Chap. 260.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 885 of the Code of Vir-
ginia. [S B 61]
Approved March 16, 1920.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
eight hundred and eighty-five of the Code of Virginia be amended and
re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Sec. 885. Red cedar trees; declared public nuisance, when.—It
shall hereafter be unlawful within this State for any person, firm or
corporation to own, plant or keep alive and standing upon his or its
premises, any red cedar tree, or trees (which are or may be) the
source, harbor or host plant for the communicable plant disease com-
monly known as “orange” or “cedar rust,” of the apple, and any such
cedar trees, when growing within a radius of two miles of any apple
orchard in this State, are hereby declared a public nuisance and shall
be destroyed as hereinafter provided, and it shall be the duty of the
Owner or owners of any such cedar trees to destroy the same as soon
as they are directed to do so by the State entomologist, as hereinafter
provided. .