STATE AND TERRITORIAL LAWS RELATIVE TO FOUL BROOD. 



CAIilFORXIA. 



Chapter XXIV. 



An Act to promote the apicultural interests of the State of California by providing 

 county inspectors of apiaries, and defining their duties, and providing for their com- 

 pensation, and repealing the act entitled "An act to authorize the hoard of super- 

 visors of the several counties of this State to appoint inspectors of apiaries, and pro- 

 vide for. their compensation, and defining their duties, and for the further protection 

 of bee culture," approved March 13, 1883. 



The people of ihe State of California, represented in senate and assembly, do 

 enact as folloics: 



Section 1. Whenever a petition is presented to the board of supervisors of 

 any county, signed by ten or more persons, each of \yhom is a property holder 

 resident of the county, and possessor of an apiary or place where bees are kept, 

 stating that certain or all apiaries v^ithin the county are infected with the 

 disease known as " foul brood," or any other disease which is infectious or 

 contagious in its nature, and injurious to the bees, their eggs or larvae, and pray- 

 ing that an inspector be appointed by them, whose duty it shall be to supervise 

 the treatment of said bees and apiaries as herein provided, the board of super- 

 visors shall, within twenty (20) days thereafter, appoint a suitable person, who 

 shall be a skilled bee keeper, inspector of apiaries. Upon petition of ten per- 

 sons, each of whom is a resident property holder and possessor of an apiary, the 

 board of supervisors may remove said inspector for cause, after a hearing of 

 the petition. 



Sec. 2. It shall be the duty of the inspector in each county to cause an inspec- 

 tion to be made, when he deems it necessary, of any or every apiary, or other 

 place within his jurisdiction in which bees are kept, and if found infected with 

 foul brood, or any other infectious or contagious disease injurious to the bees, 

 or their eggs, or larvre, he shall notify the owner or owners, person or persons 

 in charge, or in possession of said apiaries or places where bees are kept, that 

 the same are infected with foul brood, or any other disease infectious or con- 

 tagious in its nature, and injurious to bees, their eggs or larvfe, and he shall 

 require such person or persons to eradicate and remove such disease or cause 

 of contagion within a certain time to be specified. Said notice may be served 

 upon the person or persons, or either of them, owning or having charge, or 

 having possession of such infected apiaries, or places where bees are kept, by 

 any inspector, or by any person deputized by the said inspector for that pur- 

 pose, or they may be served in the same manner as a summons in a civil action. 

 Any and all such apiaries, or places where bees are kept, found infected with 

 foul brood, or any other infectious or contagious disease are hereby adjudged 

 and declared to be a public nuisance ; and whenever any such nuisance shall 

 exist at any place within his jurisdiction, or on the property of any nonresident, 

 or on any property the owner or owners of which cannot be found by th(> 

 inspector, after diligent search, within the county, or upon the property of any 



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