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Sec 11 Evei-y lot, parcel, or package, of commercial insecticides or fungicides or 

 materials to be used for fungicidal or insecticidal purposes, sold, offered, or exposed 

 for sale, witliin this State, shall be accompanied by a plainly printed label, stating 

 the name, brand, and trademark, if any there be, under which the insecticide or 

 fungicide is sold, the name and address of the manufacturer, importer, or dealer, the 

 place of manufacture, and a chemical analysis, stating the percentages claimed to be 

 tlierein, of the substance or substances alleged to have insecticidal properties, speci- 

 fying the form or forms in which each is present, and the materials from which all 

 constituents of tlie insecticides are derived. All analyses of substances for which 

 methods have been agreed upon by the American Association of Official Agricultural 

 Chemists, are to be made by such official methods. In the case of those insec- 

 ticides the selling price of which is less than one half cent per pound, said label 

 need only give a correct general statement of the nature and composition of the 

 insecticide it accompanies. 



Sec. 12. The manufacturer, importer, agent of. or dealer in any commercial 

 insecticide, or materials used for insecticidal purposes, the selling price of which 

 to the consumer is not less than one half cent (J cent) per pound, shall, before the 

 same is offered for sale, obtain a certificate of registration from the secretary of 

 the board of regents of the University of California, countersigned by the said 

 university, authorizing the sale of insecticides in this state, and shall securely fix 

 to each lot, parcel, or package of insecticide the word "registered" with the number 

 of registry. The manufacturer, importer, agent, or dealer obtaining such registry 

 shall pay to the secretary the sum of one (.$1.00) dollar, to be applied as provided in 

 section 18 of this act; such registration shall expire on the thirtieth day of June of 

 the fiscal year for which it was given ; provided, the provisions of this section shall 

 not apply to any agent whose principals shall have obtained a certificate of registra- 

 tion as herein provided. Every such manufacturer, importer, agent, or dealer, who 

 makes or sells, or offers for sale, any such substances, under a name or brand, 

 shall file, on or before the first day of July, in each year, a statement, under oath, 

 with the director of the agricultural experiment station of the University of Cali- 

 fornia stating such name or brand, and stating the component parts, in accordance 

 with the provisions of section 11 of this act, of the substances to be sold or offered 

 for sale, or manufactured under each such name or brand. 



Sec. 13. The said director shall annually, on or before the first day of Septem- 

 ber take samples in accordance with tlie provisions of section 14 hereof, of the sub- 

 Ftance made, sold, or offered for sale, under every such name or brand, and cause 

 analyses to be made thereof in accordance with the provisions of section 11 hereof, 

 and said analyses may include such other determinations as said director may at any 

 time deem advisable. Dealers in or manufacturers of insecticides must give free 

 access to the director of the agricultural experimnt station, or his duly authorizd 

 deputy, to all materials which they may place on the market for sale in California 

 Whenever the analysis certified by the said director shall show a deficiency of not 

 more than five per cent of the substance alleged to have insecticidal properties, the 

 statement of the manufacturer or importer, as required in section 11 of this act, 

 shall not be deemed to be false in the meaning of this act; provided, that this act 

 shall not apply to sales of insecticidal materials made to a registered manufacturer 

 of insecticides or to sales for export outside of this state; provided further, that the 

 said director of the agricultural experiment station of he University of California 

 shall upon the receipt of a sample of insecticide, accompanied with a nominal tee ot 

 one dollar furnish to the user of said commercial insecticide such examination or 

 finalysis of the sample as will substantially establish the conformity or non-conformity 

 of the said insecticide to the guarantee under which it was sold. 



Sec 14 The director of the agricultural experiment station of the University of 

 California, in person or by deputy, is hereby authorized to take a sample, not 

 exceeding two pounds in weight for analysis by the said director or his deputies, 

 from anv lot, parcel or package of insecticide or fungicide, or material, or mixture 

 of materials used for insecticidal or fungicidal purposes, which may be in the pos- 

 session of any manufacturer, importer, agent or dealer; but said sample shall De 

 drawn in the presence of said party or parties in interest, or their representatives. 

 In lots of five tons or less, samples shall be drawn from at least ten packages, or, 

 if- less than ten packages are present, all shall be sampled; in lots of over five 

 tons, not less than twenty packages shall be sampled. The samples so drawn shall 

 be thorouglilv mixed, and from it two equal samples shall be drawn and placed in 

 glass vessels, carefully sealed and a lebel placed on each, stating the name oi 

 brand of the insecticide or material sampled, the name of the party from whose 

 stock the samnle was drawn, and the time and place of drawing; and said label 



party who.se stock was sampled, and the other by the director of the agiicultuial 

 experiment station of the University of California. 



Sec. 15. The director of the agricultural experiment station of tlie University 



