(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.