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FRUIT.

SEC. 1. Place of production must be stamped on container. All fruit, green or dried contained in boxes, barrels, or packages, which shall hereafter be shipped or offered for shipment in this State by any person, firm, or corporation, shall have stamped, branded, stenciled, or labeled in a conspicuous place on the outside of every such box, barrel, or package, in clearly legible letters at least one-quarter of an inch in height, a statement truly and correctly designating the county and immediate locality in which such fruit was grown.

SEC. 2. Penalty. Any person, firm, or corporation violating any of the provisions or requirements of section one of this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be fined in any sum not less than two hundred dollars, nor more than five hundred dollars.

SEC. 3. Inspectors. The governor of the State of California, after the passage of this act, shall appoint such inspectors as may be necessary to accomplish the purpose of this act, to serve without compensation, who are hereby vested with full authority to enter any car or depot containing fruit for shipment, or any warehouse, packing house, storeroom, or other place or places where any fruit is kept, packed, or prepared for shipment, to inspect the same or any part thereof. Such inspectors are also vested with full authority to examine such books of any person, firm, or corporation engaged in packing or shipping fruit as may be necessary to accomplish the purposes of this act.

SEC. 4. Effect. This act shall take effect immediately on and after its passage. Deering's General Laws of 1903, Act 2102, pp. 592–593.

SEC. 1. Boxes or barrels of citrus fruits must be marked as to locality of production. All citrus fruits contained in boxes or barrels, which shall hereafter be shipped, or offered for shipment in this State by any person, firm, or corporation, shall have stamped, stenciled, or printed in a conspicuous place on the outside of every such box or barrel, in clearly legible letters, a statement truly and correctly designating the county and immediate locality in which such fruit was grown. Such statement shall be placed thereon by the shipper of said fruit.

SEC. 2. Penalty. Any person, firm, or corporation violating any of the provisions or requirements of section one of this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be fined in any sum not less than two hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars.

SEC. 3. Inspector; prosecution. The governor of the State of California, upon the passing of this act, shall appoint one inspector of citrus fruit shipments, to serve without compensation, whose duty it shall be to examine boxes and barrels used in the shipment of citrus fruits; and upon the discovery by said inspector of any violation of the requirements of this act he shall forthwith give notice thereof to the district attorney of the county in which the offense was committed, and upon receiving such notice it shall be the duty of such district attorney to prosecute the offender under the provisions of this act.

SEC. 4. Effect. This act shall take effect immediately on and after its passage. Deering's General Laws, 1903, Act 2100, pp. 591–592.

HONEY.

SEC. 1. Addition of glucose, etc., to extracted honey. No person shall, within this State, manufacture for sale, offer for sale, or sell any extracted honey which is adulterated by the admixture therewith of either refined or commercial glucose, or any other substance or substances, article or articles which may in any manner affect the purity of the honey.

SEC. 2. Samples. Every person manufacturing, exposing, or offering for sale or delivering to a purchaser any extracted honey, shall furnish to any person interested, or demanding the same, who shall apply to him for the purpose, and tender him the value of the same, a sample sufficient for the analysis of any such extracted honey which is in his possession.

SEC. 3. "Extracted honey" defined. For the purposes of this act, "extracted honey" is the transformed nectar of flowers, which nectar is gathered by the bee from natural sources, and is extracted from the comb after it has been stored by the bee.

SEC. 4. Penalty. Whoever violates any of the provisions of this act is guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not less than twenty-five nor more than four hundred dollars, or imprisoned in the county jail not less than twenty-five days nor more than six months, or both such fine and imprisonment. And any person found guilty of manufacturing, offering for sale, or selling any adulterated honey under the provisions of this act may, in the discretion of the court, be adjudged to pay, in addition to the penalties hereinbefore provided for, all necessary costs and expenses, not to exceed fifty dollars, incurred in analyzing such adulterated honey of which such person may have been found guilty of manufacturing, selling, or offering for sale.

SEC. 5. This act shall be in force and take effect from and after its passage.
Approved February 23, 1897. Penal Code, 1903, Appendix, pp. 559–560.

ICE.

377c. Any person who shall violate, or refuse, or neglect, to conform to any sanitary rule, order, or regulation prescribed by the State board of health for the prevention of the pollution of ice or the sale or disposition of polluted ice offered, kept or intended for public use or consumption, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

Added March 18, 1905, by Statutes and Amendments to the Codes, 1905, ch. 136, p. 138, to Deering's Penal Code, 1903.

OLIVE OIL.

SEC. 1. Imitation olive oil defined. For the purpose of this act every article, substance, or compound, or oil other than that extracted solely from the fruit of the olive tree, made in the semblance of olive oil extracted solely from the fruit of the olive tree, is hereby declared to be imitation olive oil.

