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SEVENTEENTH ANNUAL REPOET OF THE 



for the purpose of propagating or nurturing 

 bees. If said inspector of apiaries, or his 

 assistants, shall find by inspection that any 

 person, firm or corporation is maintaining 

 a nuisance as described in this section, he 

 shall notify in writing the owner or occu- 

 pant of the premises containing the 

 nuisance so disclosed of the fact that such 

 nuisance exists. He shall include in such 

 notice a statement of the conditions con- 

 stituting such nuisance, and order that the 

 same be abated within a specified time 

 and a direction, written or printed, point- 

 ing out the methods which shall be taken 

 to abate the same. Such notice and order 

 may be served personally or by depositing 

 the same in the post office properlj^ 

 stamped, addressed to the owner or accu- 

 pant of the land or premises upon which 

 such nuisance exists, and the direction for 

 treatment may consist of a printed circu- 

 lar, bulletin or report of the Inspector of 

 Apiaries, or an extract from same. 



If Jfche person so notified shall refuse oi 

 fail to abate said nuisance in the manner 

 and in the time prescribed in said notice, 

 the Inspector of Apiaries may cause such 

 nuisance to be abated, and he shall certify 

 to the owner or person in charge of the 

 premises the cost of the abatement and if 

 not paid to him within sixty days there- 

 after the same may be recovered, together 

 with the costs of action, before any court 

 in the State having competent jurisdiction. 



In case notice and order served as afore- 

 said shall direct that any bees, hives, bee- 

 fixtures or appurtenances shall be destroyed 

 and the owner of such bees, hiveo, bee- 

 fixtures or appurtenances shall consider 



himself aggrieved by said order, he shall 

 have the privilege of appealing within three 

 days of the receipt of the notice to the 

 County Court of the county in which such 

 property is situated. The appeal shall be 

 made in like manner as appeals are taken 

 to the County Court from judgments of 

 justices of the peace. Written notice of 

 said appeal served by mail upon the In- 

 spector of Apiaries shaU operate to stay 

 all proceedings until the decision of the 

 county court, which may, after investi- 

 gating the matter, reverse, modify or 

 affirm the order of the Inspector of Apiaries. 

 Such decision shall then become the order 

 of the Inspector of Apiaries, who shall 

 serve the same as hereinbefore set forth 

 and shall fix a time within which such 

 decision must be carried out. 



Sec. 3. The Inspector of Apiaries shall, 

 on or before the second Monday in Decem- 

 ber of each calendar year, make a report 

 to the Governor and also to the Illinois 

 State Bee-Keepers' Association, stating the 

 number of apiaries visited, the number of 

 those diseased and treated, the number of 

 colonies of bees destroyed and the expense 

 incurred in the performance of his duties. 



Sec. 4. Any owner of a diseaijed apiary 

 or appliances taken therefrom, who shall 

 sell, barter or give away any such apiary, 

 appliance, queens or bees from such apiary, 

 expose other bees to the danger of con- 

 tracting such disease, or refuse to allow 

 the Inspector of Apiaries to inspect such 

 apiary, or appliances, shall be fined not 

 less than $50 nor more than $100. 



Approved June 7, 1911. 



