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i 4NDUF,N033 No. 158. this Count An
violating ny of thrcorporation
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AN ORDINANCE ENACTED FOR .Section is guilty of a misdemeanor.
? THE PURPOSE OF ERADICATING SECTION III.
THE DISEASES OF BEES: PROVID- It shall be unlawful for any person
ING FOR THE CARE OF BEES, THE or corporation to ship, haul or transport
CLEANSING AND DESTRUCTION OF from this County to another, any empty
BEE .HIVES CONTAINING DISEASE, hives or parts of hives, without first
+! AND FOR THE PROPER INSPECTION obtaining a written certificate from the
OF BEES AND BEE HIVES, AND Inspector of Apiaries showing that all
PROVIDING THE PENALTIES FOR of said hives and parts of hives are free
THE VIOLATION THEREOF. from disease. Any person or corporation
violating any of the provisions of this
The Boardof Supervisors of the Section is guilty of a misdemeanor.
'dounty of Contra Costa, State of Cali- SECTION IV.
fornia, do ordain as follows: It is unlawful for any person or cor-
SECTION I. poration to move any bees or empty
It shall be unlawful for any person'or hives or parts of hives into the County
corporation in the County of Contra of Contra Costa, that at any time have
Costa, to keep bees.in boxes or station- had bees therein from a point within
C ary frames or immovable comb hives for twenty-five miles of a known seat of in-
more than thirty days after written no- fection of black brood. Any person or
tice served upon said person or corpora- corporation violating the provisions of
tion by the Inspector of Apiaries or his this section is guilty of a misdemeanor,
Deputy, to transfer the said bees from and the Inspector of Apiaries of this
the boxes, stationary frames or immov- County shall have the right and author-
able comb hives to suitable and legal ity to burn any and all such hives and
frame hives, provided that no removal parts of hives and their contents.
shall be required between the first day SECTION V.
of November and the first day of April Any owner of bees who shall be noti-
of any year. That in case the person or fled by the Inspector of Apiaries that
corporation does not remove or cause to .foul brood or any other infectious dis-
be moved the said bees from boxes, sta- ease exists in any hives in his apiary,
tionary frames or immovable comb and who shall within ten days from the
hives, within the time specified in said time of receiving such notification fail
notice, then the person owning or con- or refuse to treat or destroy such bees,
trolling said boxes, stationary frames hives, combs, or appliances, shall be
or immovable comb hives, containing guilty of a misdemeanor.
bees, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, SECTION VI.
and the Inspector of Apiaries, or his Any person or corporation found guilty
Deputy, shall have the right to burn or of a misdemeanor under this Ordinance
cause to be burned all of said bo -Qs. shall be punished by a fine not exceeding
stationary frames and immovable comb the sum of Five Hundred Dollars, or by
hives, together with the bees therein. imprisonment in the County Jail not
SECTION II. exceeding One Hundred and Eighty days,
It shall be unlawful for any person or or by both such fine and imprisonment.
corporation, to ship, express, haul or This Ordinance shall take effect and
transport into this County from any be in force from and after March 10th,
other County, or place, any empty sec;- 1921, upon the publication thereof for
and-hand hives or parts of hives that one week in The Byron Times, a news-
have previously had bees therein. Any paper printed and published in Contra
-and all such hives or parts of hives Costa County, all as required by law.
that shall or may be shipped, hauled, ex- Passed and adopted by the Board of
pressed, or transported into this County Supervisors of the County of Contra
shall immediately, and without delay, Costa. State of California, this 7th
be re-shipped to the owner, at his ex- day of February, 1921, by the following
pense, or the same shall be destroyed vote, to wit:
by the Inspector of Apiaries; provided, Ayes: Supervisors Knott, Casey, Hay-
any person or corporation who may de- den, Buchanan and Trembath.
sire to ship, express. haul, or transport Noes: None.
any second-hand, empty hives or parts Absent: None.
of such hives into this County shall file -�--
..vith the Inspector of Apiaries of this W. B. BUCHANAN,
1 County, at least five days before said Chairman of the Board of Supervisors of
hives are received into this County, at the County of Contra Costa, State of
least two affidavits showing that all of California.
said hives and parts of hives have bQf►it Attest:
boiled-under close steam pressure fully J. H. WELLS,
thirty minutes or more. On the boiling Clerk of the Board of Supervisors of the
of said hives or parts of hives, and County of Contra Costa, State of Cali-
the filing of said affidavits, said hives forn.ia.
and parts of hives will be admitted into One publication, February 18, 1921.
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