20 LAWS AGAIXST INJUEIOUS IXSECTS. 



HOBTICULTURAX QlTARANTINE LaW. 



Ax Act for the protection of horticulture, and to prevent the introduction into this 

 State of insects, or diseases, or animals, injurious to fruit or fruit trees, vines, bushes, 

 or vegetables, and to provide for a quarantine for the enforcement of this act. 



[Became a law, under constitutional provision, without governor's approval, March 11, 



1899.] 



The people of the State of California, represented in senate and assemhly. do ^ 

 enact as follows: 



Section 1. Any person, persons, or coriX)ration who shall receive, bring, or 

 cause to be brought into this State any nursery stock, trees, shrubs, plants, vines, 

 cuttings, grafts, scions, buds, or fruit-pits, or fruit or vegetables, shall, within 

 twenty-four hours after the arrival thereof, notify the State horticultural quar- 

 antine officer, or the quarantine guardian of the district or county in which such 

 nursery stock, or fruit or vegetables are received, of their arrival, and hold the 

 same without unnecessarily moving the same or placing such articles where they 

 may be harmful, for the immediate inspection of such State horticultural quar- 

 antine officer or guardian. If there is no quarantine guardian or State horti- 

 cultural quarantine officer in the county where such nursery stock, or fruit, or 

 vegetables are received, it shall then be the duty of such person, persons, or 

 corporation to notify the State board of horticulture, who shall make imme- 

 diate arrangements for their inspection. The State horticultural quarantine 

 officer, the quarantine guardian, or such person or persons as shall be commis- 

 sioned by the State board of horticulture to make such inspection or to repre- 

 sert said board, are hereby authorized and empowered to enter into any ware- 

 house, depot, or upon any dock, wharf, mole, or any other place where such 

 nursery stock, or fruit, or A-egetables. or other described articles are received, 

 for the purpose of making the investigation or examination herein provided for. 



Sec. 2. Each carload, case, box. package, crate, bale, or bundle of trees, shrubs, 

 plants, vines, cuttings, grafts, scions, buds, or fruit-pits, or fruit or vegetables, im- 

 ix)rted or brought into this State, shall have plainly and legibly marked thereon 

 in a conspicuous manner and place the name and address of the shipper, owner, 

 or person forwarding or shipping the same, and also the name of the person, 

 firm, or corporation to whom the same is forwarded or shipped, or his or its 

 responsible agent, also the name of the country. State, or Territory where the 

 contents were grown. 



Sec. 3. When any shipment of trees, shrubs, plants, vines, cuttings, grafts, 

 scions, buds, fruit-pits, or fruit or vegetables, imported or brought into this 

 State, is found infested with injurious insects, or their eggs, larvje. or pupce. 

 or rea.sonable cause to presume that they may be so infested, or infected with 

 tree, plant, or fruit disease or diseases, the entire shipment shall be disinfected 

 at the expense of the owner, owners, or agent. After such disinfection, it shall 

 be detained in quarantine the necessary time to determine the result of such 

 disinfection. If the disinfection has been so performed as to destroy all insects, 

 or their eggs, and so as to eradicate all disease and prevent contagion, and in a 

 manner satisfactory to the State horticultural quarantine officer, the quaran- 

 tine guardian of the district, or the person commissioned by said board, the trees, 

 vines, vegetables, seeds, or other articles shall then be released. [Amended 

 February 19. 1903.] 



Sec. 4. When any shipment of trees, shrubs, plants, vines, cuttings, grafts, 

 scions, buds, fruit-pits, or fruit or vegetables, imported or brought into this 

 State, is found infested with any species of injurious insects, or their eggs. 

 larvae, or pupiB, not existing in the orchards, vineyards, gardens, or farms of 



