Code of Alabama
Division 1 - Standards and Inspections Generally.
Section 8-17-93 - Penalty for Violation; Revocation of Permits.

(a) Any person who sells, offers for sale, stores, or uses any petroleum product in the state which is below the legal standard, who makes a false statement or certificate as to the quantity or standard of such petroleum product, sells, offers for sale, stores, or uses any petroleum product without having procured a permit as required by Section 8-17-85, fails to make any report to the Revenue Commissioner as required by this article, makes a false certificate of the number of gallons of such petroleum product sold, stored, or used during the preceding month or who otherwise violates or fails to comply with the provisions of this article shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
(b) The Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries may revoke the permit, referenced in Section 8-17-85, of any person found upon investigation to have sold, offered for sale, stored, or used any petroleum product below the minimum standards adopted by the Board of Agriculture and Industries pursuant to the provisions of this article or when the Revenue Commissioner has notified the Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries that the taxpayer has failed or refused, subject to the appeal provisions of Chapter 2A of Title 40, to file the delinquent tax return or to pay the inspection fee required by this article.
(c) The holder of any permit, referenced in Section 8-17-85, that may be revoked pursuant to the provisions of this section shall have the right, upon request of such holder, to a hearing before the Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries, at which such holder may appear personally or by legal representative, and he or she may appeal from the decision of the commissioner by filing in the Circuit Court of Montgomery County a petition for an injunction against the commissioner. In the event such an injunction is sought, sufficient bond shall be filed with the court and conditioned as the law now provides relative to injunction bonds. The findings of the commissioner shall be presumed to be correct.

Structure Code of Alabama

Code of Alabama

Title 8 - Commercial Law and Consumer Protection.

Chapter 17 - Regulation of Certain Goods and Products.

Article 5 - Petroleum Products.

Division 1 - Standards and Inspections Generally.

Section 8-17-80 - Definitions.

Section 8-17-81 - Determination and Adoption of Standards and Methods of Tests; Promulgation of Rules; Effect of Prior Standards.

Section 8-17-82 - Labeling Requirement.

Section 8-17-83 - Adulteration or Lowering of Standard Prohibited.

Section 8-17-84 - Records to Be Kept; Preservation and Inspection of Records; Regulations as to Keeping of Records.

Section 8-17-85 - Examinations and Tests; Permit Required for Sale, Storage, etc.; Permit Application, Fee and Expiration Date; Nonapplicability of Section to Certain Persons.

Section 8-17-86 - Duty to Test Samples; Certificate of Tests.

Section 8-17-87 - Inspection Fee.

Section 8-17-88 - Sale, Storage, etc., of Nonstandard Products Prohibited; Suspension From Sale, Condemnation, etc., of Nonstandard Products.

Section 8-17-89 - Notification; Duty of Importer.

Section 8-17-90 - Driver of Delivery Vehicle to Deliver Invoice.

Section 8-17-91 - Disposition of Funds; Overpayments.

Section 8-17-92 - Injunctive Relief.

Section 8-17-93 - Penalty for Violation; Revocation of Permits.

Section 8-17-94 - Division Not Applicable to Certain Shipments.

Section 8-17-95 - (Effective October 1, 2016) Floor-Stocks Inspection Fee.

Section 8-17-96 - Inspection Fee Permit; Liability of Surety.

Section 8-17-97 - Collection and Payment of Inspection Fee; Filing Requirements; Rulemaking Authority.

Section 8-17-98 - (Effective October 1, 2016) Inspection Fee of Ultimate Consumers Having Submitted Refund Petition.

Section 8-17-99 - Deduction on Monthly Returns.

Section 8-17-100 - (Effective October 1, 2016) Refusal of Inspection Fee Permit; Appeals.

Section 8-17-101 - Cancellation of Inspection Fee Permit.

Section 8-17-102 - Filing of Returns.