2018 California Code
Health and Safety Code - HSC
DIVISION 20 - MISCELLANEOUS HEALTH AND SAFETY PROVISIONS
CHAPTER 1.4 - Human Cloning
Section 24187.
For violations of Section 24185, the State Director of Health Services may, after appropriate notice and opportunity for hearing, by order, levy administrative penalties as follows:
(a) If the violator is a corporation, firm, clinic, hospital, laboratory, or research facility, by a civil penalty of not more than one million dollars ($1,000,000) or the applicable amount under subdivision (c), whichever is greater.
(b) If the violator is an individual, by a civil penalty of not more than two hundred fifty thousand dollars ($250,000) or the applicable amount under subdivision (c), whichever is greater.
(c) If any violator derives pecuniary gain from a violation of this section, the violator may be assessed a civil penalty of not more than an amount equal to the amount of the gross gain multiplied by two.
(d) The administrative penalties shall be paid to the General Fund.
(Added by Stats. 1997, Ch. 688, Sec. 5. Effective January 1, 1998.)
