198 LAWS AGAINST FOtTL BBOOD. 



Sec. 5. The fact that the season when young colonies of bees will have the 

 mother colonies is near at hand, and that there is no existing law properly 

 governing colonies affected with foul brood creates an emergency, and an impera- 

 tive public necessity requiring the suspension of the constitutional rule requir- 

 ing bills to be read on three several days, and the same is so suspended, and 

 this act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage; and it is 

 so enacted. 



Became a law April 21, 1903. 



UTAH. 



Law of Utah for the Protection and Encouragement of the Bee Industry. 



Section 1. The board of county commissioners of the several counties shall, 

 when petitioned by a majority of the bee keepers thereof, appoint one or more 

 qualified persons inspectors of bees for their respective counties. 



Sec. 2. Such inspectors shall hold their office for two years and until their 

 successors are appointed and qualified. They shall qualify by taking and sub- 

 scribing their official oath and by giving bonds to be approved by their respec- 

 tive boards of county commissioners, which oath and bonds shall be filed with 

 the county clerk. 



Sec 3. Inspectors shall be paid out of the county treasury for services actu- 

 ally rendered at such rate per day as the board of county commissioners may 

 fix. The assessor of each county is hereby required to assess each colony of 

 bees in his county in the same manner as other assessments are made. All 

 taxes shall be assessed and collected thereon in the manner provided by law for 

 the collection and payment of county taxes. 



Sec 4. All hives of bees in each county shall be carefully inspected at least 

 once each year by a county or district inspector, where such inspector has been 

 appointed, and, at any time upon complaint that disease exists among bees of 

 any person, the inspector to whom complaint is made shall immediately inspect 

 the bees said to be infected. The inspector shall have authority to take charge 

 and control of diseased bees and their hives, and the tools and implements used 

 in connection therewith for treatment, or destroy such bees, broods, or hives 

 and their contents, or implements, as maj^ be infected : Provided, That any 

 owner questions a decision of the inspector he may appeal to three arbitrators 

 selected from among the bee keepers of the county, one of whom shall be chosen 

 by the owner, the second by the inspector, and the third so chosen, whose de- 

 cision, concurred in by at least two of their number, shall be conclusive as to 

 the condition of the bees at the time of such examination. 



Sec 5. Any person who shall hinder or obstruct, or attempt to hinder or ob- 

 struct, a duly appointed inspector from the performance of any duty required 

 by this title, shall, on conviction thereof before a justice of peace having juris- 

 diction, be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be fined for the first 

 offense not less than five nor more than twenty-five dollars, and for any addi- 

 tional offenses any sum not exceeding fifty dollars. 



Approved March 11th, 1897. To take effect January 1, 1898. 



WASHINGTON. 



Be it enacted hy the legislature of the State of Washington: 

 Section 1. Whenever a petition is presented to the board of county commis- 

 sioners of any county signed by ten or more persons, each of whom is a property 



