HomeMy WebLinkAbout968ORDINANCE N0. 968
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AN ORDINANCE FOR THE PROTECTION OF THE FRUIT AND NUT
GROWING INDUSTRY OF BUTTE COUNTY AGAINST SERIOUS INFECTIOUS
OR TRANSMISSIBLE VIRUS DISEASES OF FRUIT AND NUT TREES AND
PROVIDING FAR THE PROPER ENFORCEMENT AND PROSECUTION OF
VIOLATORS THEREOF. _._.._. _._
The Board of Supervisors of the County of Butte, do ordain as
follows:
That Chapter 23 of the Code of the County of Butte, State of '
California, entitled "Trees and Shrubs" is amended by adding thereto
Article III, Section 23-6, as follows:
1. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation to
knowingly maintain, cultivate or propagate any fruit or nut tree or other
host plant infected with any serious virus disease within the County of
Butte.
2. The term "serious virus disease" specifically includes the virus
diseases referred to as the Yellow Leaf Roll of Peach, the 6~Iestern X Disease
of Peach (also known as the Buckskin Disease of Cherries}, the Peach Mosaic
Disease, the Peach Wart Disease, Yellow Bud Mosaic and any other as
specified by the County Agricultural Commissioner or the Director of
Agriculture.
3. The Agricultural Commissioner of Butte County shall, whenever he
deems it necessary, cause an inspection to be made of fruit and nut trees
for the presence of serious virus diseases and shall cause a suitable mark
or tag to be placed on any plant found to be infected Urith any such serious
virus disease and shall report the finding of such infection in writing to
the owner or other person in charge of the property upon completior. of a
positive determination of the disease.
k. Any person, firm, corporation or associatian of individuals who
knowingly grows, maintains or propagates any fruit or nut tree or ather
host plant infected with any such serious virus disease for a period of
more than seven days after written notification of such infection by the
,,County Agricultural Gommissioner shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon
conviction, shall be punished by confinement in the county jail for a period
,;;.not,;; to exceed six (6) months or by a fine not to exceed Five Hundred
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($500.00) Dollars,. or by both such fine and imprisonment.
5. If the infected plant has not been treated or destroyed within the
seven (7) day notification period, it shall be the duty of the Agricultural
Commissioner to treat or destroy the infected plant.
6. All other ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict with the
provisions of this ordinance are hereby repealed.
7. That this ordinance shall take effect thirty (30) days after the
date of its adoption, and before the expiration of fifteen (15) days after
its passage, it shall be published with the names of the members voting for
and against the same, once, in a newspaper published in the County of Butte,
State of California.
PASSED AND ADOPTED by the Board of Supervisors of the County of Butte,
State of California, this 13 day of February, 1968.
AYES: Supervisors Dunaway, Howsden, McKillop, Pryde and Chairman Maxon
NOES: None
.ABSENT: None
ATTEST:
JESSIE ROGr~.S, County Clerk
and ex-officio Clerk of the
Board of Supervisors
By
Donald L. Maxon, Chairman the
Butte County Board of Supervisors