock, trees, plants, vines, shrubs, cuttings, or scions, i^each 

 pits and other seeds used for growing nursery stock at the Station or other 

 place to which the same is consigned, notify the state inspector if there be one 

 in the county in which said shipment has arrived, or if there be no State inspector 

 in said county, shall notify the county inspector of said county and if there be 

 neither State inspector nor county inspector in said county shall notify the com- 

 missioner of the State Board of Horticulture of the district in which said county 

 is situated, of the arrival of such shipment and the date and place of arrival, 

 and shall not deliver such shipment to the consignee until authorized to do so 

 by the state inspector, county inspector or commissioner or other officer of the 

 State Board of Horticulture ; provided, however, that if such shipment originated 

 within the State of Oregon and the uotice be given personally or by telephone or 

 telegraph and inspection has not been commenced within seventy-two hours from 

 the time of sending notice; or if such notice be sent by mail and inspection has 

 not l)een commenced within as much time more than seventy-two hours as is 

 usually required for a letter to go from the place of arrival of such shipment 

 to the residence of the inspector notified, then such shipment originating in 

 Oregon may be delivered to the consignee. It shall be the duty of the inspector 

 or commissioner receiving notice of the arrival of any shipment of nursery stock, 

 trees, plants, vines, shrubs, cuttings, or scions, to inspect or cause to be inspected 

 said shipment as soon as can be reasonably done without omitting the Perform- 

 ance of other official duties equally urgent. Upon the request of any nursery- 

 man or tree dealer doing business within the State of Oregon, the commissioner 

 of the State Board of Horticulture for the district in which the shipping place 

 of business of such nurseryman or tree dealer is located may deputize a suitable 

 person to inspect outgoing shipments from said nurseryman or tree dealer, and 

 said nurseryman or tree dealer shall pay such person so deputized for his 

 Services while they are required by such nurseryman or tree dealer. In case the 

 shipping business of any two or more nurserymen and tree dealers is not in the 

 aggregate more than one person can properly inspect and such group shall make 

 satisfactory arrangements for the payment of the person making such inspection, 

 the commissioner may deputize a person to inspect the shipments of all members 

 of such group. No person deputized by a [the] commissioner to inspect outgoing 

 shipments of nursery stock shall make any certificate concerning such shipments 

 which is not true, and no person so deputized shall allow a certificate of iusi^ec- 

 tion, given by him to be attached to any tree, shrub, vine, plant, scion, bud or 

 box, crate, bale, bündle or eontainer of the same or of any of them unless he 

 has personally inspected the articles and all of them immediately liefore signing 

 such certificate, which must be dated in writing at the time it is signed. The 

 commissioner may revoke deputization of any siich person at any time If he 

 believes such person is not properly doing his duty. [L. O. L., § 5482 ; L. 1913, 

 Chap. 174, See. 1 ; L. 1915, Chap. 205 ; L. 1917, Chap. 235.] 



§8857. District Commissioners to Instruct and Supervise County Inspectors. 



It shall be the duty of the state district commissioner to instruct and educate 



