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said treatment or may, in his discretion, destroy such infected 

 property. No damage shall be awarded to the owner for the loss 

 of any infected apiary, bees, hives, apiary appliance, or bee 

 product destroyed under the provisions of this section or any 

 regulation or order made in pursuance thereof. 



Persons keeping bees shall keep them in hives of such construc- 

 tion that the frames may be easily removed for examination of the 

 brood for the purpose of determining whether disease exists in the 

 brood. 



No person shall expose in any place to which bees have access 

 any bee product, hive or other apiary appliance in such manner 

 that contagious or infectious diseases of bees may be disseminated. 



§ 175. Transportation of bees and bee material. No person 

 shall transport any colony of bees, used comb, used beekeeping 

 material, or live bees on comb, which is infected with or has been 

 exposed to bee disease, unless it be within the beekeeper's own 

 premises, or unless it be by permit from the commissioner. 



Every shipment of a colony of bees, used comb, used beekeeping 

 equipment, or live bees on comb into this state from another state 

 or foreign country, shall be accompanied by a certificate of free- 

 dom of disease from an official of such state or foreign country 

 recognized by the commissioner, and shall be held in quarantine at 

 destination until inspected and released by the commissioner. 

 Every transportation company upon the receipt of such shipment 

 shall immediately notify the commissioner thereof, giving the name 

 and address of the consignor and consignee. 



§ 175-a. Assessors shall list and report owners of bees : Special 

 provision for Nassau county. Assessors shall file with their annual 

 assessment-roll a list of the names and addresses of all owners of 

 bees within their respective districts. The provisions of this sec- 

 tion shall not apply to the county of Nassau. The police depart- 

 ment of such county shall annually prepare a list of the names 

 and addresses of all the owners of bees in each town in such county 

 including villages and file the same on or before July first in the 

 office of the town clerk of such town. 



