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Src. 14. The county fruit inspector shall, in the performance of his duty as such 
inspector, have on any day (except Sundays) free access to orchards, nurseries, gar- 
dens, hop fields, packing houses, fruit stands, and storerooms where fruit may be 
kept, fruit boxes, full or empty, or any other materials or place suspected of being 
infested with insect pests or diseases injurious to the fruit interests of the State. If 
he finds any nursery, orchard, garden, or other place or material infected with 
insects or fungus growth, larve, or spores injurious to the fruit interests, he shall 
forthwith notify in writing the owners, occupants, or persons in possession thereof 
that the same is infected, and direct the manner in which the same shall be disin- 
fected. If the owner, occupant, or person in possession of said orchard, garden, 
storeroom, fruit stand, or other place or infested material shall not within ten days 
disinfect the same in the manner by the county inspector required, or shall not have 
appealed from the decision of the county inspector to the commissioner of horticul- 
ture, if the premises infected be an orchard or nursery of fruit trees, a garden, fruit 
stand, or storeroom, and the person or persons in charge thereof having neglected or 
refused to disinfect the said premises within the time specified in said notice, nor have 
appealed as aforesaid, then the county inspector shall enter on and disinfect any of 
the said premises so neglected, and the costs therecf shall be a legitimate charge 
and lien, with interest until paid, upon the real property of the owner of such 
premises so disinfected; such lien shall be collectible, with costs of suit, in any of 
the courts of the State, as other lawful claims are collectible. If the infected prop- 
erty be transportable materials, the county inspector shall notify in writing the 
person in charge thereof to disinfect the same within twenty-four hours, and pre- 
scribe the manner of disinfection. If the person in charge of said infected materials 
neglect or refuse to disinfect the same as notified, or failed to appeal, then the 
inspector shall destroy such infected materials as fruits, fruit boxes, baskets, wrap- 
pings, and portable fruit stands by burning the same. If an appeal be taken, the 
inspector shall (after the twenty-four hours’ notice) take immediate possession of such 
movable property and safely keep the same until the appeal is decided; if the decision 
of the commissioner be in favor of the appellant, the property shall be returned to him; 
on an adverse decision, the property will be destroyed by the inspector. All appeals 
from the action or demands of the county inspector shall be taken to the said com- 
missioner of horticulture. 
Sec. 15. A certain act approved March 7, 1891, entitled ‘‘ An act to create a State 
board of horticulture and appropriate money therefor,” and an act amendatory 
thereto approved March 11, 1895, and all other laws or parts of laws inconsistent or 
in conflict with the provisions of this act, are hereby repealed. 
Passed the House March 5, 1897. 
Passed the Senate March 11, 1897. 
Approved by the governor March 17, 1897. 
