Chapter 462. To amend section 10 of the Plant Quarantine Act, approved August 20, 1912
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Chap. 462: To amend section 10 of the Plant Quarantine Act, approved August 20, 1912. Chapter 462 45 Stat. 468 1928-05-01 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2025-01-24 70 1 public Chapter 462.— An Act To amend section 10 of the Plant Quarantine Act, approved August 20, 1912. May 1, 1928.[[H. R. 484](/us/bill/70/hr/484).][[Public, No. 327](/us/pl/70/327).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That section 10 Plant Quarantine Act.Punishment for violations.Vol. 37, p. 319;
Vol. 39, p. 1165.Vol. 37, p. 319, amended.of the Plant Quarantine Act, approved August 20, 1912 (Thirty-seventh Statutes at Large, page 315), as amended by the Act of March 4, 1917 (Thirty-ninth Statutes at Large, page 1165), be, and the same is hereby, amended by adding at the end thereof the following: Agricultural Department employees authorized to stop without warrant suspected persons, etc., and seize and destroy prohibited nursery stock, etc., found. " “That any employee of the Department of Agriculture, authorized by Secretary of Agriculture to enforce the provisions of this Act and furnished with and wearing a suitable badge for identification, who has probable cause to believe that any person coming into the United States, or any vehicle, receptacle, boat, ship, or vessel, coming from any country or countries or moving interstate, possesses, carries, or contains any nursery stock, plants, plant products, or other articles the entry or movement of which in interstate or foreign commerce is prohibited or restricted by the provisions of this Act, or by any quarantine or order of the Secretary of Agriculture issued or promulgated pursuant thereto, shall have power to stop and, without warrant, to inspect, search, and examine such person, vehicle, receptacle, boat, ship, or vessel, and to seize, destroy, or otherwise dispose of, such nursery stock, plants, plant products, or other articles found to be moving or to have been moved in interstate commerce or to have been brought into the United States in violation of this Act or of such quarantine or order.
” " Approved, May 1, 1928.
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To amend section 10 of the Plant Quarantine Act, approved August 20, 1912
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