76 LAWS AGAINST INJURIOUS INSECTS. 



MIKIS^ESOTA. 



An Act to prevent the introduction and spread of injurious insects and dangerous plant 



diseases in tlie State of Minnesota. , 



Be it enacted l)ij the legislature of the State of Minnesota: 



Section 1. The entomologist of the State experiment station is hereby con- 

 stituted the State entomologist and. charged with the execution of this act. He 

 may appoint such qualified assistants as may be necessary, fix a reasonable com- 

 pensation for their labor, and pay the same, and their acts shall have the same 

 validity as his own. He shall, by himself or his assistants, between the first 

 day of Maj^ and the fifteenth day of September in each year, when requested by 

 the owner or agent, or when he has reasonable ground to believe that any inju- 

 rious insect pests or dangerous and contagious plant disease exist, carefully 

 examine any nursery, fruit farm, or other place where trees or plants are grown 

 for sale, and if found apparently free from any injurious insect pests or danger- 

 ous or contagious plant diseases, he shall issue his certificate stating the facts 

 (good for one year unless revoked), and shall collect therefor a fee of five dol- 

 lars ($5.00) per day and expenses. 



Sec. 2. The State entomologist shall have authority, when requested by the 

 owner or agent or when he has reasonable grounds to believe any injurious 

 insect pests or dangerous and contagious plant diseases exist, to enter upon any 

 of the grounds mentioned in section 1 hereof, public or private, for the purpose 

 of inspection, and, if he finds any nursery, orchard, garden, or other place in- 

 fested by anj^ injurious insect pests or dangerous and contagious plant diseases, 

 he may, by himself or his assistants, enter upon such premises and establish 

 quarantine regulations. 



If, in his judgment, any insect pests or dangerous and contagious plant dis- 

 eases may be eradicated by treatment, he may, in writing, order such treatment 

 and prescribe its kind and character. In case any trees, shrubs, or plants are 

 found so infested that it would be impracticable to treat them he may order 

 them burned. A failure for 10 dnjs after the delivery of such order to the 

 owner or persons in charge to treat or destroy such infected trees or plants a? 

 ordered, shall authorize the entomologist to perform this work by himself or his 

 assistants and to ascertain the cost thereof. He shall certify the amount of such 

 cost to the owner or person in charge of the premises, and if the same is not 

 paid to him within 60 days thereafter he shall certify the amount thereof to 

 the county attorney, w^hose duty it shall be to proceed forthwith to collect the 

 same of him in a civil suit and return the amount so recovered over to the State 

 auditor to reimburse the State for the money expended. 



Sec 3. When nursery stock is shipped into the State accompanied by a certi- 

 ficate of inspection by a State entomologist from the State from which the ship- 

 ment has been made, stating that the stock has been inspected and found to be 

 free from any injurious insect pests or dangerous raid contagious plant diseases, 

 it shall be held prima facie evidence of the facts therein stated, but the State 

 entomologist, by himself or his assistants, when he or they have reason to be- 

 lieve that any such stock is nevertheless infested by any injurious insect pests 

 or dangerous or contagious plant diseases shall be authorized to inspect the 

 same and submit it to like treatment as that provided for in section 2 hereof, 

 and if, by reason of the failure for 48 hours of the owners of such stock to com- 

 ply with the treatment prescribed or to destroy the stock, if so ordered, the 

 State entomologist or his assistants are required to perform the work them- 

 selves, and it shall be the duty of the entomologist to certify the amount of the 

 cost thereof to the owner or the person in charge of such stock so treated or 



