LEGISLATION AGAINST INU'RIOCS INSECTS. 



CALIFORNIA. 

 Chapter LXXV. 



An act To protect and promote the horticultural interests of the State. 



The people of the State of California, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as 

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

 county, and signed by rive or more persons who are resident freeholders and po- 

 ors of an orchard, or both, stating that certain or all orchards, or nurseries, or trees 

 of any variety, are infected with scale bug, codlin moth, or other insects that are 

 destructive to trees, and praying that a commission be appointed by them whose 

 duty it shall be to supervise their destruction, as hereinafter provided, the board of 

 supervisors shall, within twenty days thereafter, select three commissioners for the 

 county, to be known as the county board of horticultural commissioners. The board 

 of supervisors may fill any vacancy that may occur in said commission, by death, 

 resignation, or otherwise, and appoint one commissioner each year, one month or 

 thereabouts previous to the expiration of the term of office of any member of said 

 commission. The said commissioners shall serve for a period of three years from the 

 date of their appointment, except the commissioners first appointed, one of w horn shall 

 serve for one year, one of whom shall serve for two years, and one of whom shall 

 serve for three years from the date of appointment. The commissioners first appointed 

 shall themselves decide, by lot or otherwise, who shall serve one year, who two 

 years, and who three years, and shall notify the board of supervisors of the result 

 of their choice. 



Sec. 2. It shall be the duty of the county board of horticultural commissioners in 

 each county, whenever they shall be informed by complaint of any person residing 

 in such county, that an orchard, or nursery, or trees, or any fruit-packing house. 

 storeroom, sale room, or any other place in their jurisdiction, is infested with 

 bug, codlin moth, red spider, or other noxious insect liable to spread contagion 

 dangerous to the trees or fruit of complainant, or their eggs or Larvae, in jurio 

 the fruit or fruit trees, they shall cause an inspection to be made of the said premise s, 

 and. if found infected, they shall notify the owner or owners, or the person or persons 

 in charge or possession of the said trees, or places, as aforesaid, that the same are 

 infected with said insects, or any of them, or their eggs or larva', and shall require 

 such person or persons to disinfect the same within a certain time to be specified. 

 It. within such specified time, such disinfection has nor been accomplished, the said 

 person or persons shall be required to make application of such treatment for the 

 pnrpose of destroying them as said commissioners shall prescribe. Said notices may 

 be served upon the person or persons owning or having charge or possess on of Buch 

 infested trees, or places, or articles, as aforesaid, bj any commissioner, or by any 

 person deputed by the said commissioners for that purpose, 01 they may be Berved 

 the same way as a summons in a civil action, [f the owner or owners, or the person 

 or persons in charge or possession of any orchard, ox nursery, or trees, oi pli 

 articles infested with said insects, or an\ of them, or their larva' or eggs after 

 having been notified as above to make Application of treatment as directed, shall 



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