8 Proposed Law. 



such county is situated shall certify that the person to be 

 appointed as such deputy is competent and shall recommend 

 his appointment. Every such deputy county inspector shall 

 have and perform all the powers and duties of a county 

 inspector except that of appointing deputies. The county 

 inspectors and deputy county inspectors and all other persons 

 authorized to enforce the horticultural and inspection laws of 

 Oregon are authorized and empowered to enter upon or into 

 any premises, land, buildings, enclosures, or other places, for 

 the purpose of inspecting any article which is subject to or 

 may be subject to infestation with any insect injurious to any 

 article which grows upon or in or from the soil by processes 

 of plant growth, or the eggs, larvse or pupse of such insects 

 or with any disease injurious to any such article 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 abatement 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 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 such 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 commissioner of the State Board of Horticul- 

 ture 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 officer of the State Board of Horticulture ; 

 provided, hoivever, that if such shipment originated within the 

 State of Oregon and the notice be given personally or by 

 telephone or telegraph and inspection has not been com- 

 menced within 72 hours from the time of sending notice; or 

 if such notice be sent by mail and inspection has not been 

 commenced within as much time more than 72 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 



