166D.16 - ENFORCEMENT -- PENALTY -- CERTIFICATES.

        166D.16  ENFORCEMENT -- PENALTY -- CERTIFICATES.
         1.  The provisions of this chapter including departmental rules
      adopted pursuant to this chapter shall be administered and enforced
      by the department.
         2.  Except as provided in this subsection, a person violating a
      provision of this chapter or any rule adopted pursuant to this
      chapter shall be subject to a civil penalty of at least one hundred
      dollars but not more than one thousand dollars.
         a.  A person who falsifies a certificate of inspection issued
      pursuant to this chapter shall be subject to a civil penalty of not
      more than five thousand dollars for each swine falsified on the
      certificate.  A person shall not be subject to a civil penalty
      totaling more than twenty-five thousand dollars for falsifying a
      certificate, regardless of the number of swine falsified on the
      certificate.
         b.  The person who owns swine when the swine are required to
      be vaccinated under this chapter shall be subject to a civil penalty
      of two dollars for each swine which is not vaccinated as required.
         3.  In addition to any other remedies provided, the department may
      file a petition in the district court seeking an injunction
      restraining any person from violating provisions of this chapter
      including a rule adopted pursuant to this chapter.  
         Section History: Recent Form
         89 Acts, ch 280, § 16; 91 Acts, ch 32, § 4; 92 Acts, ch 1163, §
      43; 2000 Acts, ch 1110, §21, 25
         Referred to in § 163.61