THE MONTHLY BULLETIN. 343 



STATE QUARANTINE LAW. 



[Approved January 2, 1912.] 

 The people of the State of California do enact as folloivs: 



Section 1. Any person, persons, firm or corporation who sliall receive, bring or 

 rause to be brought into tlie State of California, any nursery stock, trees, slirubs. 

 plants, vines, cuttings, grafts, scions, buds or fruit pits, or fruit or vegetables, or 

 seed, shall immediately after the arrival thereof notify the State Commissioner of 

 Horticulture, or deputy quarantine officer, or quarantine guardian of the district or 

 county in which such nursery stock, or fruit or vegetables or seed are received, of 

 their arrival, and hold the same without unnecessarily moving the same, or placing 

 such articles where they may be harmful, for the immediate inspection of such State 

 Commissioner of Horticulture, or deputy quarantine officer or guardian. If there is 

 no quarantine guardian or state horticultural quarantine officer in the county where 

 such nursery stock or fruit or vegetable, or seed is received, it shall then be the 

 duty of such person, persons, firm or corporation to notify the State Commissioner 

 of Horticulture, who sliall make immediate arrangements for their inspection. The 

 State Commissioner of Horticulture, deputy quarantine officer, quarantine guardian 

 or such person or persons as shall be commissioned by the State Commissioner of ' 

 Horticulture to make such inspection, or to represent said Commissioner, is hereby 

 authorized and empowered to enter at any time into any car, warehouse, depot or 

 upon any ship within the boundaries of the State of California whether in the 

 stream or at the dock, wharf, mole, or any other place where such nursery stock or 

 fruit or vegetables or seed or other described articles are received or in which such 

 nursery stock or fruit or vegetables or Seed is imported into the State, for the pur- 

 pose of making the investigation or examination to ascertain whether such nursery 

 stock, trees, shrubs, plants, vines, cuttings, gi-afts, scions, buds, fruits, pits, fi'uit, veg- 

 etables or seed is infested with any species of injurious insects, or their eggs, larvee 

 or pupae or- other animal or plant disease. 



If after such examination or inspection, any of the said described articles are 

 found to be so infested or infected as aforesaid, then it shall be the duty of the 

 owner, owners, or persons, firm or corporation having charge or possession thereof 

 to so disinfect at his or their expense such portion or portions of the ship, dock, 

 wharf, mole, car, warehouse or depot where said articles may have been located in 

 such a manner as to destroy all infection or infestation present or that is liable to 

 be present, and all articles or packages or soils apt to be so infested or infected 

 shall be held until the said articles or packages or soils have been thoroughly disin- 

 fected and all injurious insects, or their eggs, larvpe or pupae or other animal or 

 plant disease have been eradicated and destroyed ; provided, however, that all arti- 

 cles of nursery stock, trees, shrubs, plants, vines, cuttings, grafts, scions, buds, fruit 

 pits, fruits, vegetables or seed which are infested or infected with such species of 

 injurious insects or their eggs, larvae or pupae or other animal or plant ' disease 

 which may be or be liable to be injurious to the orchards, vineyards, gardens or 

 farms within said State, shall be destroyed or reshipped out of the State as herein- 

 after provided. The said officer so making such inspection shall not permit any of 

 the described articles so coming in contact with said infested or infected articles or 

 any articles which might convey infection or infestation to be removed or taken 

 from any such car, warehouse, depot, ship, dock, wharf or any other place until 

 after such infection or infestation shall have been destroyed. 



Sec. 2. Each carload, case, box, package, crate, bale or bundle of trees, shrubs, 

 plants, vines, cuttings, grafts, scions, buds, fruit-pits, or fruit or vegetables or seed, 

 imported, or brought into this State, shall have plainly and legibly marked thereon 

 in a conspicuous manner and place the name and address of the shipper, owner, or 

 owners or person forwarding or shipping the same, and also the name of the person. 

 firm or corporation to whom the same is forwarded or shipped, or his or its respon- 

 sible agents, also the name of the country, state or territory where the contents were 

 grown and a statement of the contents therein. 



Sec. 3. When any shipment of nursery stock, trees, vines, plants, shrubs, cut- 

 tings, grafts, scions, buds, friut-pits or seed or vegetables or fruit, imported or 

 brought into this State, is found infested or infected with any species of injurious 

 insects, or their eggs, larvte or pupae or other animal or plant disease or there is 

 reasonable cause to presume that they may be so infested or infected, which would 

 cause damage, or be liable to cause damage, to the orchards, vineyards, gardens 

 or farms of the State of California, or which would be or be liable to be detrimental 

 thereto or to any portion of said State, or to any of the orchards, vineyards, gardens 

 or farms within said State such shipment shall be immediately destroyed by the 

 State Commissioner of Horticulture, his deputy quarantine officer, quarantine 

 guardians or other person or persons, who shall be commissioned by the State Com- 

 missioner of Horticulture to make such inspection ; provided, however, that if the 

 nature of the injurious insects, or their eggs, larva?, pupae or animal or plant 

 disease be such that no damage or detriment can be caused to the said orchards, 

 vineyards, gardens or farms of California or any of the same by the shipment 



