(a) Each person holding a Commercial Feed Manufacturing Permit, a Commercial Feed Distributor Permit, and every registrant, except those persons exempted in subsection (b) of this section, shall report the number of tons of commercial feed distributed and pay an inspection fee on all feed distributed, except no inspection fee shall be due on:

(1) Commercial feed, if the payment was made by a previous distributor.

(2) Customer-formula feeds or commercial feeds manufactured in this state, if the inspection fee was paid on the commercial feed or all the feed ingredients used as ingredients therein. For the purpose of this exemption, the sale of the feed ingredients used in customer-formula feeds are considered to have taken place before the processing of these items.

(3) Commercial feeds or commercial feeds manufactured in this state which are subsequently used as ingredients in the continuing manufacture of commercial feeds in which the end product is registered.

(4) Commercial feed supplied to a poultry contract feeder.

(5) Commercial feed in packages of ten pounds or less.

(6) Pet food or specialty pet food.

(7) Commercial feed, where the inspection fee was paid during a previous quarter and is offered for sale in the current quarter.

(b) Each person holding a Commercial Feed Manufacturing Permit, a Commercial Feed Distributor Permit, or a registrant, except those persons: (1) Exclusively distributing or manufacturing pet food or specialty pet food; or (2) exclusively distributing or manufacturing commercial feed in packages of ten pounds or less, shall file a semiannual statement under oath before the thirty-first day of January and July of each year. The statement shall include the number of net tons of commercial feeds and feed ingredients manufactured or first distributed in this state during the preceding six-month period.

Each report shall be accompanied by an inspection fee at the rate of 35¢ per ton on commercial feed and feed ingredients with the minimum inspection fee being $10 each statement. The minimum fee is waived if the total amount of the calculated inspection fee due is $2 or less. Such fees become effective on July 1, 1991.

Inspection fees which are due and payable and not remitted to the commissioner within fifteen days following the due date shall be assessed a penalty of ten percent of the amount due, except that semiannual reports with no fees due received fifteen days after the due date shall be assessed a penalty of $10. The assessment of this penalty fee shall not prevent the commissioner from taking other actions as provided in this chapter.

(c) All persons must keep accurate records, as may be necessary or required by the commissioner, to indicate the tonnage of commercial feed distributed in this state.