If a fertilizer or soil conditioner in the possession of the consumer is found by the department to be short in weight or other measure prescribed by the board, the registrant of the fertilizer or soil conditioner shall, within thirty days after official notice from the department, pay to the consumer a penalty equal to four times the value of the actual shortage.
History: 1953 Comp., § 45-13-24, enacted by Laws 1963, ch. 184, § 14; 1975, ch. 181, § 14; 2013, ch. 112, § 13.
ANNOTATIONSThe 2013 amendment, effective June 14, 2013, imposed the short weight penalty for all fertilizers; and in two places, deleted "commercial" before "fertilizer".
Am. Jur. 2d, A.L.R. and C.J.S. references. — 3 C.J.S. Agriculture § 80.