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GENERAL AND SPECIAL LAWS. 97
an emergency and an imperative public necessity requiring the
suspenson of the constitutional rule requiring bills to be read
on three several days and it is hereby suspended, and this Act
shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage, and
it is so enacted.
Approved March 3, 1927.
Effective March 3, 1927.
AGRICULTURE-PROTECTION AGAINST PESTS
AND PLANT DISEASES.
S. B. No. 69.] CHAPTER 69.
An Act authorizing the Commissioner of Agriculture to establish, maintain
and enforce quarantine regulations to protect the agricultural and
horticultural interests of this State against infestation by insect pests
and plant diseases; to prohibit or restrict the sale and transportation
of such plants and plant products as are known to carry insect pests
and plant diseases; to have full power to deal with dangerous fruit and
crop pests and plant diseases in such manner as may be necessary to
carry into effect provisions of this Act; to have authority to declare
"pest-free" zones; providing for hearings to be held by the Chief
Entomologist of the Department of Agriculture and others that may
be designated; providing for due notice for such hearings and reports
of the proceedings had; providing for appeal from the decision of the
Commissioner of Agriculture; providing for declaration of "control"
or "eradication" zones by the Commissioner of Agriculture upon recommendation
of the Commissioners' Court of any county in this State;
making it the duty of the Commissioner of Agriculture to cause an
investigation to be made of the existence or non-existence of any pest
in any area when called upon by the Commissioners' Court; providing
for the Commissioners' Court to hold hearings and to make report to
the Commissioner of Agriculture of its conclusions; authorizing the
Commissioners' Court to appropriate moneys to carry into effect the
provisions of this Act; providing that this Act shall be cumulative of
all laws now on the statute books; providing penalties and declaring an
emergency.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas:
SECTION 1. If the Commissioner of Agriculture of this State,
hereinafter called the "Commissioner", determines the fact, as
provided in Section 3 hereof, that any dangerous insect pest or
plant disease new to and not heretofore widely distributed in
this State exists outside of Texas, or if such pest be introduced
into this State, he is hereby authorized and it is made his duty to
establish, maintain and enforce a quarantine against such infested
area and shall prevent the movement from such quarantined
areas into areas in this State not infested of any such
plants and plant products as are liable to disseminate the pest
under consideration. If such plants or plant products as shall
be quarantined, as provided for herein, can be so disinfected or
treated as to not endanger the agricultural interests of this
State, then the Commissioner shall promulgate rules and regu4-Laws
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Gammel, Hans Peter Mareus Neilsen. The Laws of Texas, 1927 [Volume 25], book, 1927; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth16125/m1/113/: accessed April 23, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .