In addition to such civil penalty, any person that knowingly exceeds any quota or allotment or marketable percentage fixed for him under any marketing order, regulation, or rule and regulation, issued by the director pursuant to such marketing order, shall forfeit to this state a sum equal to the current market value of such excess (or three times such amount, in the discretion of the court) which forfeiture may be recoverable in a civil suit which is brought in the name of this state. Any money which is recovered pursuant to this section shall be deposited in accordance with Section 58937.
(Enacted by Stats. 1967, Ch. 15.)