42 BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY AND PLANT QUARANTINE [Jan.-March 
NOTICE OF ARRIVAL 
Art. 9. Importers of plants or parts of plants are required to notify the Plant 
Protection Service of the arrival of the merchandise at the customhouse where 
delivery is to be made to the interested person or at the railroad station of 
destination, in order that the said service may have it inspected by one of its 
officials, who will carry out a new disinfection, if necessary, before which the 
importer will declare the purpose of the importation (planting or sowing). 
DISPOSAL OF INFESTED PLANTS 
Art. 10. If the agent of the Plant Protection Service finds danger of infection, 
he will adopt one of the following measures: (a) Disinfection within 15 days 
with materials that he indicates, at the expense of the interested person; (6) 
incineration in the presence of the interested person, or of any authority who 
witnesses the operation, within a period of 10 days, without responsibility to 
the State with respect to indemnity; (c) quarantine of suspected importations 
during which investigations of the case are made. 
PLANTS CARRIED BY PASSENGERS NOT EXEMPT FROM CERTIFICATION 
Art. 11. Railroad passengers are prohibited from carrying living plants or 
parts thereof with them unless those products are accompanied by the corres- 
ponding phytosanitary certificate issued by competent authorities. The presen- 
tation of this certificate should be required both by the agents of the Plant 
Protection Service and railroad conductors. 
The lack of the certificate will result in the confiscation of the plants carried, 
without right to indemnity. 
Art. 12. It is the function of the Plant Protection Service to specify "Pests 
of Agriculture" in order to prevent the importation of plants or parts thereof 
that contain them. 
B. E. P. Q. 490. 
PLANT-QUARANTINE EXPORT RESTRICTIONS, KINGDOM OF ALBANIA 
February 1, 1939. 
This presentation of the plant-quarantine import restrictions of the Kingdom 
of Albania is offered for the information of nurserymen, plant-quarantine 
officials, and others interested in the exportation of plants and plant products 
to that country. 
It was prepared by Harry B. Shaw, in charge of foreign service information, 
Division of Foreign Plant Quarantines, from a translation made by the Ameri- 
can Legation, Tirana, Albania, of the law of April 23, 1929. 
The information contained in this circular is believed to be correct and com- 
plete up to the time of its preparation, but it is not intended to be used inde- 
pendently of, nor as a substitute for, the original text, and it is not to be 
interpreted as legally authoritative. The law of April 23, 1929, should be 
consulted for the exact text. 
Lee A. Strong, 
Chief, Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine. 
General Regulations 
[Law of April 23, 1929] 
IMPORTATION OF INFECTED PLANTS AND PLANT PRODUCTS PROHIBITED 
Article 1. The importation is prohibited of any kind of plants or parts 
thereof, such as seeds, fruits, etc., that may be used for propagation if infected 
by any parasitic disease or insect pest. 
INSPECTION CERTIFICATE REQUIRED 
Art. 2. Any one who desires to import plants or parts thereof for propagation 
or cultivation is required first to present to the Bureau of Agriculture a certif- 
