(a) A person who fails to comply with quarantine restrictions or requirements or a Department order relating to the quarantine is subject to administrative or civil penalties up to $10,000 per day for any violation of the order and to the assessment of costs for any treatment or destruction that must be performed by the Department in the absence of such compliance.
(b) The Department is authorized to seize and treat or destroy or order to be treated or destroyed, any regulated article:
  (1) that is found to be infested with the quarantined pest; or,
  (2) regardless of whether infected or not, that is transported within, out of, or through the quarantined area in violation of this subchapter.
(c) Regulated articles seized pursuant to any Department order shall be destroyed at the owner's expense under the supervision of a Department inspector.

Source Note: The provisions of this §19.406 adopted to be effective January 6, 2020, 45 TexReg 119