The commissioner may issue and enforce a written or printed "stop sale, use or removal" order to the owner or custodian of any lot of soil or plant amendment and to hold at a designated place, when the commissioner finds said soil or plant amendment is offered or exposed for sale in violation of any of the provisions of this chapter, until the law has been complied with and said soil or plant amendment is released in writing by the commissioner, or said violation has been otherwise legally disposed of by written authority. The commissioner shall release the soil or plant amendment so withdrawn when the requirements of the provisions of the chapter have been complied with and all costs and expenses incurred in connection with the withdrawal from sale have been paid.