MINNESOTA BARBERRY ERADICATION LAW 
GENERAL LAWS OF MINNESOTA FoR 1919 
Chapter 81—S. F. No. 120 
An act requiring the owner or occupant of premises within this 
state, on which Mahoma bushes and Barlterry bushes of the rust pro- 
ducing varieties may be grown, to destroy the same, declaring the same 
to be a public nuisance; imposing certain powers and duties with refer- 
ence to the same on the state entomologist; and providing penalties 
for the violation thereof. 
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Minnesota: 
Section 1. All Barberry (Berberis sp.) bushes and all Mahonia 
(Mahonia sp.) bushes except the species and variety known as Japa- 
nese barberry (Berberis thunbergit) are rust producing species and are 
hereby declared to be, and the same are, a public nuisance and a menace 
to the public welfare, and their maintenance, propagation, sale or intro- 
duction into the state is forbidden. It shall be the duty of every person 
owning, occupying or having charge of any premises on which such 
bushes of the rust producing varieties are grown, or at any time found 
growing, to forthwith destroy such bushes. 
Section 2. The state entomologist is authorized, and it is hereby 
made his duty to cause all such rust producing Mahonia bushes or 
Barberry bushes within the State of Minnesota to be eradicated. The 
state entomologist shall make rules and regulations relating to the most 
convenient and expedient method of eradicating and destroying such 
rust producing Mahonia bushes or Barberry bushes; he shall have the 
power to appoint one or more agents to enforce the provisions of this 
act, and he, or his agents, shall have free access at all reasonable hours 
to any premises to determine whether such rust producing Mahonia 
bushes or Barberry bushes are growing thereon, and to require reports 
from the owners or occupants of any premises as to the presence of 
such bushes thereon. 
Section 3. In pursuance of his powers hereby granted, whenever 
the state entomologist, or his agents, shall have found Mahonia bushes 
or Barberry bushes of such rust producing varieties on any premises, 
it shall be the duty of the state entomologist, or his agents, as the case 
may be, to immediately notify or cause to be notified, the owner or 
occupant of the premises on which such bushes are growing; such 
notice shall be sent to such owner or occupant in such form as the state 
entomologist shall prescribe, and if such Mahonia bushes or Barberry 
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