UTAH. 149 



Sec. 8. The State treasurer is hereby authorized to receive gifts, donations, 

 or bequests of money or property for the promotion of the horticultural interests 

 of Utah and to disburse the same upon the warrants of the State auditor, 

 which said warrants shall be drawn only upon order of the majority of said 

 board of horticultural commissioners and for the purpose named in this title. 



Sec 9. The State board of horticulture is hereby vested with all necessary 

 authority to enforce quarantine against any infested fields, lots, orchards, 

 nurseries, trees, plants, shrubs, vines, buds or scions, fruits, or any place or 

 articles within the State when the same may be liable to spread contagious 

 diseases injurious to fruit or trees, or fruit crops of anj^ kind, and to provide 

 necessary rules and regulations to govern the same. 



Sec. 10. For the purpose of preventing the introduction into the State or 

 spread of contagious diseases, insect pests, or fungus growth among fruit, shade, 

 and ornamental trees, and for the prevention, treatment, cure, and extirpation 

 of fruit and tree pests and diseases of fruit, and fruit, shade, and ornamental 

 trees, and for the disinfection of grafts, scions, orchard debris, fruit boxes, and 

 packages, and other material or transportable articles harbouring or containing 

 infectious diseases or insect pests dangerous to orchards, fruit, or trees of any 

 kind, said board shall make regulations for the quarantining and disinfection 

 thereof, which said regulations shall be circulated by the board in printed form 

 among the fruit growers, fruit dealers, and nurserymen of the State, by publish- 

 ing the same at least four successive times in some newspaper having a general 

 circulation in the State, and by posting copies thereof in three conspicuous 

 places in each county, one of which shall be at the county court-house. Such 

 regulations, when so circulated and promulgated, shall be held to impart notice 

 of their contents to all persons within the State and shall be binding upon them. 

 A wilful violation or violation by neglect of any quarantine or other regulation 

 of said board necessary to prevent the spread and introduction into the State of 

 fruit or tree diseases or insect pests, or the shipment, sale, or distribution of any 

 article so infected as to be dangerous to the fruit-growing interests of the State, 

 or the spread of dangerous diseases among trees or orchards, shall be deemed a 

 misdemeanor. 



Sec. 11. For the purpose of disseminating knowledge concerning contagious 

 diseases or injurious pests affecting trees, plants, vines, or fruit, and the reme- 

 dies, preventives, and disinfectants applicable thereto, the board shall from 

 time to time, as it may deem necessary, have bulletins printed containing such 

 information, remedies, preventatives, and disinfectants as it may approve, to- 

 gether with the rules and regulations formulated by it in accordance with sec- 

 tion 10 of this act ; which bulletins shall be circulated among the fruit growers, 

 fruit dealers, shippers, transportation companies of horticultural products and 

 their agents within the State. 



Sec. 12. Within 30 days after this law goes into effect, the board of county 

 commissioners of the several counties shall appoint one horticultural inspector 

 and as many deputies as deemed necessary to carry out the provisions of this 

 act; said inspectors and their deputies shall be competent, experienced, and 

 practical horticulturists. Such inspectors shall hold office for a term of two 

 years, and until their successors are appointed and qualified, unless sooner re- 

 moved for cause. They shall qualify by taking and subscribing the constitu- 

 tional oath, which shall be filed with the county clerk ; said inspectors shall be 

 paid out of the county treasury for the time and services actually rendered, at 

 such rate per day as the board of county commissioners shall fix, not to exceed 

 $3 per day for inspectors, and $2 for deputies, with reasonable transportation 

 expenses. The county inspector or inspectors shall carry out the provisions of 



