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LAWS RELATING TO FOUL BROOD 
necessary treatment or destruction of his 
infected brood, bees, honey or appurten¬ 
ances, nor shall any person impede, hinder or 
obstruct an inspector in any of liis duties. 
(As amended 1921, Chap. 517, Sec. 1.) 
4726. Diseased bees declared nuisance— 
Abatement.—All bees, brood, and apiary ap¬ 
purtenances, infected with any contagious 
or infectious diseases which, after inspection 
by an inspector, who is hereby made sole 
judge of the character thereof, shall have 
been declared by him to be incurable ac¬ 
cording to his best judgment, and which ap¬ 
purtenances cannot be successfully disinfect¬ 
ed, and ar§ liable to spread disease, are here¬ 
by declared and adjudged to be public nuis¬ 
ances, and subject to abatement as such ac¬ 
cording to law. The inspector or deputy 
shall also cause said bees or brood or apiary 
appurtenances to be immediately destroyed 
by fire under his personal supervision, and 
the owner thereof or the person in charge 
of the same is hereby required to assist him 
in said work and to carry out such destruc¬ 
tion according to his directions. 
4727. Treatment of disease.—Wherever 
in the judgment of the inspector or his dep¬ 
uty it shall be practicable to cure the dis¬ 
eases or any of them which shall be found 
in any apiary, by treatment, he may order 
the bees and apiary appurtenances affected 
therewith to be treated for twenty-one days 
or until cured. Whenever treatment shall 
be so ordered the owner and the person in 
charge of said bees or appurtenances shall 
carry out proper treatment as prescribed. 
The inspector shall also inspect such dis¬ 
eased apiaries a second time after twenty- 
one days when he shall cause all bees, brood, 
and appurtenances and honey in which the 
disease shall be found not to have been 
cured to be destroyed as in section 4 [4726] 
hereof so far as may be necessary to prevent 
the spread of the disease; and wherever said 
property shall be so destroyed the owner 
thereof shall receive no compensation there¬ 
for. 
4728. Transfer of bees.—The State in¬ 
spector or his deputies at his discretion may 
order the owner or the person in charge of 
bees dwelling in log gums, boxes or other re¬ 
ceptacles in which the combs are station¬ 
ary, to transfer said bees to hives wherein 
the combs shall be movable. In default of 
such transfer said bees and all the articles 
in which they are contained are declared to 
be a public nuisance, and shall be disposed 
of according to section 4726, General Stat¬ 
utes of Minnesota, 1913. (As amended 1921, 
Chap. 517, Sec. 2.) 
4729. Offenses—Penalties.—-(a) No per¬ 
son shall sell, barter, offer for sale or barter, 
move, transport, deliver, ship or offer for 
shipment, any apiary, bees, comb, or used 
beekeeping appliances without a permit 
from the inspector of apiaries; or in lieu 
thereof, if shipped or transported from with¬ 
out the State, a certificate duly issued by 
the official State inspector showing that said 
apiary, bees, comb or appliances have been 
inspected and found not infected with any 
contagious or infectious disease of bees. 
Such permit or copy of such certificate shall 
be affixed to the outside of every package, 
box, crate, or bundle containing bees, comb, 
or used beekeeping appliances. The inspec¬ 
tor may refuse such permit whenever such 
refusal is necessary, in his judgment, to 
prevent the dissemination of any contagi¬ 
ous or infectious disease of bees, or until 
after he finds by inspection that the said 
apiary, bees, comb, or appliances are not in¬ 
fected with any such disease. 
(b) No person shall accept for shipment, 
ship or transport, any such bees, comb or 
used beekeeping appliances unless such per¬ 
mit or certificate is affixed on the outside of 
the package, box, crate or bundle containing 
the same; and the inspector or any of his 
deputies may forthwith seize and destroy 
any such shipment found at any time or 
place without such permit or certificate af¬ 
fixed as aforesaid. 
(c) The use of any invalid or altered 
permit or certificate and the misuse of any 
valid permit or certificate are hereby pro¬ 
hibited. 
(d) No person shall expose in any place 
to which bees have access, any bee product, 
hive, or other apiary appliance in such man¬ 
ner that contagious or infectious diseases of 
bees could be disseminated therefrom. 
(e) Any person who knows that any bees 
owned, possessed or controlled by him are 
infected with any contagious or infectious 
disease shall at once report to the inspector 
of apiaries, stating all other facts known to 
him with reference to said contagion or in¬ 
fection. 
(f) The words "person” and "owner” 
as used in this act include natural persons, 
firms, associations, and corporations; and 
any person who, himself, or by his agent or 
employe or as agent or employe for another 
violates any provision of this act, or any 
regulation or order made in pursuance there¬ 
of shall be punished by a fine of not less 
than five dollars nor more than one hundred 
dollars. (As amended 1921, Chap. 517, Sec. 
3.) 
4730. Queen bees, etc.—Any person en¬ 
gaged in the rearing of queen bees shall 
have his queen-rearing apiary inspected at 
least three times each summer season; on 
the discovery of the existence of any con¬ 
tagious or infectious disease in the bees, 
brood, or appurtenances of said apiary he 
shall cease to sell or give away any queen 
bees from said apiary until it shall have 
been declared free from disease by an in¬ 
spector after inspection thereof. Candy 
used in mailing cages of queen bees shall be 
made from honey which has been boiled 
thirty minutes or more. Any person violat- 
