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ceased, they may suspend such quarantine regulations, and shall immediately report 

 the fact to the State board, who may approve <>r disapprove such action. 



Sec. 7. It shall be the duty of the county board of horticultural commissioner! in 

 each county, whenever they shall deem accessary, to cause an inspection to be 

 made of any orchard, nursery, or trees, or anj fruit-packing house, storeroom, or 

 salesroom, or any other place within their jurisdiction, and if found infested with 

 pests or diseases injurious to fruits and fruit trees, vines, ami plants, they shall 

 notify the owner or owners, person or persons in charge or possession of the 

 or place as aforesaid, that the same or any of rheni are infected with insects, or their 

 eggs, or larva-, and they shall require such person or persons to disinfect the same 

 within a certain time, to he specified in said notit e. It" within such time Buch disin- 

 fection has not been accomplished, the said person or persons -hall be required to 

 make application of such treatment for the purpose of destroying them as the said 

 commissioners shall prescribe. Said notices may he served upon the pi rson or per- 

 sons owning or having charge of such infected trees or places or articles aforesaid, 

 by any commissioner, or by any one deputized by them, or they may be served the 

 same as summons in a civil action. If the owner or owner-, person <»r persons in 

 charge or possession of orchard or nursery, trees or places, or articles infested with 

 said insect-, or any of them, their larva- or eggs, after having been notified as above 

 by said board to destroy the same or make application of treatment as directed, 

 shall fail, neglect, or refuse so to do. he or they shall be guilty of maintaining a 

 public nuisance, and shall be punished by a tine, finable in a sum not less than five 

 (5) nor more than one hundred (100) dollars; and any stub orchard-, nurseries, 

 trees, or places or articles thus infected after such conviction shall be adjudged and 

 tin same is hereby declared a public nuisance, and may be proceeded again-" 

 such. 



If defendant be found guilty, the court in its judgment shall order the said county 

 board of horticultural commissioners to abate the same, and the expense thus 

 accrued shall be taxed up as costs against the defendant. 



The district and county courts shall have jurisdiction in such < 



Sec. 8. It shall be the duty of every owner, possessor, or occupier of an orchard, 

 nursery, or land where fruit trees are grown within this State, or any importer ot 

 trees, shrubs or vines, to disinfect, as may he directed by the county boards of horti- 

 culture all fruit trees grown on such lands infested with any insect or insects or the 

 germs thereof, or infected with any contagious disease known to he injurious to fruit 

 or fruit tree.-, shrubs, <>r vines before the removal of the same from said premises for 

 sale, gift, or distribution or transportation. 



Sec. 9. In counties not having a county board of horticultural commissioners, the 

 State board shall possess the same powers and perform the same duties as devolve 

 upon the county board. 



Sec. 10. The State board shall have power to authorize the holding of State horti- 

 cultural exhibitions (etc.). 



Sec. 15. In the opinion of the general assembly an emergency exists; therefore 



this law shall be in force and effect from and after its passage. 

 Approved, April .",, 1893. 



Regulations established by the Colorado state Board of Horticulture for tin inspei tioo and disinfec. 

 tion of grafts, scions, orchard debris, empty fruit itoxes ami packages andotber suspected material 

 or transportable articles, dangerous to orchards, fruit . or frail trees, in compliance n itli section 4 of 

 an enactment in the general assembly of the State of Colorado, entitled An act to create State and 

 county boards of horticulture; define their duties am! compensation; to protect and promote the 

 horticultural interests of the State." 



Article 1. It shall he the duty of e^ ery owner, possessor, or occupier of an orchard, 

 nursery, or land where fruit trees arc grown within this State, to disinfect all fruit 

 lies grown on such lands infested with any insect or insects, or the germs th< 

 or infected with any contagious disease known to he injurious to fruit or trim 



