Penalties.

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(A) A person who violates Section 46-10-60 or who alters, forges, counterfeits, or uses without authority a certificate, a permit, or other document provided for in this chapter is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, must be fined not more than one thousand dollars or imprisoned not more than one year, or both, in the discretion of the court.

(B) A person who knowingly moves a regulated article into this State from a quarantined area of another state which has not been treated or handled under provisions of the quarantine and regulations in effect at the point of origin is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, must be punished as in subsection (A).

HISTORY: 1976 Act No. 649 Section 9; 1983 Act No. 36 Section 7; 1985 Act No. 13, Section 1; 1991 Act No. 66, Section 1, eff May 22, 1991; 2017 Act No. 31 (S.570), Section 3, eff May 10, 2017.

Effect of Amendment

2017 Act No. 31, Section 3, in (A), deleted "or in regulations of the commission" following "in this chapter".


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