As Amended
SEC. 69-43-7. Penalties for failure to file report or pay assessment [Repealed effective July 1, 2006].
(1) Any processor who fails to file a report or to pay any assessment within the time required by the department shall forfeit to the department a penalty of five percent (5%) of the assessment determined to be due, plus one percent (1%) of such amount for each month of delay or fraction thereof after the first month after such report was required to be filed or such assessment became due. The penalty shall be paid to the department and shall be disposed of by it in the same manner as funds derived from the payment of the assessment imposed herein.
(2) The department shall collect the penalties levied herein, together with the delinquent assessment, by any or all of the following methods:
(a) By voluntary payment by the person liable.
(b) By legal proceedings instituted in a court of competent jurisdiction.
(3) Any person required to collect the assessment provided for in this chapter who fails to remit the assessment or who refuses to allow full inspection of the premises or such books, records or other documents relating to the liability of such person for the assessment herein imposed, or who shall hinder or in any delay or prevent such inspection, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be punished by a fine not to exceed One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00) or by imprisonment not to exceed one (1) year, or both.
SOURCES: 1997 Laws, Chapter 375, Sec. 4, HB1193, Effective July 1, 1997. Reenacted by Laws 2000, Ch. 331, Sec. 4, HB244; Reenacted without change, Laws, 2004, ch. 383, § 4, HB 281, eff from and after July 1, 2004.
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