tATTS OF CAI.IFOR]¥IA. 



AIN" ACT to define and enlarge the duties and powers of tlie board of State viticultural commissioners, 

 and to authorize the appointment of certain officers, and to protect the interests of horticulture and 

 viticulture. 1 



Tlie jyeople of the State of California, represented in senate and assenibly, do enact as 

 foUoivs : 



Section 1. Tlie board of State viticultural commissioners, in addition to the 

 duties and powers provided for by the act entitled ''An act for the promotion of 

 viticultural industries of the State," approved April 15, 1880, shall^ in respect to 

 diseases of grapevines and vine pests, constitute a board of health. It shall, in 

 addition to laboratory work, cause practical experiments to be made to determine or 

 demonstrate the ability of known and new remedies against such diseases and pests. 



Sec. 2. The board shall elect of their own number or appoint from without their 

 own number a competent person to serve as chief executive viticultural officer, who 

 shall ijerform also the duties of viticultural health officer under direction of said 

 board, and subject to removal from such office at any time by the board. 



Sec. 3. The viticultural health officer shall have power, subject to approval of the 

 board, to prevent the spread of vine diseases and vine pests by declaring and enforcing 

 rules and regulations in the nature of quarantine, to govern the owner of, restrain, 

 or prohibit the importation into the State, and the distribution and disposal within 

 the State, of all vines, vine cuttings, debris of vineyards, empty fruit boxes, or other 

 material on or by which the contagion of vine diseases and germs of vine pests may 

 be introduced into the State, or transported from j)lace to place within the State; 

 to declare and enforce regulations approved by the board for the disinfection of vines, 

 vine cuttings, vineyard debris, empty fruit boxes, and other suspected material dan- 

 gerous to vineyards, while in transit, or about to be distributed or transported into 

 or within the State; to classify the vineyards and viticultural regions of the State 

 according to the degree of health or vine disease prevailing therein, and to change 

 the same as circumstances may require to be done, subjecting each class to such vary- 

 ing rules and regulations respecting the introduction or transportation of vines, vine 

 cuttings, and other material liable to spread contagion of disease among vines as 

 may in the opinion of the board become necessary and expedient for the preservation 

 of vineyards. Such rules and regulations shall be circulated in printed form by the 

 board among the vine growers and fruit dealers of the State, shall be published at 

 least thirty days in two daily newspapers of general circulation in the State not 

 of the same city or county, and shall be posted in a conspicuous place at the county 

 seat of each county aftected by their provisions. 



Sec. 4. The viticultural health officer may appoint local resident inspectors in any 

 and all of the viticultural regions of the State, whose duties shall be to report to him 

 coucerning the health of grapevines, the progress of vine diseases and pests, and all 

 violations of the rules and regulations of the board ; to certify to the proper disin- 

 fection of vines, vine cuttings, empty fruit boxes, and other transportable articles 

 required by the board to be disinfected before transportation, or while in transit, or 

 after delivery at any point of destination, the methods of disinfection to be deter- 

 mined and approved by the health officer and the board; to seize upon and destroy 

 all vines, vine cuttings, d6bris of vineyards, empty fruit boxes, and other material 

 likely to spread contagion, which may be found in transit, or delivered after trans- 

 portation, not certified to as required bj' the board : Provided, That the same may be 

 exempt from such destruction if the cost of disinfection by such inspector shall be 

 provided for by the owner or agent in charge thereof, as may be prescribed for such 

 cases of negligence, carelessness, or violation of quarantine rules, and to keep a record 



^ Statutes of California, session of 1881, Sacramento, pp. 51-53. 



