Section 55922 Of Article 19. Civil Remedies And Penalties From California Food And Agricultural Code >> Division 20. >> Chapter 6. >> Article 19.
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. (a) Any person that violates any provision of this chapter
is liable civilly in the sum of not less than five hundred dollars
($500) or more than one thousand dollars ($1,000) for each violation,
to be recovered in an action by the secretary in any court of
competent jurisdiction. All sums which are recovered under this
section shall be deposited in the State Treasury to the credit of the
Department of Food and Agriculture Fund.
(b) The department may recover investigative costs, excluding
attorney's fees and administrative overhead, for those charges where
there has been a conviction in a court of law, or a court-supervised
settlement has been reached. Nothing in this section allows the
department to recover investigative costs for an administrative
licensing action or any action that has not been filed in a court of
law.
(c) Any person or entity responsible for investigative costs under
this section shall be allowed to audit the department's
investigative costs. The audit shall be performed by a third-party
certified public accountant and paid for by the person or entity
requesting the audit. The department shall promulgate regulations to
implement this subdivision by June 1, 2002.