882. Penalties. 1. Civil penalty. Any employer who fails to comply with the provisions of this article shall be liable for a civil penalty not to exceed ten thousand dollars in addition to any other damages for which an employer may be liable pursuant to any other provision of law. The attorney general may bring an action in the supreme court against any person or persons alleged to have violated the provisions of this article. In any such action the supreme court shall have jurisdiction to restrain violations of this article and to levy appropriate penalties. Any penalty assessed for the violation of any of the provisions of this article shall be payable to the commissioner of health to be utilized for the purposes of environmental health pursuant to section forty-eight hundred two of the public health law.
2. Criminal penalty. Any person who willfully and intentionally violates the provisions of this article is guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be punished, for a first offense, by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment for not more than thirty days or by both such fine and imprisonment; for a subsequent offense by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars, or by imprisonment for not more than ninety days, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
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