§8-17-93. Penalty for violation of division; revocation of permits.

(a) Any person who sells, offers for sale, stores, or uses any petroleum product in the state which is below the legal standard, who makes a false statement or certificate as to the quantity or standard of such petroleum product, sells, offers for sale, stores, or uses any petroleum product without having procured a permit as required by this division, fails to make any report to the Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries as required by this division, makes a false certificate of the number of gallons of such petroleum product sold, stored or used during the preceding month or who otherwise violates or fails to comply with the provisions of this division shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

(b) The Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries may revoke the permit of any person found upon investigation to have sold, offered for sale, stored, or used any petroleum product below the minimum standards adopted by the Board of Agriculture and Industries pursuant to the provisions of this division or who has failed or refused, after 10 days' notice by registered, or certified, mail of such delinquency, to pay the inspection fee required by this division.

(c) The holder of any permit that may be revoked pursuant to the provisions of this section shall have the right, upon request of such holder, to a hearing before the Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries, at which such holder may appear personally or by legal representative, and he may appeal from the decision of the commissioner by filing in the Circuit Court of Montgomery County a petition for an injunction against the commissioner. In the event such an injunction is sought, sufficient bond shall be filed with the court and conditioned as the law now provides relative to injunction bonds. The findings of the commissioner shall be presumed to be correct.

(Acts 1971, No. 1403, p. 2363, §12; Acts 1971, 3rd Ex. Sess., No. 339, p. 4643, §5.)