RS 1057.5 - Penalties
A. Any person who violates any of the provisions of R.S. 40:1057.3 or R.S. 40:1057.4, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall on conviction thereof be subject to a fine of not more than five hundred dollars or to imprisonment for not more than ninety days, or both, but for offenses committed with intent to defraud or mislead, or for second and subsequent offenses, the penalty shall be imprisonment for not more than one year, or a fine of not more than three thousand dollars, or both such imprisonment and fine.
B. No person shall be subject to the penalties of Subsection (A) of this Section, (a) for having violated R.S. 40:1057.4(3), if the receipt, delivery, or proffered delivery of the aerosol product was made in good faith, unless he refuses to furnish, on request of an officer or employee duly designated by the secretary, the name and address of the person from whom he purchased or received such hazardous aerosol, and copies of all documents, if any there be, pertaining to the delivery of the hazardous aerosol to him; or (b) for having violated R.S. 40:1057.4(1), if he establishes a guarantee or undertaking signed by and containing the name and address of the person residing in the United States from whom he received in good faith the hazardous aerosol, to the effect that the hazardous aerosol is not a misbranded hazardous or a banned hazardous aerosol within the meaning of those terms in this Chapter.
Added by Acts 1975, No. 590, §1, eff. July 17, 1975. Amended by Acts 1978, No. 786, §5, eff. July 17, 1978.