Parlier Municipal Code Ch. 6.08 Diseased Fruits and Vegetables

It is a misdemeanor for any person within the city to keep on hand or vend or give away or dispose of, any fruits, vegetables, fruit trees or ornamental shrubs which are infested with pests, such as cottony cushion scale, red scale or San Jose scale, or any other pest injurious to fruits, vegetables, fruit trees or ornamental shrubbery, and having a tendency to spread and propagate itself.

(Ord. 6 §30, 1922).

It shall be the duty of the city council to appoint, by resolution, at any time and under such salary as may be fixed by the council by such resolution, an inspector of fruit and quarantine officer, whose duty it shall be to inspect fruits, fruit trees, ornamental shrubbery and vegetables, and to cause the same, when so infected, to be destroyed. Such inspector shall have power to order persons having the same on hand, or vending the same, to destroy them and see, in person, that the same are so destroyed, and to enforce as a misdemeanor the provisions of the preceding Section 6.08.010 against any person whom he may deem wilfully violating the same.

(Ord. 6 §31, 1922).