A. The board of directors may request the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food, and Forestry to provide for the collection of the assessment or for other enforcement action necessary as determined by the board of directors for violations of the Boll Weevil Eradication Act and for collection of any administrative penalty or fine from any person who is determined to have violated any provision of the Boll Weevil Eradication Act.
B. Notwithstanding any other provision of the law, in an enforcement action brought by the board of directors, the board of directors may collect, in addition to the assessment, a fine from any person or cotton gin that is determined to have violated any provision of the Boll Weevil Eradication Act.
C. Failure by any person to comply with any provisions of the Boll Weevil Eradication Act may result in assessment of an administrative penalty or fine of not less than One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) and not more than Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000.00) for each violation.
D. Any administrative penalty or fine collected pursuant to the provisions of this section shall be deposited in the Boll Weevil Eradication Fund; provided, the Department shall be reimbursed for any costs incurred by the Department in the enforcement of this section.
Added by Laws 1993, c. 198, § 11, eff. Sept. 1, 1993. Amended by Laws 2000, c. 231, § 5, emerg. eff. May 24, 2000; Laws 2005, c. 93, § 4, eff Nov. 1, 2005; Laws 2006, c. 211, § 11, eff. Nov. 1, 2006; Laws 2007, c. 157, § 2, eff. Nov. 1, 2007.