(a) Payment of fees may be made electronically or by check or money order. All checks or money orders remitted for the payment of any fees specified in Subchapter C of the Act, shall be made payable to the "Texas Apiary Inspection Service." Fees shall be collected in the same manner that other fees of the Texas A&M AgriLife Research agency are collected.
(b) In the event of delinquent payment for such fees, the Chief Apiary Inspector may:
  (1) sue to collect the delinquent fee;
  (2) revoke or rescind the permit or registration; and/or
  (3) require a $10 penalty for delinquent payment from the registrant or permittee.

Source Note: The provisions of this §71.22 adopted to be effective December 31, 1979, 4 TexReg 4607; amended to be effective November 9, 1983, 8 TexReg 4482; amended to be effective December 29, 2020, 45 TexReg 9411