HORTICULTURAL INSPECTION LAW 197 



MISCKI^LANKOUS PAPHRS 



THE NEW HORTICULTURAL INSPECTION LAW OF NEBRASKA. 



After years of waiting and being without adequate legal protection 

 against unscrupulous persons in other states who might wish to unload 

 their infected trees, vines, and plants on Nebraska planters, we now 

 have a law that will adequately protect our planters and nurserymen. 

 Nebraska has been the only state in the United States which did not 

 have some sort of an inspection law on trees, vines and plants up to the 

 last session of our legislature. On the following pages will be found 

 the bill in full, as passed by the last legislature. 



THE NEW HORTICULTURAL INSPECTION LAW OF NEBRASKA. 

 House Roll 171, Thirty-third Session of the Legislature of Nebraska. 



An act to prevent the introduction into and dissemination of, and 

 for the eradication within the state of Nebraska of dangerously injurious 

 insects and plant diseases, by providing for the inspection of nurserj' 

 stock, fruit, shade, ornamental and other trees, shrubs, and plants by 

 the state entomologist or his assistant inspectors, by fixing fees for the 

 same and to provide a penalty for the violation of this act. 

 Be it Enacted by the People of the State of Nebraska: 



Section 1. That it shall be the duty of the state entomologist of 

 Nebraska to seek out and suppress pernicious insect pests and injurious 

 and contagious plant diseases destructive to the horticultural and agri- 

 cultural interests of the state, and conduct experiments when necessary 

 to accomplish that end. 



Sec. 2. In order to accomplish the purposes of this act, the state 

 entomologist, with his assistants and employees, is hereby authorized to 

 enter upon any public premises, parks, cemeteries, or other premises, or 

 upon any land of any firm, corporation, or private individual, within the 

 state of Nebraska, for the purpose of inspection, destroying, treating, or 

 experimenting upon the insects or diseases aforesaid. Should any in- 

 sect or disease found by the state entomologist, or by any other oflacer 

 appointed by him, be, in his opinion, capable of eradication without the 

 destruction of the trees, plants, shrubs, or vines, then said oflBcers are 

 to treat or have treated, in order to prevent the dissemination of the 

 aforesaid insects or diseases, any and all suspicious trees, vines, shrubs, 

 or plants found to be in dangerous proximity to those infested as afore- 

 said. 



Sec. 3. That should the officer aforesaid, through his assistants and 

 employees, or by any notification whatsoever, find any trees, vines, shrubs, 



