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Louisiana's Justice of the Peace: 1924

Laws and History

1924

page 459

ACT NO. 233. AN ACT To regulate the sale of paris green, calcium arsenate, lead arsenate and all other insecticides and fungicides : to define the duties and powers of the Commissioner of Agriculture and Immigration in relation to the suppression of adulteration and fraud in the sale of paris green, calcium arsenate, lead arsenate and all other insecticides and fungicides in conformity therewith : to provide for the inspection and analysis of all paris green, calcium arsenate, lead arsenate and all other insecticides and fungicides sold for use in the State of Louisiana, and for the payment by the seller of the inspection fee therefor : to provide for guarantees of the ingredients contained in paris green, calcium arsenate, lead arsenate and all other insecticides and fungicides, and the affixing of stamps to the packages thereof as evidence of the guarantee and inspection thereof; to prohibit the sale of illegal and fraudulent paris green, calcium arsenate, lead arsenate and all other insecticides and fungicides, in violation of the provisions of this Act; and affixing fines and penalties for the violation of the provisions of this Act; to provide for judicial proceedings in rem against paris green, calcium arsenate, lead arsenate and all other insecticides and fungicides sold in contravention of this Act ; to give the Commissioner of Agriculture and Immigration a privilege thereon and right to writ of provisional seizure, to conserve said privilege, and to define the methods of said procedure ; to provide for suits for the recovery of fines, penalties and injunctions under this Act ; to provide for the distribution and expenditure of the fees and penalties and provide for the complete enforcement of the provisions of this Act and the expenses incident thereto; and to repeal all laws and parts of laws in conflict therewith, in so far as they might operate in the future.

Approved: July 15, 1924.