(505 ILCS 90/22) (from Ch. 5, par. 82)
Sec. 22.
Any person who shall
violate any of the provisions of this Act with reference to the sale,
shipment, transportation, receipt or delivery of nursery stock without
inspection or certificate, or with reference to treatment of nursery stock,
plants, plant products or other property; or who shall forge, counterfeit,
deface, alter, destroy or wrongfully use a certificate belonging to another
person or
fail to obtain a certificate of inspection or nursery dealer's certificate; or who shall
use a certificate after it has been suspended or revoked or has expired; or who shall
transport, receive or convey any article into the State of Illinois in
violation of any proclamation of the Governor or regulation of the
Department or any Federal quarantine, or who, having
received the same directly or indirectly shall refuse to dispose of the
same as the Department may direct; or who shall violate any
proclamation of the Governor or quarantine or rule, regulation or order of
the Department as provided for in this Act; or who shall
maintain a nuisance after receiving notice from the Department to abate
the same shall be
adjudged guilty of a business offense and shall be subject
to a fine of not less than $1,000 nor more than $10,000. The fines
collected under this Act
shall be paid to the Department and by it paid into the
Pesticide Control Fund, Director as Trustee, to be used for the
administration of this Act.
Any person who impedes, obstructs, hinders or otherwise prevents or
attempts to prevent the Director in the performance of official duties
shall be guilty of a Class B misdemeanor for the first violation and guilty
of a Class A misdemeanor for subsequent violations. Any person using
physical force against the Director in the performance of official duties
shall be guilty of a Class 4 felony.
(Source: P.A. 85-324.)
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