Each license shall must plainly state the name and business address or addresses of the licensee and shall must be posted in a conspicuous place in each office where the business is transacted. The initial fee for each license shall be $80 is $100 annually. Such license shall may be automatically renewed for successive periods of one year each upon payment of the renewal fee which shall be $80 and the submission of an application demonstrating that the applicant continues to meet the requirements for licensing, including filing proof of financial responsibility. A license or license renewal issued expires on the 30th day of June following the date of issuance.__The department is not required to provide notice and opportunity for a hearing as provided in the Maine Administrative Procedure Act when granting a license renewal. If the licensee desires to carry on business in more than one place within the State, he the licensee shall procure additional copies of the license, certified by the commissioner, for each place where the business is to be conducted. The fee for each such additional certification shall be $80 is $100. In the event a person required to be licensed under this section fails to renew that person's license or submit the annual proof of financial responsibility, the department shall promptly provide notice to members of the potato producing industry through the Maine Potato Board and an agricultural bargaining council.

All fees collected under this Article shall must be paid forthwith to the Treasurer of State and credited to the Department of Agriculture, Food and Rural Resources for the administration of this Article and other expenses incident to the administration of said the department, and shall must be expended by the said commissioner for the purposes for which said the department is created. If any of such fees are not expended during the year in which they are collected, the unexpended balance shall does not lapse, but shall must be carried as a continuing account and available for the purposes specified until expended.

Sec. 2. 7 MRSA §1017, sub-§1, as amended by PL 1997, c. 606, §10 and PL 1999, c. 547, Pt. B, §78 and affected by §80, is further amended to read: