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LAWS RELATIVE TO INJURIOUS INSECTS 
AND FOUL BROOD. 
STATE LAWS AGAINST INSECTS 
CALIFORNIA. 
CHAPTER 183.—Laws oF 1897. 
Aw Act to promote the horticultural interests of the State by providing county boards of horticulture, 
and repealing the act entitled ‘‘An act to protect and promote the horticultural interests of the 
State,’ approved March 14, 1881, and certain acts amendatory thereof approved March 19, 1889, and 
March 31, 1891. 
SECTION 1. Whenever a petition is presented to the board of supervisors of any 
county and signed by 25 or more persons, each of whom is a resident freeholder and 
possessor of an orchard, stating that certain or all orchards, or nurseries, or trees 
of any variety are infested with scale insects of any kind injurious to fruit, fruit-trees, 
and vines, codling-moth, or other insects that are destructive to trees, and praying that 
@ commission be appointed by them whose duty it shall be to supervise the destruc- 
tion of said scale insects, as herein provided, the board of supervisors shall, within 
20 days thereafter, appoint a board of horticultural commissioners, consisting of 
three members, who shall be qualified for the duties of horticultural commissioner. 
Upon the petition of 25 resident freeholders and possessors of an orchard, the board 
of supervisors may remove any of said commissioners for cause, after a hearing of 
the petition. . 
Sec. 2. It shall be the duty of the county board of horticultural commissioners in 
each county, whenever it shall deem it necessary, to cause an inspection to be made of 
any orchards, or nursery, or trees, plants, vegetables, vines, or fruits, or any fruit- 
packing house, storeroom, salesroom, or any other place or articles in their jurisdic- 
tion, and if found infested with scale insects, or codling-moth, or other pests inju- 
rious to fruit, plants, vegetables, trees, or vines, or with their eggs or larve, they 
shall notify the owner or owners or person or persons in charge or in possession of 
the said places, or orchards, or nurseries, or trees, or plants, vegetables, vines, or 
fruit, or articles as aforesaid, that the same are infested with said insects or other 
pests, or any of them, or their eggs or larvee, and they shall require such person or 
persons to eradicate or destroy the said insects or other pests or their eggs or larve 
within a certain time to be specified. Said notices may be served upon the person or 
persons, or either of them, owning or having charge or having possession of such 
infested place, or orchard, or nursery, or trees, plants, vegetables, vines, or fruit, or 
articles, as aforesaid, by any commissioner or by any person deputed by the said 
commissioners for that purpose, or they may be served in the same manner as a sum- 
mons in a civil action. Any and all such places, or orchards, or nurseries, or trees, 
plants, shrubs, vegetables, vines, fruits, or articles thus infested are hereby adjudged 
and declared to be a public nuisance; and whenever such nuisance shall exist at any 
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