Except as otherwise provided in this article, if any shipment of plants or any other things in violation of this chapter or any quarantine which has been established, is brought into this state and it is found to be infested or infected, or there is reasonable cause to believe that it may be infested or infected, with any pest, the shipment shall be immediately destroyed by, or under the supervision of, the officer who inspects it, at the expense of the owner or bailee of the shipment.
(Added by renumbering Section 6461 by Stats. 1992, Ch. 29, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 1993.)