Section 4-42-3 - Provisions for enforcement, penalties, and prosecution(a) Any authorized inspector of the department, during normal business hours, may enter any place or conveyance where flowers and foliage are processed, packed, stored, delivered for shipment, loaded, shipped, or transported and may take for inspection representative samples of these flowers and foliage and the containers used to ship these items, to determine if the flowers and foliage and the shipping containers meet the requirements of sections 4-42-1 and 4-42-2.(b) Any authorized inspector of the department, upon determining that the requirements of sections 4-42-1 and 4-42-2 are being violated, may place stop sale notices on all flowers and foliage that are in violation. Flowers and foliage affected by stop sale notices shall not be moved until the stop sale notices have been removed by an authorized inspector of the department. No person shall remove, deface, or otherwise tamper with any stop sale notice except upon authorization of an authorized inspector of the department.
(c) Any person who violates any provision of this chapter may be. subject to the actions, procedures, and penalties provided in section 147-37, Hawaii Revised Statutes.[Eff. 5/29/81; am and comp JAN 16 1984] (Auth: HRS § 147-32) (Imp: HRS §§ 147-34 and 147-37)