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which meets the requirements specified in section four of this act may be 

 accepted as though bearing a proper certificate of inspection. 



Sec. 6. The State nursery inspector shall determine the season for inspecting 

 nurseries and the forms of certificates to be given, but in no case shall he issue 

 a certificate which shall continue in force after the first day of July next fol- 

 lowing the date of inspection. He or any of his deputies shall at all times have 

 ihe right to enter any public or private grounds in the performance of any duty 

 required by this act. The cost of said inspection shall not exceed $300 annually. 



Sec. 7. All parties violating this act shall be prosecuted by the secretary of the 

 State board of agriculture. 



Sec. 8. This act shall take effect upon its passage. 



Approved March 4, 1903. 



IS^EW JERSEY. 



Chapter 249, Laws, Session of 1903. 



An Act to prevent the introduction into and the spread of injurious insects in New 

 Jersey, to provide a method for compelling their destruction, to create the office of 

 State entomologist, to authorize inspection of nurseries, and to provide for certificates 

 of inspection. 



Be it enacted hy the senate and general assembly of the State of New Jersey: 



1. All gardeners, horticulturists, farmers, nurserymen, and other growers of 

 or dealers in plants of any kind, upon their own or upon leased lands or prem- 

 ises, shall free and keep freed all plants, shrubs, trees, vines, cuttings, scions, 

 buds, stocks, or other plant parts grown, cultivated, or dealt in by them from 

 all injurious insects that might spread from the plants infested to others on the 

 public highways or upon lands adjoining or belonging to others ; all plants, 

 shrubs, trees, or parts of such so infested are hereby declared to be a nuisance, 

 to be abated as herein prescribed, and their maintenance after notice given as 

 hereinafter set out is hereby declared a misdemeanor, punishable as hereinafter 

 provided. 



2. For the purposes of this act the entomologist of the State experiment sta- 

 tion is hereby declared to be the State entomologist, to serve as such at such 

 compensation as may be prescribed by the executive committee of the State 

 board of agriculture, and said committee, which is hereby charged with the 

 execution of this act, may appoint an assistant or deputy to the State entomolo- 

 gist, at such compensation as it may fix ; said executive committee may also 

 appoint such temporary assistants and inspectors as may be needed to carry 

 out the provisions of this act, at such compensation as it may deem reasonable. 



3. The term nursery as used in this act shall include any and all lands, 

 premises, and buildings upon, on, or in which plants, trees, shrubs, or vines of 

 any kind, whether for fruit, shade, or ornament, are grown for sale within the 

 State or for shipment to other States or countries ; the term nursery stock as 

 used in this act shall be held to include any and all plants, shrubs, trees, and 

 vines grown for sale, as well as buds, grafts, stocks, scions, and other parts of 

 plants, shrubs, trees, and vines that may be sold for propagation ; but it shall 

 not apply to herbaceous annuals nor to plants, flowers, vines, or cuttings grown 

 under glass and commonly known as florists' stock ; the term nurseryman as 

 used in this act shall be held to include any person, firm, copartnership, or cor- 

 poration growing plants, trees, shrubs, or vines for sale, or dealing in such 

 stock, whether he or they be owners, lessees, or tenants of or on the premises 

 upon which such stock is grown or offered for sale. 



