In an act "providing for the control of the Japanese beetle," approved on March 11, 1938, the legislature noted that the beetle "has only been discovered in the State of Kentucky this year" and that "an emergency is declared to exist." The act conferred "certain powers and duties" on the entomologist of the Agricultural Experiment Station. He and his assistants shall have "free access upon previous application, within reasonable hours to any premises and containers for purposes of trapping beetles, inspecting for beetles, or treating the premises for the control of the Japanese beetle." The penalty for interfering with this control effort was to be fines of up to one hundred dollars or imprisonment for up to ten days or "both fine and imprisonment at the discretion of the court."
University of Kentucky Experiment Station, Fayette County. Frank C. Dunn Collection, Kentucky Historical Society Collections.
