All nursery stock shipped into this state shall bear on each package a certificate that the contents of such package have been inspected by a state or government officer and that such contents appear free from all dangerous insects and diseases. If nursery stock has been brought into the state without such a certificate, the express, freight or other transportation company or person shall, before delivering the shipment to the consignee, notify the State Entomologist of the facts, giving the name and address of the consignee, the origin of shipment and approximate number of cars, boxes or packages and the probable date of delivery to the consignee. The State Entomologist may cause the inspection and, if infested, the treatment of the stock. Any person violating any of the provisions of this section shall be fined not more than fifty dollars.
(1949 Rev., S. 3262; 1961, P.A. 4; 1971, P.A. 871, S. 99.)
History: 1961 act deleted provisions which forbade unpacking woody field-grown stock from foreign countries without inspector being present unless permission to do so has been granted and which authorized state entomologist to order treatment of infested stock; 1971 act deleted provision which exempted bales, boxes, etc. imported to state from provisions of Sec. 53-117 if labeled as to origin and accompanied by certificate.
Structure Connecticut General Statutes
Title 22 - Agriculture. Domestic Animals
Chapter 426 - Agricultural Experiment Stations
Section 22-79. - Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station. Board of control.
Section 22-79a. - Office of Aquatic Invasive Species. Established. Duties. Staffing.
Section 22-80. - Meetings of board; officers.
Section 22-81. - Duties of board. Reports.
Section 22-81a. - Testing of mosquitoes for public health threat.
Section 22-81b. - Best practices and guidelines for investigating and treating bed bug infestations.
Section 22-82. - Endowment of agricultural experiment station.
Section 22-82a. - Inventions and discoveries by employees.
Section 22-83. - Research and experiment in tobacco growing.
Section 22-84a. - Research consistent with goals of integrated pest management.
Section 22-88. - State Entomologist; appointment; duties.
Section 22-89. - Registration of honey bees.
Section 22-90a. - Pollinator Advisory Committee. Membership.
Section 22-90b. - Model pollinator habitat. Requirements.
Section 22-91. - Gypsy and brown-tail moths.
Section 22-91a. - Gypsy moth as public nuisance.
Section 22-91b. - Survey of infestation by State Entomologist.
Section 22-91c. - Roadside spraying. State aid.
Section 22-91d. - Assessment of landowners.
Section 22-91e. - Emergency. Appropriations.
Section 22-91f. - Epidemic conditions.
Section 22-96. - Certificate of inspection of imported nursery stock.
Section 22-97. - Nursery and nursery stock defined.
Section 22-98. - Nursery stock; powers of State Entomologist.
Section 22-99. - Nurserymen and dealers to register.
Section 22-100. - Nursery certificate. Uninspected stock.
Section 22-101. - Penalty. Appeal.
Section 22-102. - Storrs Agricultural Experiment Station.
Section 22-103. - Acceptance of certain federal acts.
Section 22-104. - Use of federal funds by experiment stations.