bee inspector, who is resident of said county, who shall be a skilled bee keeper, having a thorough knowledge of foul brood and other diseases injurious to bees and their larvae and the treatment of same. § 2. Inspector to Accept Office-Removal. The person so appointed shall, within five days after his appointment, file with the said county judge his written acceptance of the office, or, in default thereof, or in case of vacancy, the county judge in the same manner may make appointments until said office is filled. The inspector shall hold his office for two years and until his successor is appointed and qualified, and may appoint sufficient deputy inspectors to inspect the county thoroughly, except when on petition of ten persons (each of whom is a resident. of said county and possessor of an apiary), to the judge of said county, he may remove said inspector for cause after a hearing of petitioners. 3. Inspectors to be Notified by Bee Owers of Disease, Etc.-May Kill Diseased Bees. Any bee keeper or other persons who shall have cause to believe that an apiary in his county is infected with foul brood or other disease, either in his own apiary, or elsewhere, shall notify the inspector stating that on information or belief he believes that certain apiaries, describing the location, naming the owner or keeper, is affected with foul brood or other disease, and his ground for such belief. On receiving said notice from any source of the existence in an apiary in his county, of the disease known as foul brood, or any other infectious or contagious disease of bees, the county inspector of bees or his deputy shall forthwith inspect each colony of bees and all hives, implements and apparatus, honey and supplies on hand or used in connection with such apiary, and shall treat any and all colonies so infected; also thoroughly disinfect all hives, bee houses, honey and apparatus that have been used in connection with any such diseased colonies; or at the election of the owner or person in charge of such bees may, within the same time, utterly and completely destroy said bees, hives, houses, combs, honey and apparatus by first killing the bees (by the use of sulphur fumes when the bees are in the hives for the night), by fire, or bury the same in the ground with a covering of not less than two feet of earth. 4. Premises May Be Entered and Bees Inspected. Any inspector of bees shall have the right to enter the premises of any bee keeper where the bees are kept, and inspect such bees, and any person resisting or refusing to allow said inspection by said bee inspector shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and may be then and there arrested by said bee inspector or person deputized by him and brought before a justice of the peace, and upon conviction shall be fined not less than ten or more than twentyfive dollars. § 5. Inspector Must Disinfect His Clothing. After inspecting, working with or handling infected fixtures, or handling diseased bees, the inspector or other person shall, before leaving the premises, or proceeding to any other apiary, thoroughly disinfect his own person and clothing, and shall see that any assistant or assistants that may have been with him have also thoroughly disinfected their clothing and person. § 6. Bees May Be Ordered Transferred. Any inspector shall have full power in his discretion to order any owner or possessor of bees dwelling in box hives or gums (being mere boxes or gums without frames) to transfer such bees to movable frame hives with straight combs built from comb foundation or comb foundation starters, within a specified time, and in default of such transfer, after said length of time, the inspector may transfer such bees at the owner's expense, if free from disease; but, if diseased, he may destroy or order the destruction. of such hives and bees as a public nuisance. § 7. Penalty for Keeping, Etc. Should any owner, or keeper of, or other person having diseased bees or their larvae, or of any affected hives or combs, appliances or utensils for bee keeping, seli or barter or give away the same or allow the same or any part thereof to be moved, such person shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction such person shall be fined not less than ten nor more than twenty-five dollars. § 8. Penalty. Should any person, whose bees have been destroyed or treated for foul brood, sell, or offer for sale, any bees, hives or appurtenances of any kind after such destruction or treatment and before being authorized by the inspector to do so, or should he expose, in his bee yard or elsewhere, any infected comb, honey or other infected thing, or conceal the fact that such disease exists among his bees, such person shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction such person shall be fined not less than ten nor more than twenty-five dollars. § 9. Penalty. If any owner or keeper of bees knows of, or after being notified by an inspector that foul brood or other infectious or contagious disease exists in any of the hives in the apiaries owned or in charge of said persons, and shall fail to comply within ten days from receiving said knowledge and the date of receiving instructions from the county inspector to cure or destroy the bees or hives, or their appliances, such person shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof such person shall be fined not less than twenty dollars nor more than fifty dollars. § 10. Bees, Etc., May Be Destroyed. When the owner or possessor of bees shall disobey the directions of said bee inspector in curing or destroying any diseased bees, honey, comb, hives or appliances, said bees, honey, comb, hives, and appliances shall be declared a public nuisance, and the said bee inspector shall at once destroy said bees, honey, hives, or appliances, and may deputize such additional persons as he may find necesasry to effect such destruction. § 11. Compensation of Inspector. The compensation if the inspector, or his deputy, shall be paid by the owner of the bees inspected, transferred or treated, and shall be at the rate of twenty-five cents for each colony inspected, and fifty cents for each colony transferred or treated. § 12. All laws conflicting with this act are hereby annulled. Neither approved nor disapproved. CHAPTER 93. AN ACT to repeal an Act to incorporate the town of Ford, Clark County, Kentucky, and an Act amendatory thereto. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. That an Act entitled "An Act to incorporate the town of Ford, in Clark County," which became a law March 7, 1888 (Session Acts 1887-8, Chapter 424, page 872), and an Act entitled "An Act to amend the Charter of the town of Ford," which became a law May 22, 1890, (Session Acts 1889-90, Chapter 1739, page 1316), be, and the same are, hereby repealed, and said charter and amended charter be, and the same are now annulled. Neither approved nor disapproved. CHAPTER 94. AN ACT relating to the office of Police Judge in cities of the Second Class, in this Commonwealth. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: (1.) When from any cause the Police Judge of a city of the Second Class shall fail to attend and hold court, the Mayor of the city shall designate some attorney, who has no case on the docket of said court, to act as judge pro tem, and such judge so designated shall exercise the same rights, powers and duties, and shall receive the same pro rata compensation, as provided by law or ordinances as to the regular judge. The regular judge of said Police Court shall be entitled to a vacation of one month in each year, and during said vacation the compensation of the pro tem judge, designated as above provided, shall not be deducted from the salary of the regular judge. The pro tem judge herein provided for shall be paid in the same manner and at the same rate per diem, as is provided for the regular judge. (2.) All laws or parts of laws in conflict herewith are hereby repealed. Neither approved nor disapproved. |