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AN ACT 



To define and enlarge the duties and powers of the Board of 

 State Viticultural Commissioners, and to authorize the 

 appointment of certain officers, and to protect the interests 

 of horticulture and viticulture. 



[Approved March 4, 1881.] 



The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and 

 Assembly, do enact as follows: 



Section 1. The Board of State Viticultural Commissioners, 

 in addition to the duties and powers pro\'ided for by the Act 

 entitled " An Act for the promotion of viticultural industries of 

 the State," approved April 15, 1880, shall, in resj^ect to dis- 

 eases of grape vines and vine pests, constitute a Board of 

 Health. It shall, in addition to laboratory work, cause prac- 

 tical experiments to be made to determine or demonstrate the 

 utility of known and new remedies against such diseases and 

 pests. 



Sec. 2. The Board shall elect of their own number, or 

 appoint from without their number, a competent person to 

 serve as Chief Executive Viticultural Officer, who shall per- 

 form also the duties of Viticultural Health Officer, under 

 direction of said Board, and subject to removal from such 

 office at any time by the Board. 



Sec. 3. The Viticultural Health Officer shall have power, 

 subject to the approval of the Board, to prevent the spread of 

 vine diseases and vine pests, by declaring and enforcing rules 

 and regulations in the nature of quarantine, to govern the 

 manner of, restrain, or prohibit the importation into the State, 

 and the distribution and disposal within the State, of all vines, 

 vine cuttings, debris of vineyards, empty fruit boxes, or other 

 material, on, or by which the contagion of vine diseases and 

 germs of vine pests may be introduced into the State, or trans- 

 ported from place to place within the State ; to declare and 

 enforce regulations approved by the Board for the disinfection 

 of vines, vine cuttings, vineyard debris, empty fruit boxes, and 

 other suspected material dangerous to vineyards, Avhile in 

 transit, or about to be distributed, or transported into, or within 

 the State ; to classify the vineyards ancl viticultural regions 

 of the State, according to the degree of health, or vine disease 

 prevailing therein, and to change the same as circumstances 

 may require to be done, subjecting each class to such varying 

 rules and regulations, respecting the introduction or transpor- 



