Michigan · statute · 313 of 1929, Mich. Comp. Laws · 10 active provisions
For the purposes of this act the following words, names and terms shall be construed respectively to mean: (a) Commissioner: The commissioner of agriculture. (b) Cultivated black currants: Plants, roots, cuttings or scions of Ribes nigrum L. (c) Currants and gooseberries: Plants, roots, cuttings or scions belonging to…
(1) The fungus disease commonly known as the white pine blister rust caused by the organism Cronartium ribicola Fischer is declared to be a dangerous forest pest in all its stages. (2) The director of the department of agriculture shall enforce and administer the measures specified in this act for the control of this p…
Any white pines, currants or gooseberries within the state which are found to be infected with white pine blister rust are hereby declared a public nuisance, and any such diseased plants and any and all wild plants of the genera Ribes and Grossularia, may be destroyed forthwith by order of the commissioner or his agent…
The cultivated black currant is hereby declared a public nuisance. Planting, possessing, growing, propagating, selling or offering for sale plants, roots, or cuttings of cultivated black currants within the state is hereby prohibited. Such roots, cuttings or plants now planted or growing may be destroyed by the commiss…
The commissioner is hereby authorized and empowered to promulgate by letter, publication, poster or other means, information concerning the white pine blister rust and to designate by the aforesaid means of promulgation blister rust control areas within the state in which control measures are necessary or advisable. In…
If cultivated currants, gooseberries or white pines which are not infected with white pine blister rust, are destroyed by specific order of the commissioner or his agents, the owner may be compensated therefor, the damages to be appraised by the commissioner or his agents at and not to exceed the actual value of the ma…
The commissioner and his agents shall have the right to enter upon any private or public lands to determine the presence or the absence of white pine blister rust in any of its stages and to carry out measures for its control.
The commissioner may co-operate with the United States department of agriculture, with the department of conservation, and with counties, townships, associations, institutions and individuals for the suppression and control of white pine blister rust, and shall carry on such investigations of the disease and its contro…
The commissioner is hereby authorized and empowered to prohibit and prevent or regulate the entry into or movement within the state from any part thereof to any other part, of any white pines or any plants of genus Ribes or Grossularia when such plants are to be shipped into blister rust control areas.
Any person violating any of the provisions of this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punished by a fine of not more than 100 dollars or imprisonment for not more than 90 days, and costs of prosecution, or both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court.