SEC. 2. Manufacturers' label. Each person who manufactures imitation olive oil shall place upon every bottle, can, or other vessel containing such imitation oil, a label, with the words "imitation olive oil" printed thereon in capital letters, in a clear and durable manner, in the English language, in plain type, designated and known as twenty-four-point letter type (two-line pica), of a Gothic face; said label shall also state plainly the name and address of the manufacturer or compounder, the name and place where manufactured and put up, and also the names and actual percentages of the different ingredients contained in each bottle, can, or vessel.

SEC. 3. Transportation of imitation oil. No person, by himself or another, shall knowingly ship, consign, or forward by any common carrier, whether public or private, any imitation olive oil, unless the same be marked as provided in section two of this act, and no carrier shall knowingly receive, for the purpose of forwarding or transporting, any imitation olive oil, unless it shall be marked as herein before provided, consigned, and by the carrier receipted for, as imitation olive oil; provided, that this act shall not apply to any goods in transit between foreign countries and across the State of California.

SEC. 4. Possession of imitations. No person shall knowingly have in his possession or under his control any imitation olive oil, unless the bottle, can, or vessel, or other package containing the same, be clearly marked as provided in section two of this act.

SEC. 5. Dealers' labels. No person, by himself or another, shall knowingly sell or offer for sale imitation olive oil under the name of or under the pretense that the same is pure olive oil; and no person, by himself or another, shall knowingly sell any imitation olive oil unless he shall inform the purchaser at the time of sale that the same is imitation olive oil, and shall deliver to the purchaser at the time of sale a statement, clearly printed in the English language, which shall refer to the article sold, and which shall contain, in plain type, designated and known as twenty-fourpoint letter type (two-line pica), of a Gothic face, in capital letters, the words “imitation olive oil," and shall give the name and place of business of the manufacturer or compounder.

SEC. 6. Possession evidence of knowledge. Every person having possession or control of any imitation olive oil, which is not marked as required by the provisions of this act, shall be presumed to have known, during the time of such possession or control, that the same was imitation olive oil.

SEC. 7. Imported oils. No person shall expose for sale any oil bearing the semblance of olive oil, manufactured out of the State, and represent that it is manufactured in this State, nor shall offer for sale any such oil upon the receptacle of which is any cut, design, or mark intended to convey the belief that such is manufactured in this State.

SEC. 8. Penalty. Whoever shall violate any of the provisions or sections of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail not less than thirty days nor more than six months, or by both fine and imprisonment, as the court may direct.

SEC. 9. Enforcement. It shall be the duty of the State board of horticulture and the State analyst to enforce the provisions of this act.

SEC. 10. Repeal. An act entitled "An act to regulate the sale of olive oil," approved March tenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, is hereby repealed.

Approved March 23, 1893. Statutes 1893, p. 210; Deering's Penal Code, 1903, Appendix, pp. 638-640.

PERISHABLE PRODUCTS.

SEC. 1. Free public market for perishable products. The board of State harbor commissioners shall, within one year from the passage of this act, set apart upon some convenient portion of the water front of San Francisco a sufficient number of blocks and parts of blocks belonging to the State contiguous to the dock and piers for a free market for the greater portion of all the perishable products of the State of California arriving in San Francisco by land, boat, or other conveyance, including fruit, vegetables, eggs, poultry, grain, dairy products, and fish, and shall permit the sale of such products upon said blocks and portions of blocks of land by or for the account of the producers thereof only, under such regulations as may be prescribed by the said board of harbor commissioners and as the public convenience may require. SEC. 2. Location. The land so set apart for the free public market shall be as convenient as possible to that portion of the city and county of San Francisco in which the principal wholesale trade in perishable products is now carried on, and must be adjacent and contiguous to such piers and docks as are accessible to all water craft ordinarily employed in carrying such products upon the waters of San Francisco Bay and the navigable waters contributing thereto, and vessels so loaded shall have the preference at all times at docking at such wharves and piers contiguous to said lands over other vessels not so loaded.

SEC. 3. Regulations by harbor commissioners. Docking room at said piers shall be assigned without partiality to all vessels engaged in the transportation of said prod

ucts, and the space assigned shall be sufficient to permit such vessels regularly running upon a route to receive and discharge their entire cargoes of such products at the piers aforesaid, if they so desire, subject to the control and direction of the board of State harbor commissioners. And the said board of State harbor commissioners shall construct car tracks to connect the said docks and piers with the land so set apart for the free public market and with the belt railroad. For the use of these tracks the State harbor commissioners shall prescribe such regulations as public convenience may require, and fix the compensation to be paid by the companies making use of them for this purpose.

SEC. 4. Conveyance of products. The harbor commissioners shall suitably inclose said free market and construct suitable tramways and tracks or other devices for the rapid conveyance of perishable products from car or boat or other conveyance to the stalls in the free market, and operate the same.

SEC. 5. Penalties. The harbor commissioners shall assign space within the free market to all producers of perishable products, under such regulations as the harbor commissioners may prescribe. No rental shall be charged for space in the free market. Any violation of this act, or of the regulations made pursuant thereof, shall exclude the person or firm guilty of such violation from the privilege of selling in the free market, during the pleasure of the harbor commissioners, not exceeding one year, in addition to any other penalty which may be incurred thereby.

