Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1906-01-26
REGARDING PESTS.
Following Section of Law Is of
Interest.

Section 4I85. 1t shall be the
duty of the several members OF
the board and OF the secretary of
the county Inspectors, under
their directions, whenever they
shall deem it necessary, to cause
an inspection to be made of the
orchards, nurseries, trees, plants,
vegetables, vines, or any fruit
packing house, storeroom, sales
room, or any other place within
their districts, and if found in
tested with any pests, disease.
or fungus growth, injurious to
fruits, plants, vegetables, trees OF
vines, or with their eggs or lar
vac, liable to spread to other
places or localities, or of such
nature as to be a public dan
ger, they shall notify the owner
or owners, or persons in charge
of or in possession of articles,
things, or places, that the same
are SO infested and shall require
said persons 10 eradicate or de-
stroy said insects or pests, or
their eggs or larvae, or to treat
such contagious diseases, within
a certain time to be specified in
said notice. Said notices may
be served upon the person or
persons, or any OF them, owning,
having charge, or having possess
ion of such infested place, article,
or thing, by any member of the
board or by the secretary thereof,
or by any person deputed by the
said board for that purpose, or
they may be served in the same
manner as summons in an
action at law. Such notices
shall contain directions for the
application of some treatment ap-
proved by the Commissioners for
the qualification or destruction of
said pests, or the eggs or larvae
thereof, or the treatment of con-
tagious diseases or fungus,
growths. Any and all such
places, orchards, nurseries, trees,
plants, shrubs, vegetables, vines,
fruit, or articles thus infested are
hereby declared to be a public
nuisance; and whenever any such
nuisance shall exist at any place
in the State, on the property of
any owner or owners, upon whom
>or upon the person in charge or
possession of whose property,
notice has been served as afore-
said, and who shall have failed or
refused to abate the same within
the time specified in said notice,
or in the property OF any nom
resident or any property not in
the possession of any person and
the owner or owners of which
cannot be found by the resident
member of the board or by the
secretary or county inspector
under his or their directions, to
cause such nuisance to be at once
abated by eradicating or destroy
ing said insects or pests, or their
eggs or larvae, or by treating OF
disinfecting or destroying the in
tested or diseased articles. Their
expense thereof shall be a county
charge, and the county court
shall allow and pay the same ou1
of the general fund of the county.
Any and all sums so paid shall
be and become lien on the pro-
perty and premises from which
said nuisance shall have been re.
moved or abated, in pursuance oi
this act, and may pc recovered by
suit of equity against such pro
perty or premises, which suit te
foreclose such liens shall be
brought in the circuit court o.
the county where the premises
are situated, bv the district at
torney, in the name and for the
benefit of the county making
such payment or payments.
The proceedings in such case:
shall be governed by the sam,
rules, as far as may be applicable
as suits to foreclose mechanics
liens, and the property, shall b.
sold under the order of the cour
and the proceeds applied in lik'
manner. The board is hereb,
invested with the power to caus
such nuisance to be abated in