WEED AND SEED LAWS 



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STANDARD OF PURITY AND VIABILITY OF AGRICULTURAL 

 SEEDS — Continued. 



Section 17. It is hereby made the duty of the state food and 

 dairy commissioner to enforce the provisions of this act. The in- 

 spectors, assistants and chemists appointed by the state food and 

 dairy commissioner shall perform the same duties and have the 

 same authority under this act as are prescribed by chapter one 

 hundred and sixty-six (166), laws of the thirty-first general as- 

 sembly, and the said state food and dairy commissioner may ap- 

 point, with the approval of the executive council, such analysts and 

 chemists as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this 

 act. 



Section 18. Whoever sells, offers or exposes for sale any of the 

 seeds specified in sections thirteen (13) and fourteen (14) of this 

 act which are mixed, adulterated or misbranded, or any agricul- 

 tural seeds which do not comply with sections ten (10), eleven (11) 

 and twelve (12) of this act, or who shall counterfeit or use a 

 counterfeit of any of the tags prescribed by this act; or who shall 

 prevent or attempt to prevent any inspector in the discharge of 

 his duty from collecting samples or who shall violate any of the 

 provisions of this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon 

 conviction, shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars ($100) 

 and costs of prosecution ; provided, that no one shall be convicted 



