Section 2-17-8. – Willful transportation of infestation.
§ 2-17-8. Willful transportation of infestation. Any person willfully importing into this state, or willfully transporting from place to place within this state, any imagos, eggs, caterpillars, or pupae of the moths shall be fined not exceeding one hundred dollars ($100) and be imprisoned for not more than one year. History of Section.P.L. 1908, ch. […]
Section 2-17-9. – Nuisance.
§ 2-17-9. Nuisance. The white pine blister rust, a disease of five (5) needle pines and the species of the genus ribes, is declared to be a public nuisance, and its suppression is authorized and required. No owner or occupant of an estate infested with that nuisance is by reason of that infestation liable to […]
Section 2-17-10. – Powers of director.
§ 2-17-10. Powers of director. The department of environmental management shall take steps to suppress the nuisance described in § 2-17-9 and to this end the director of that department may make all necessary rules and regulations governing all work done under the provisions of §§ 2-17-9 — 2-17-16. The director may act in cooperation […]
Section 2-17-11. – Rules as to transportation and planting.
§ 2-17-11. Rules as to transportation and planting. The director of environmental management shall make any rules and regulations that he or she may deem expedient in combatting the disease with reference to the transportation of five (5) leaved pine trees and species of the genus ribes, or wood, lumber or other material derived from […]