110 LAWS AGAINST INJURIOUS INSECTS. 
OHIO. 
SEcTION 1. The Ohio State board of agriculture is hereby empowered and 
directed to make such regulations as may be deemed necessary for the control of 
dangerously injurious insect pests and plant diseases, and for the prevention of 
the spread of San Jose scale, peach yellows, black knot, and any other danger- 
ously injurious insect pests or plant diseases, which are hereby declared a public 
nuisance, and are liable to be transmitted on nursery stock. Said board is hereby 
authorized to establish a division of nursery and orchard inspection in the Ohio de- 
partment of agriculture, and to-appoint a competent entomologist as the chief 
inspector of said division, and the necessary assistants, who shall, under the 
direction of the board have charge of the inspection of nurseries and orchards, 
as hereinafter provided; he may investigate, or cause to be investigated, out- 
breaks of dangerously injurious insect pests or plant diseases, and recommend 
suitable measures to be taken for their eradication or control; he is empowered 
to devise and test practical remedies for their suppression, and publish the 
results of these investigations and such other information as may be deemed 
necessary. 
Sec. 2. Every nurseryman or other person in the State of Ohio who is engaged 
in growing trees, shrubs, plants, and vines for sale, except such as are herein- 
after specified, shall on or before the first day of July of each year place on file 
in the office of the Ohio department of agriculture an application for the inspeec- 
tion of his nursery stock and premises. Failure to file such application, or the 
disposal of uninspected stock, either by sale or gift, shall render the. owner 
liable to the penalty provided for in section 8 of this act. The chief inspector 
shall examine, or cause to be examined, before September 15th of each year, or 
as often as may be deemed necessary by said board, the nurseries and premises 
of all parties whose applications for inspection have been filed. If upon such 
examination the nursery stock and premises appear to be free from San Jose 
scale, peach yellows, black knot, and other dangerously injurious insect pests 
or plant diseases, a certificate of inspection shall be given to the owner or lessee 
stating the facts, and said certificate shall be issued before September 15th and 
shall be valid for one year from that date unless sooner revoked for cause. If 
any dangerously injurious insect pests or plant diseases are found on nursery 
stock or premises, the chief inspector shall order and enforce such treatment as 
shall be deemed sufficient before granting a certificate of inspection. Upon the 
written request of the owner or lessee of any hursery premises that has been 
regularly inspected in accordance with the provisions of this section, the said 
board, through the chief inspector, may issue a certificate of fumigation, pro- 
vided that all the requirements of the said board have been complied with, and 
that the said fumigation shall be in accordance with the directions and under 
the supervision of an authorized assistant inspector appointed by said board. 
The provisions of this act shall not apply to greenhouse plants and cuttings 
thereof, bulbs, flowers, and vegetable plants. 
Sec. 3. Every agent, dealer or any other person, not engaged in growing 
trees, shrubs, plants, or vines for sale, who sells or delivers such stock, shall 
before delivering the same annually place on file in the cffice of the Ohio depart- 
ment of agriculture a statement made under oath, before an officer qualified to 
administer oaths in the locality where he may reside, or if a nonresident of the 
State in the locality where the said stock is sold or delivered, that the said stock 
has been duly inspected and was received by him accompanied with a valid 
official certificate of inspection or fumigation. Said statement shall also desig- 
nate the name of the grower or growers from which such stock was obtained 
and the name of the owner or owners of the certificate or certificates under 
