Section 286.217 - Sale of stock; inspection, transportation of nursery stock, native trees, perennials, shrubs; uninspected stock. - Michigan Statutes

THE INSECT PEST AND PLANT DISEASE ACT (EXCERPT)
Act 189 of 1931

286.217 Sale of stock; inspection, transportation of nursery stock, native trees, perennials, shrubs; uninspected stock.

Sec. 17.

It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, partnership, association or corporation to sell within this state any nursery stock unless such nursery stock has been officially inspected and a certificate issued by the director stating that such nursery stock has been inspected and found free from insect pests and plant diseases. It shall, however, be the privilege of a nurseryman or plant grower holding a valid certificate covering nursery stock grown by him to ship under the certificate nursery stock grown for him elsewhere or purchased by him from other states or countries, if all such nursery stock is received under an official certificate acceptable to the director and states that it has been inspected where grown and found to be apparently free from insect pests and diseases. The director shall also have authority to inspect or re-inspect at any time or place any nursery stock shipped in or into the state and to treat it as hereinafter provided. It shall be contrary to the provisions of this act for any person, firm, association, partnership, tourist or corporation to ship into or transport within this state any nursery stock unless same has first been inspected by the director. In the case of plants moving from a nursery or other premises, a tag bearing a valid certificate issued to the person, firm, partnership, association or corporation owning or in charge of the nursery or other premises from where the plants have been moved must be in plain sight and attached to some of the plants on the vehicle used to transport the plants. All native trees, herbaceous perennials and shrubs taken up from farmers' woodlots, forests or other premises other than a nursery, when being shipped into or transported on the highways of the state, shall have attached to each plant a special tag furnished at cost by the director, which tag shall remain on the plant or plants after they are replanted, and shall have plainly printed thereon the fact that this plant is of native stock and is not nursery grown and such fact shall be clearly and legibly stated in all advertising media offering same for sale. Carrying uninspected nursery stock in vehicles is prohibited by law, and the director is authorized to post the highways warning tourists and other carriers against the transportation of wild trees, perennials and shrubs and he is also authorized to cooperate with the department of conservation and seek the cooperation of the Michigan state police or local law enforcing officials in the enforcement of the provisions of this law.

History: 1931, Act 189, Eff. Sept. 18, 1931 ;-- Am. 1933, Act 246, Imd. Eff. July 10, 1933 ;-- CL 1948, 286.217 ;-- Am. 1955, Act 255, Eff. Oct. 14, 1955 ;-- Am. 1961, Act 239, Eff. Sept. 8, 1961