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B. E. P. Q.-Q. 48 
Revision of Regulations 3, 5, and 6. and 
reprinting of regulations 7 and 9. 
Effective April 5, 1940 
United States Department of Agriculture 
BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY AND PLANT QUARANTINE 
MODIFICATIONS OF JAPANESE BEETLE QUARANTINE 
REGULATIONS 
INTRODUCTORY NOTE 
Extensions of the regulated areas in Maryland, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, 
and West Virginia are made in the following revision of regulation 3. In Mary- 
land, the entire counties of Caroline, Harford, and Talbot are brought under 
regulation, and minor extensions have been made in the counties of Baltimore, 
Carroll, Frederick, Washington, and Wicomico. In New York, but one community 
is added, Erwin Township in Steuben County. The newly added Ohio area in- 
cludes the entire counties of Belmont, Guernsey, Medina, Wayne, and part of 
Lake County. The area in Pennsylvania has been extended to all of Clarion 
County and parts of Venango and Erie Counties, placing Corry and Erie under 
regulation as isolated points. West Virginia extensions include Brooke County, 
the whole of Jefferson County, area in Wood County, and the city of Charleston, 
the latter as an isolated point. Wheeling is brought within the main regulated 
area. 
Under regulation 5, the special area from which the movement of fruits and 
vegetables by motortruck or refrigerator car is regulated has been extended to 
New York City and surrounding area, including one town in Connecticut, as 
well as additional area in Maryland, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. 
The season during which fruits and vegetables are required to be certified 
when shipped from the regulated area remains the same as heretofore, from June 
15 to October 15, except that in the case of a small area in Virginia, designated 
in subsection (A) of regulation 5, certification is required beginning June 1. 
Certificate requirements are lifted as to portions of plants without roots and 
free from soil, such as branches, twigs, and Christmas trees, and also as 
to soil-free, dried roots incapable of propagation and appropriately labeled. The 
certification requirements remain in effect as to cut flowers shipped from June 
15 to October 15, inclusive. Plants of trailing arbutus, heretofore exempted part 
of the year when shipped without primary roots and soil-free, are now exempt 
from certification from October 16 to June 14, provided they are soil-free. 
Avery S. Hoyt, 
Acting Chief, Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine. 
AMENDMENT NO. 2 TO THE RULES AND REGULATIONS (SEVENTEENTH 
REVISION) SUPPLEMENTAL TO NOTICE OF QUARANTINE NO. 48 
(Approved April 4, 1940 ; effective April 5, 1940) 
Under authority conferred by the Plant Quarantine Act of August 20, 1912 (37 
Stat. 315), as amended by the act of Congress approved March 4, 1917 (39 Stat. 
1134, 1165), it is ordered that regulations 3, 5, and 6 (sees. 301.48-3, 5, and 6) of 
the rules and regulations (seventeenth revision) supplemental to Notice of Quar- 
antine No. 48 (sec. 301.48) on account of the Japanese beetle, which were promul- 
gated February 16, 1939, as amended, are hereby further amended to read as 
follows : 
Regulation 3 
Seo. 301.48-3. Regulated areas. — In accordance with the provisos to Notice of 
Quarantine No. 48 (twelfth revision) (sec. 301.48), the Secretary of Agriculture 
designates as regulated areas for the purpose of these regulations the States, Dis- 
trict, counties, townships, towns, cities, election districts, and magisterial dis- 
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