1918.] AGRICULTURAL LAWS. IIT 



point for that purpose, .shall huve access at reasonaljle times to any 

 apiary or place where bees are kept or where honeycomb and aj)- 

 jjliances are stored." The state entomologist is authorized to make 

 suitable regulations regarding inspections and quarantine and to pre- 

 scribe suitaijlc forms for permanent records which shall be on file and 

 open to i)ul)lic inspection, and to make reasonable rules for the services 

 of said deputies or inspectors, and may pay a reasonaljle sum for such 

 services. Xo person or corporation shall remove bees under quarantine 

 to another locality without obtaining the written ijermission of a duly 

 authoriy.ed inspector. No person o/ tran.sportation company shall re- 

 ceive for transportation any colony or package of bees, unless said 

 ■colon.N' or package is accompanied by a certificate of good health, 

 furnished by a duly authorized inspector. No person or transportation 

 company shall deliver any colony or package of l)ee.s brought from any 

 other country, province, state or territory unless accompanied )>y a 

 certificate of health furnished by a duly authorized incpector of such 

 country, province, state or territory. Any person or transportation 

 company receiving a shipment of bees from without the state, unac- 

 companied by such certificate, shall, l^efore delivering such shipment 

 to its concignee, notify the state entomologist and hold such shij^ment 

 until inspected by a duly authorized inspector. In case contagious dis- 

 eases are found therein such shipment shall be returned to the con- 

 signor or delivered to a duly authorized inspector of this stale for 

 treatment or destruction, provided, the requirements of this section shall 

 not apply to shipments of brood comb, with or without bees, suspected 

 of being diseased and consigned to the state entomologist, the agricul- 

 tural experiment station or any duly authorized apiary inspector of the 

 state or to the bureau of entomology of the United States or the United 

 States department of agriculture, and provided, there shall be no de- 

 struction of any shipment of bees as herein provided in the absence of 

 reasonable notice to the consignee thereof. No person shall resist or 

 hinder the state entomologist, or any deputy or inspector whom he may 

 appoint, in the performance of the duties imposed by this section. Any 

 person violating any of the provisions of this section shall be fined not 

 more than fifty dollars. The necessary expenses incurred under the 

 provisions of this section to an amount not exceeding seven hundred 

 and fifty dollars annually, shall be paid by the comptroller on duly 

 accredited vouchers. 



Sec. 2111. Gypsy and brown-tail moth. The insects commonly 

 known as the gypsj'^ moth and the brown- tail moth, being serious pests 

 of vegetation, are, in all stages of their development, declared to be a 

 public nuisance. The state entomologist shall have authority to sup- 

 press and exterminate said gypsy and brown-tail moths and may 

 employ such assistants and laborers as he deems expedient; may cut 

 and burn brush and worthless trees in fields, pastures or woodlands 

 or alons" the roadsides on any public or private grounds; and may 

 prune, spray, scrape or fill cavities in any fruit, shade or forest trees 

 or clean up any rubbish for the purpose of furthering said work. The 

 said state entomologist, or any of his assistants, deputies, agents or 

 employees, shall have the right, 'at all times, to enter any public or 

 private grounds in the performance of their duties. Any person trans- 

 porting living eggs, larvae, pupae or adults of the gypsy or brown-tail 

 moths into the state, or from an infested region within the state to a 

 region not hitherto infested, shall be fined not more than one thousand 

 dollars or imprisoned not more than one year. Any person wilfully ob- 

 structing or hindering said state entomologist or his assistants or em- 

 ployees in the work of suppressing said insects shall be fined not less 

 than twenty-five nor more than five hundred dollars. 



