CHAPTER 246. 



AN ACT 



[h.b. 129.] 



To provide for the protection of horticulture and to prevent the intro- 

 duction into this State of insects or diseases or animals injurious 

 to fruits or vegetables of any kind, fruit trees, vines or bushes 

 or growing products of the soil; providing for a quarantine to pre- 

 vent the introduction of such insects, diseases and animals into the 

 State and their spread from infected districts within the State to 

 uninfected districts; making a violation of this act a misdemeanor 

 and providing the penalty therefor; providing for a State inspector 

 and defining his duties and fixing his compensation; providing that 

 said act shall be an emergency measure and go into effect immediately, 

 and repealing conflicting acts and parts of acts. 



Be it enacted by the People of the State of Oregon: 



Section 1. That, whenever, in order to prevent the intro- 

 duction into the State of Oregon of any tree, plant or fruit 

 disease, or of any injurious insect or animal not theretofore 

 widely prevalent or distributed within and throughout the 

 State of Oregon, the Commissioner at Large of the State 

 Board of Horticulture shall determine that it is necessary to 

 forbid the importation of any class of nursery stock or of any 

 other class of plants, fruits, vegetables, roots, bulbs, seeds or 

 other plant products or of any articles which are naturally, or 

 liable to be, the hosts of such injurious diseases, insects or 

 animals, from country or locality where such disease or in- 

 sect or animal infestation exists, he shall promulgate such 

 determination, specifying the country and locality and the 

 class of nursery stock or other article which in his judgment 

 should be excluded. Following the Promulgation of such 

 determination by the Commissioner at Large of the State 

 Board of Horticulture, and until the withdrawal of said Pro- 

 mulgation by him, the importation into the State of Oregon 

 of the article or articles specifed in the said Promulgation 

 from any country or locality specified in the said Promulga- 

 tion is hereby prohibited ; provided, that before such Promul- 

 gation becomes effective the Governor of the State of Oregon 

 shall approve such Promulgation in writing thereon, and such 

 Promulgation so approved shall have been published in three 

 newspapers designated by the Governor in writing. When- 

 ever the Commissioner at Large of the State Board of Horti- 

 culture deems it for the best interest of the State of Oregon to 



