(a) The Director of the State Plant Board may designate any competent inspector or other employee or agent of the State Plant Board and, upon satisfactory evidence of competency, may license any other person, and charge and collect a reasonable fee for the license, to inspect or classify agricultural products in accordance with such regulations as the board may prescribe at such places as the volume of business may be found to warrant the furnishing of inspection service, at the request of persons having an interest in products and to ascertain and certify the grade, classification, quality, or condition thereof, and such other pertinent facts as the board may require.
(b) (1) The board is authorized to fix, assess, and collect or cause to be collected fees for services when they are performed by inspectors, employees, or agents of the board.
(2) Licensed inspectors may charge and collect as compensation for services only such fees as may be approved by the board.
(c) (1) The director may suspend or revoke any license whenever, after an opportunity for hearing has been afforded to the licensee, the director shall determine that the licensee is incompetent, or has knowingly or carelessly failed to grade or classify any agricultural product in accordance with such standards, or has knowingly or carelessly failed to correctly certify the grade, classification, quality, or condition of any agricultural product, or has violated any provision of this subchapter, or of the regulations made pursuant thereto.
(2) Pending investigations, the director may suspend a licensee temporarily without a hearing.
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