A person who fails to comply with quarantine restrictions or
requirements or a department order relating to the quarantine is subject
to administrative or civil penalties up to $10,000 per day for any
violation of the order and to the assessment of costs for any treatment
or destruction that must be performed by the department in the absence
of such compliance. Additionally, the department is authorized to
seize and treat or destroy, or order to be treated or destroyed, any
quarantined article that is found to be infested with the quarantined
pest or, regardless of whether infected or not, transported within,
out of, or through the quarantined area in violation of this subchapter.
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