Chap. 19.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 885 of the Code of Virginia,
as heretofore amended, relating to red cedar trees. [S B 4]

Approved February 17, 1936

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tion eight hundred and eighty-five of the Code of Virginia, as hereto-
fore amended, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 885. Red Cedar Trees; Declared Public Nuisance,
When.—lIt shall hereafter be unlawful within this State for any per-
son, 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 dis-
ease commonly known as “orange” or ‘‘cedar rust,” of the apple, and
any such cedar trees, when growing within a radius of three miles of
any apple orchard in this State, are hereby declared a public niusance
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 here-
inafter provided.

2. An emergency existing this act shall be in force from its pas-
sage,