(505 ILCS 90/10) (from Ch. 5, par. 70)
Sec. 10.
If it is found that any certificate issued or approved by the
Department is being used in connection with nursery stock or
other plants which have not been inspected, or which are infested with
insect pests or infected with plant diseases, or which are being sold,
delivered or distributed without treatment being given or other precautionary measures
prescribed by the Department being observed by the owner, or
with the knowledge of the owner, is being used by persons other than the
one to whom it was issued, without permission of the Department, the Director
may require the owner of such
certificate to appear before him, on a date specified, for a hearing to
show cause why his certificate should not be suspended or revoked. If, after such
hearing, the Director finds that such certificate has been
wrongfully used in one or more of the ways specified in this Act, or if
the owner of such certificate fails to appear at such hearing, he may issue
an order suspending or revoking such certificate, and the use of such
certificate, after
it has been suspended or revoked shall be unlawful, and shall subject
the owner thereof
to the penalty prescribed in this Act. The Department may withhold a certificate
of inspection from any person
applying for the same if such person fails to comply with the requirements
of the Department with reference to freeing his nursery and
premises of insect pests and plant diseases and may refuse to
certify a nursery if the same, for lack of care or from neglect, is in such
condition that it cannot be adequately inspected.
The Department may refuse to issue or may suspend the
certificate of any person who fails to file a return, or to pay the tax,
penalty or interest shown in a filed return, or to pay any final assessment
of tax, penalty or interest, as required by any tax Act administered by the
Illinois Department of Revenue, until such time as the requirements of any
such tax Act are satisfied.
(Source: P.A. 85-324.)
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