(a) The Director of the State Plant Board may appoint deputy inspectors, employees, and agents to assist in carrying out the provisions of this subchapter.
(b)
(1) The director may require any employee or agent and any inspector licensed under this subchapter to be covered by a good and sufficient bond, payable to the state, conditional upon the faithful performance of each employee, agent, or licensed inspector of his or her duties as an employee, agent, or licensed inspector.
(2) Any person injured by the failure of an employee, agent, or licensed inspector faithfully to perform such duties shall be entitled to sue on the bond in his or her own name in any court of competent jurisdiction for the recovery of such damages as he or she may have sustained by reason of that failure.