§141-5 Charges for inspection, etc. The department of agriculture shall, with the approval of the governor, adopt a reasonable scale of charges, which may be changed from time to time, for the inspection, disinfection, fumigation, and quarantine, authorized, required, or permitted by this chapter or chapter 142 or 150. Certificates and permits in such chapters provided for concerning articles or animals imported, or proposed to be imported, into the State, and the charges so provided for, shall be paid for in advance before any certificate or permit is delivered, or any of such articles or animals are permitted to be landed. If thereafter further expense is incurred in the inspection, treatment, or quarantine of any of such articles or animals, the charges therefor shall be paid before any of such articles or animals shall be delivered. [L 1903, c 44, §15; am L 1905, c 82, §2; RL 1925, §642; RL 1935, §238; RL 1945, §1364; RL 1955, §18-16; am L Sp 1959 2d, c 1, §22; am L 1961, c 132, §2; HRS §141-5]