STATE AND TERRITORIAL LAWS RELATIVE TO FOUL BROOD. | 
CALIFORNIA. 
CHAPTER XXIV. 
AN Act to promote the apicultural interests of the State of California by providing 
county inspectors of apiaries, and defining their duties, and providing for their com- 
pensation, and repealing the act entitled “An act to authorize the board of super- 
visors of the several counties of this State to appoint inspectors of apiaries, and pro- 
vide for their compensation, and defining their duties, and for the further protection 
of bee culture,” approved March 13, 1883. 
The people of the State of California, represented in senate and assembly, do 
enact as follows: 
SEcTION 1. Whenever a petition is presented to the board of supervisors of 
any county, signed by ten or more persons, each of whom is a property holder 
resident of the county, and possessor of an apiary or place where bees are kept, 
stating that certain or all apiaries within the county are infected with the 
disease known as “foul brood,’ or any other disease which is infectious or 
contagious in its nature, and injurious to the bees, their eggs or larvee, and pray- 
ing that an inspector be appointed by them, whose duty it shall be to supervise 
the treatment of said bees and apiaries as herein provided. the board of super- 
visors shall, within twenty (20) days thereafter, appoint a suitable person, who 
shall be a skilled bee keeper, inspector of apiaries. Upon petition of ten per- 
sons, each of whom is a resident property holder and possessor of an apiary, the 
board of supervisors may remove said inspector for cause, after a hearing of 
the petition. 
Sec. 2. It shall be the duty of the inspector in each county to cause an inspec- 
tion to be made, when he deems it necessary, of any or every apiary, or other 
place within his jurisdiction in which bees are kept, and if found infected with 
foul brood, or any other infectious or contagious disease injurious to the bees, 
or their eggs, or larve, he shall notify the owner or owners, person or persons 
in charge, or in possession of said apiaries or places where bees are kept, that 
the same are infected with foul brood, or any other disease infectious or con- 
tagious in its nature, and injurious to bees, their eggs or larvee, and he shall 
require such person or persons to eradicate and remove such disease or cause 
of contagion within a certain time to be specified. Said notice may be served 
upon the person or persons, or either of them, owning or having charge, or 
having possession of such infected apiaries, or places where bees are kept, by 
any inspector, or by any person deputized by the said inspector for that pur- 
pose, or they may be served in the same manner as a summons in a Civil action. 
Any and all such apiaries, or places where bees are kept, found infected with 
foul brood, or any other infectious or contagious disease are hereby adjudged 
and declared to be a public nuisance; and whenever any such nuisance shall 
exist at any place within his jurisdiction, or on the property of any nonresident, 
or on any property-the owner or owners of which cannot be found by the 
inspector, after diligent search, within the county, or upon the property of any 
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