{"data":{"id":"us-ca/fac-56631","jurisdiction":"us-ca","citation":"FAC § 56631","heading":"","body":"(a) Except as specified in Section 56632, any misdemeanor which is prescribed in this article is punishable by a fine of not less than five hundred dollars ($500) or more than five thousand dollars ($5,000), by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than one year, or by both the fine and imprisonment.\n(b) For a violation of the offense described in subdivision (a), the department may recover investigative costs, excluding attorneys’ fees and administrative overhead, for those charges where there has been a conviction in a court of law, or a court-supervised settlement has been reached. Nothing in this section allows the department to recover investigative costs for an administrative licensing action or any action that has not been filed in a court of law.\n(c) Any person or entity responsible for investigative costs under this section shall be allowed to audit the department’s investigative costs. The audit must be performed by a third-party certified public accountant and paid for by the person or entity requesting the audit. The department shall promulgate regulations to implement this subdivision by June 1, 2002.","path":["Food and Agricultural Code - FAC","DIVISION 20. PROCESSORS, STORERS, DEALERS, AND DISTRIBUTORS OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS [54001. - 57700.]","CHAPTER 7. Produce Dealers [56101. - 56652.]","ARTICLE 19. Criminal Penalties [56631. - 56639.]"],"source_url":"https://downloads.leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/pubinfo_2025.zip","current_through":"2026-09-13","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T05:56:33Z","sha256":"6b499312a19d431228e0daa54c24fb3b64cd14e088cc126f06670bdb056cd49d","source_id":"us-ca","stale":false,"prev":"us-ca/fac-56623","next":"us-ca/fac-56632"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}