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contagious diseases among fruit trees, vegetables, plants, bees, and other products 
grown for profit in the State of Florida, and for the prevention, treatment, cure, 
or extirpation of insect pests, fungous diseases, and other maladies of fruit trees, 
vegetables, bees, and other products. Said rules shall thereafter be modified at any 
annual meeting of the commission by a majority thereof. 
Sec. 5. When, at its first session or at any annual session thereafter, the commis- 
sion shall have adopted rules and regulations, or shall have modified one previously 
adopted, as above provided for, it shall be the duty of the chairman to have a snfli- 
cient number of copies of this act, with such schedule annexed, printed and distrib- 
uted by mail in the following manner: One copy to each daily and weekly news- 
paper published within the State; and the schedule so adopted and modified shall 
be published in the same manner as the public statutes are published. 
Sec. 6. Whenever a petition is presented to the State commissioner of horticulture 
and agriculture signed by fifteen or more persons, who shall be resident property 
owners, fruit or vegetable growers, or owners of bees, requesting an inspection of 
any trees, plants, or apiary, the chief inspector, or an assistant inspector designated 
by the chief inspector, shall proceed to make such examination with the least possi- 
bly delay, and shall enforce the rules of the State commission applicable to such 
case or cases. He shall give the owner, lessee, or occupier of the property on which 
such contagious disease or pest occurs, written instructions to use such means as may 
be necessary to carry out the instructions in the schedule prepared by said commission 
for the control or extermination of such disease, fungus, or insect pest. If such 
owner, agent, or lessee of property on which such contagious disease, fungus, or insect 
pest is found shall fail to obey the instructions of said expert within the time desig- 
nated in the written instructions, it shall be the duty of said inspector to employ 
such service and use such means as may be neccssary to control or exterminate such 
contagious disease, fungus, or insect pest. 
Sec. 7. Each inspecting officer shall receive for his services $4 per diem for each 
day spent in the discharge of his official duties and necessary traveling expenses. 
Such inspecting officer shall make an itemized statement, duly verified by oath or 
affirmation, of the expense in inspecting or treating of such diseases, trees, plants, 
or apiary, and shall certify the expenses of the same to the State commissioner of 
horticulture and agriculture. The State treasurer shall pay such expenses out of 
the treasury from moneys not otherwise appropriated, upon vouchers issued by the 
secretary of the commission, approved by the chairman. Any owner, agent, or 
lessee on whose property shall be found any contagious disease, fungus, or insect 
pest designated in the schedule prepared by the said commissioners who shall fail to 
carry out the regulations of said commission shall be deemed guilty of a misde- 
meanor, and upon conviction by any court of the State having jurisdiction shall be 
fined not more than $——, or be imprisoned for not more than days at the 
discretion of the court. 
Sec. 8. It shall be the duty of every person, on their first knowledge of the exist- 
ence on any tree, shrub, or plant or in any apiary of any disease, fungus, or insect 
pest designated in schedule of the commission to forthwith give notice of the exist- 
ence of the same to the State commission. Any resident owner, agent of nonresi- 
dent owner, or lessee of any tree, shrub, plant, or apiary on or in which such disease 
occurs who shall fail for the space of ten days from the first knowledge of the afore- 
said disease or pest to report tle same to the State commission shall be deemed 
guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine 
not to exceed $ or imprisonment not to exceed days, at the discretion of the 
court. 
Src. 9. The importation of noxious diseases and insect pests is hereby declared 
amisdemeanor. Any person or persons found guilty in any county or other court in 
the State, which court shall have jurisdiction in such ¢ases, of importing, knowingly 
or otherwise, without having taken the proper precautions, into the State of Florida 
any injurious disease, fungus or insect pest, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and 
