Pennsylvania Act 1949-502 — RELATING TO CROP BEARING TREES

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RELATING TO CROP BEARING TREES
                 Act of May 23, 1949, P.L. 1652, No. 502              Cl. 03
                                  AN ACT

     Relating to the propagation and growth of nut trees and other
        trees bearing crops, excluding our present commercial fruit
        trees in this Commonwealth; providing for the appointment,
        qualifications, term and compensation of an Expert Tree Crops
        Advisor; prescribing his powers and duties; imposing and
        conferring certain powers and duties on the Secretary of
        Agriculture in respect thereto; and making an appropriation.

        The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
     hereby enacts as follows:

        Section 1.  The Secretary of Agriculture is hereby authorized
     and directed to appoint as an Expert Tree Crops Advisor a person
     who shall meet the qualifications as to education, experience
     and knowledge relative to the propagation or growing of trees
     bearing crops, especially nut trees, as the said secretary shall
     determine. Such person so appointed shall hold office during the
     pleasure of the said secretary and until a successor is
     appointed, and shall receive such compensation as shall be fixed
     by the said secretary and, in addition, shall be paid all
     expenses incurred incident to the performance of the duties
     hereinafter imposed.
        Section 2.  The Expert Tree Crops Advisor so appointed shall
     have the power and shall perform the following duties:
        (1)  To ascertain in what locality and which type of nut
     trees and other trees bearing crops, except our present
     commercial fruit trees, can be successfully propagated and grown
     in this Commonwealth;
        (2)  To visit each year all the leading experimenters in the
     State conducting private experiments and procure the results of
     their experiments;
        (3)  To assimilate all information received from such private
     experimenters and all literature or information received from
     any research, experimental and educational programs conducted in
     other states and disseminate all such information available to
     the general public, after first having made permanent records
     thereof and filed same with the Department of Agriculture;
        (4)  To conduct a research program for the furnishing,
     procuring and planting of native nut trees and other trees
     bearing crops, excepting our present commercial fruit trees, and
     the possibilities of growing same for food, feed and commercial
     purposes;
        (5)  To render general assistance and aid to various
     independent nut and tree crop growers who are conducting private
     experiments and research so that the results gained therefrom
     may be made available to the general public and to the
     Department of Agriculture;
        (6)  To systematically record the results gleaned from such
     research, experimental and educational programs so conducted,
     whether privately or not, and make such records easily
     accessible for dissemination; and
        (7)  To do and perform any and all duties and acts to
     effectuate the purposes and aims of this act.
        Section 3.  The sum of fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000), or
     so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby specifically
     appropriated to the Department of Agriculture for the payment of
     the compensation and expenses of the Expert Tree Crops Advisor
     herein appointed and other incidental expenses necessary to
     carry out the purposes of this act, for the fiscal biennium
     commencing the first day of June, one thousand nine hundred
     forty-nine.
        Section 4.  The provisions of this act shall become effective
     immediately upon final enactment.