SEC. 6. Tolls. For the payment of the expenses of said free market the said board of State harbor commissioners may, in their judgment, so adjust tolls upon the said perishable products as shall be delivered into said free market as to provide the necessary revenue; provided, however, that no one shall be compelled to enter into said free public market, and no tolls for the purpose of paying the expenses of said free market shall be levied, assessed, or inflicted upon any products not entering into said free public market; and provided further, that the total of such tolls so levied shall not exceed the total expense of maintaining such free market.

SEC. 7. Officials; salaries. The officers of said free market shall be a superintendent and assistant superintendent, who shall also be secretary, and such other employees as the State board of harbor commissioners may appoint. The salary of all employees of said free market shall be fixed by the State board of harbor commissioners, and be paid out of the general fund of said harbor commission the same as other employees.

SEC. 8. Bonds. All officers and employees of any public market on State property are officers and employees of the State, and shall qualify in the same manner as other employees, and give such bonds as the harbor commissioners may prescribe.

SEC. 9. Appropriation. There is hereby appropriated out of the San Francisco Harbor improvement fund the necessary moneys to enable the harbor commissioners to carry this act into effect, and this appropriation shall have precedence of all other claims on such fund for improvements.

Approved March 2, 1903. Statutes and Amendments to the Codes, 1903, ch. 68, p. 76; Deering's Political Code, 1903, pp. 1096–1098.

SEC. 1. Permit for sale of perishable products; penalty. It shall be unlawful for any person to sell, upon the public wharves or other property belonging to this State, in the city and county of San Francisco, and within the jurisdiction of the board of State harbor commissioners, any fruit, vegetables, poultry, eggs, honey, game, or other produce commonly known, and hereinafter referred to as perishable products, unless such person or the person, firm or corporation, which he may duly represent, shall hold the permit hereinafter described authorizing such sales to be made. Any violation of this act shall be deemed a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars or more than five hundred dollars.

SEC. 2. Removal of products when consignee holds no permit; wharfage. Perishable products consigned to persons, firins or corporations not holding the permit hereinafter described, and delivered by carrier upon any wharf on the San Francisco waterfront, must be removed from said wharf within twenty-four hours after their arrival, and the board of State harbor commissioners must levy and collect on such perishable products, in addition to the regular State tolls, such additional wharfage as they may prescribe, but not less than the amount of the regular tolls, for each twenty-four hours or fraction thereof which such perishable products shall remain upon the wharf.

SEC. 3. Form of application for permit. Upon application of any person, firm or corporation receiving or expecting to receive perishable products to be delivered by carrier upon any wharf on the San Francisco water-front, the board of State harbor commissioners shall issue free of charge to such applicant, a permit authorizing him to sell such products when delivered on the wharves or State property, during the time such perishables are permitted to remain there, under the general regulations prescribed by the commission; provided, nevertheless, that said permit shall not be issued until the applicant shall have signed the application which shall read as follows:

"I (or we), expecting to receive consignments of perishable products to be delivered by carrier on the wharves or other property of the State of California in the city and county of San Francisco, and desiring to dispose of the same before removal, hereby make application for a permit to be valid for one year from the date of issue, to sell perishable products on said wharves or other State property. In consideration of the receipt of such permit, I (or we) promise to faithfully observe all the regulations which are or may be prescribed by the board of the State harbor commissioners in regard to such sales, and in particular I (or we) agree that I (or we) will not, during the life of such permit, be a party to any conspiracy, agreement or understanding whereby I (or we) shall refuse to sell [to] any solvent purchaser or buy from any person whatever, and I (or we) agree that I (or we) will sell, impartially, and at the same prices, to all who desire to purchase for cash, without regard to their business or intended disposition of the products, and will exercise no discrimination whatever between buyers or sellers, by reason of their occupation, affiliations or non-affiliations. I (or we) also agree that in case of violation of this agreement, the board of State harbor commissioners may revoke the permit hereby applied for, whereupon I (or we) agree to surrender the same, and I (or we) agree that the board of State harbor commissioners shall be the sole judges of the fact of such violation, I (or we) having had a hearing in the matter.

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SEC. 4. Form of permit; duration. The permit herein provided for shall be in such form as the board of State harbor commissioners may determine and shall be valid for one year from date of issue and no longer.

SEC. 5. Permits revoked. In case of violation of his agreement by the holder of any permit the board of State harbor commissioners upon a hearing, after giving due notice to all parties concerned, and finding the fact of such violation, shall revoke and cancel the permit, and shall not issue a new permit to the offending party, except upon a new execution of the agreement herein before set forth and the payment of a fee of fifty dollars, and the right to receive a new permit shall rest in the discretion of said board of State harbor commissioners.

SEC. 6. Enforcement by harbor commissioners. The board of State harbor commissioners and all its officials and employees are charged with the enforcement of this act, and shall eject from the wharves or other State property all persons found attempting to make sales in violation of this act. And the board of State harbor

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