Statutes > Iowa Statutes > Title 5 - Agriculture > Subtitle 4 - Agriculture-Related products and Activities > CHAPTER 190C - ORGANIC AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS > 190C.26 - SELLING, LABELING, OR REPRESENTING AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS AS ORGANIC -- PENALTIES.

190C.26 - SELLING, LABELING, OR REPRESENTING AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS AS ORGANIC -- PENALTIES.

        190C.26  SELLING, LABELING, OR REPRESENTING
      AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS AS ORGANIC -- PENALTIES.
         A person shall not knowingly sell, label, or represent an
      agricultural product as organic, except in accordance with this
      chapter.  A person who violates this section shall be subject to a
      civil penalty of not more than ten thousand dollars.  Civil penalties
      shall be assessed by the district court in an action initiated by the
      department or attorney general as provided in section 190C.21.
      Unless prohibited by the national organic program, each day that the
      violation continues constitutes a separate violation.  Civil
      penalties collected under this section shall be deposited in the
      general fund of the state.
         Section History: Recent Form
         98 Acts, ch 1205, §16, 20; 2003 Acts, ch 104, §18, 21