SAN JOSE SCALE AED ]NTJESEEY INSPECTION 



LAW. 



AN ACT to prevent the introduction and spread of San Jose" 

 scale or other injurious insects or infectious diseases of 

 trees, vines, shrubs or plants grown in this State or 

 imported from other states, provinces or countries. 



[Act 137, Laws 1897.] 



Section 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That Beard of Agri- 

 it shall be the duty of the State Board of Agriculture, imme- poln'thispe^or 

 diately upon the taking effect of this act, to appoint some £ld Mchlrds 

 competent person who shall be known as State inspector of 

 nurseries and orchards, who shall hold office during the pleas- Term of office. 

 ure of said board, whose duty shall be to inspect any aud 

 all nurseries in the State of Michigan, as to whether they are 

 infested by San Jose" scale or other injurious or destructive 

 insects or infected with infectious or contagious diseases, and 

 if upon such inspection he find no such dangerous insects or 

 diseases, he shall upon payment of per diem fee hereinafter 

 provided, give to the owner of such nurseries a certificate to 

 that effect, and shall file a duplicate certificate with the State 

 Board of Agriculture; and in case he shall find present in any 

 such nursery any of said dangerous insects or diseases, he 

 shall notify the owner thereof in writing, and shall direct him 

 within five days to use such means as will exterminate such 

 dangerous diseases or insects, and the owner of such nursery 

 shall not ship nor deliver any such trees, vines, shrubs or 

 plants affected by such dangerous insects or diseases until he 

 shall have secured from said inspector a certificate as afore- 

 said. 



Sec. 2. The owner of such nursery, trees, vines, shrubs or owner of nur- 

 plants shall, within the time specified'in such notice, take such aS/in^s 

 steps for the destruction of such insects or diseases as will t r r e ^ 6eases in 

 exterminate the same, and shall not ship nor deliver any Not)0 ship nor 

 such trees, vines, shrubs nor plants affected with such dan- f e ^f e r d tree8 

 gerous diseases or inserts under the penalty of a fine of one ' 



