190C.21 - GENERAL ENFORCEMENT.
190C.21 GENERAL ENFORCEMENT.
1. The department acting as a state certifying agent and on
behalf of the secretary who elects to act as the state organic
program's governing state official shall enforce this chapter.
2. To the extent authorized by the national organic program, the
attorney general shall assist the department in enforcing this
chapter. The department or the attorney general may commence legal
proceedings in district court to enforce a provision of this chapter.
If the attorney general assists the department under this section,
the attorney general may commence the legal proceedings at the
request of the department or upon the attorney general's own
initiative.
3. This chapter does not require the department or attorney
general to institute a proceeding for a minor violation if the
department or attorney general concludes that the public interest
will be best served by a suitable notice of warning in writing. Section History: Recent Form
98 Acts, ch 1205, §11, 20; 2003 Acts, ch 104, §12, 21
Referred to in § 190C.3, 190C.26