168 LAWS AGAINST INJURIOUS INSECTS. 
WEST VIRGINIA. 
CHAPTER 33, AcTs OF 1901. 
An Act to prevent the introduction and spread of the San Jose scale and other danger- 
ous insects and dangerously contagious diseases affecting trees, shrubs, vines, plants, 
and fruits. 
Be it enacted. by the legislature of West Virginia: 
1. That the director of the West Virginia agricultural experiment station, im- 
mediately on the taking effect of this act, shall appoint a competent person or 
persons who shall, under the direction of the said director, perform the duties 
hereinafter provided. 
SEc. 2 (as amended by chapter 49, Laws of 1903). It shall be the duty of the 
director, either in person or through his assistants, to seek out and devise 
means of suppressing and eradicating throughout the State the San Jose scale 
and other dangerous insects, and tree, shrub, vine, or plant diseases. Black 
knot and peach yellows are hereby declared to be dangerous within the meaning 
of this act, and trees, shrubs, vines, or plants affected with either of these dis- 
eases shall be subject to its provisions. The mention of San Jose scale, peach 
yellows, and black knot, in this section, shall not be held to exclude other 
insects or diseases, which may be found to be dangerous, from the provisions of 
this act. Said director in person, or through his assistants, shall examine once 
in each year, not later than September fifteenth, all nurseries in the State of 
West Virginia, as to whether they are infested with San Jose scale or other 
dangerous insects, or infected with dangerous contagious tree, vine, shrub, or 
plant diseases; and if upon inspection such nurseries appear to be free from 
such insects or diseases, the director shall give each owner of such nursery or 
nurseries a certificate to the facts. Nurserymen must furnish transportation 
to and from railway station and facilities for reaching their growing stock to 
such person or assistant selected by the director to make said inspection. This 
certificate shall be void after September fifteenth of the year following. A 
duplicate of each certificate, together with a statement of amount received there- 
for, shall be filed by said person or assistant with said director within ten 
days of its issue, and neglect to file such duplicate of certificate and statement 
shall be treated as a misdemeanor. If any dangerously injurious insects or 
infectious diseases are found on the premises of any nursery or nursery stock 
the director may order and enforce such treatment of said nursery stock as he 
may deem sufficient, in addition to a thorough inspection, before granting a cer- 
tificate. 
Whenever a nurseryman, or any person shall ship or deliver within this State, 
except for scientific purposes, trees, shrubs, plants, or other nursery stock, he 
shall place upon each carload, box, bale, or package a copy of a certificate, the 
original of which is signed by a State or Government inspector, stating that such 
stock has been inspected and has been found apparently free from dangerous 
insects and dangerously contagious tree, shrub, vine, and plant diseases. The 
illegal use of said certificates by changing, defacing, or placing it on unin- 
spected stock, or using the same after date of expiration or revocation, shall 
render the owner or shipper liable to the penalty prescribed for a violation of 
this act. No person growing for sale any trees, shrubs, vines, or plants, shall 
deliver the same without applying to the director for the certificate provided 
for in this act. 
No person growing for sale, or having in his possession with intent to sell, 
any trees, shrubs, vines, or plants, shall deliver the same before having thor- 
