| (a) 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.
(b) The Department is authorized to seize and treat
or destroy or order to be treated or destroyed, any regulated article:
(1) that is found to be infested with the quarantined
pest; or,
(2) regardless of whether infected or not, that is
transported within, out of, or through the quarantined area in violation
of this subchapter.
(c) Regulated articles seized pursuant to any Department
order shall be destroyed at the owner's expense under the supervision
of a Department inspector.
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