8. Between the 1st of June and the 1st of October of each year, the entomologist shall visit every nursery for which the permit mentioned in section 3 has been granted, in order to ascertain the health and structure of the plants cultivated, whether or not there exists in such nursery any of the destructive insects or plant diseases hereinafter specified or any epidemic caused by insects or parasitic or non-parasitic disease, and shall deliver to the owner or person operating a nursery a certificate stating, if such be the case, that, when he inspected such nursery, he did not ascertain the presence of any plague; such certificate shall be valid up to, and not including, the date of the inspection in the following year unless sooner cancelled by the entomologist.
During such inspection, the entomologist is authorized, for purposes of agricultural statistics, to make an inventory of the different species of plants raised there, and the owner or occupant of such nursery is obliged to furnish him, for the purpose, with correct information.
R. S. 1964, c. 129, s. 8.