LAWS RELATING TO ANIMAL INDUSTRY. 



any such authorization or designation, in respect to the confi- 

 dential or private transactions, property or business of any 

 person, firm, association or corporation, shall be guilty of a 

 misdemeanor and shall be disqualified from acting in any 

 official capacity in the department. In addition thereto, such 

 officer shall be liable in damages to any person, firm, associa- 

 tion or corporation for all injury resulting from such unlaw- 

 ful disclosure. 



SEC. 6. The director shall make a report to the governor Report to 

 at least sixty days before the commencement of each biennial go 

 session of the legislature. Such report shall give an account 

 of all matters pertaining to his department, together with 

 any recommendations, and shall specifically set forth a state- 

 ment of expenditures made by the department during the 

 period up to and including the thirtieth day of June preced- 

 ing said session. There shall also be set forth in such report 

 a statement of the organization plan of the department, 

 together with the number and classes of officers and employees 

 in the department and the compensation paid the same. 



SEC. 7. The attorney general shall be the legal adviser of Duty of 

 the department in all matters relating to the department and 

 to the powers and duties of its officers. Upon request of the 

 director, the attorney general, or under his direction, the dis- 

 trict attorney of any county in which the action is brought, 

 shall aid in any investigation, hearing, prosecution or trial 

 had under the laws which the director is required to admin- 

 ister, and shall institute and prosecute all necessary actions 

 or proceedings for the enforcement of such laws and for the 

 punishment of all violations thereof. The sheriffs and con- 

 stables in the several counties shall execute all lawful orders 

 of the director in such counties. 



SEC. 8. The director of the department of agriculture shall Powers of 

 succeed to and is hereby vested with all the duties, powers, Sards, 8 

 purposes, responsibilities and jurisdiction of the state Jj^ gferred 

 commissioner of horticulture, of the state board of horticul- 

 tural examiners, of the state dairy bureau, of the state veter- 

 inarian, of the stallion registration board, of the state board 

 of viticultural commissioners, of the board of citrus fruit ship- 

 ments, of the cattle protection board and of the several officers 

 of such bodies and offices; and whenever by the provisions of 

 any statute or law now in force or that may hereafter be 

 enacted as a duty or jurisdiction is imposed or authority con- 

 ferred upon any of said bodies, offices or officers, such duty, 

 jurisdiction and authority are hereby imposed upon and trans- 

 ferred to the director of the department of agriculture the 

 same as though the title of the director of the department of 

 agriculture had been specifically set forth and named therein. 

 Said bodies, offices and officers whose duties, powers, purposes offices 

 and responsibilities are so transferred to and vested in the abolished - 

 director of the department of agriculture, are and each of 

 them is hereby abolished and shall have no further legal exist- 



