N.Y. Agriculture & Markets Law § 39: Penalties for violation of chapter or other laws

§ 39. Penalties for violation of chapter or other laws. Every person

violating any of the provisions of this chapter, or of any other law the

enforcement of which is within the jurisdiction of the department shall,

except where other penalties are hereinafter prescribed, be subject to a

penalty in the sum of not more than six hundred dollars for the first

violation, nor more than one thousand two hundred dollars for the second

and each subsequent violation and provided further, however, that for a

violation of subdivision thirteen or fifteen of section two hundred of

this chapter, the minimum penalty shall be five hundred dollars and the

maximum penalty shall be one thousand dollars and that for the second

and subsequent offenses such person may also be subject to an

administrative order suspending the manufacture and/or sale of such

confectionery for a period of time up to three months for each such

violation. When such violation consists of the manufacture or production

of any prohibited article, each day during which or any part of which

such manufacture or production is carried on or continued, shall be

deemed a separate violation. When the violation consists of the sale, or

the offering or exposing for sale or exchange of any prohibited article

or substance, the sale of each one of several packages shall constitute

a separate violation, and each day on which any such article or

substance is offered or exposed for sale or exchange shall constitute a

separate violation. If the sale be of milk and it be in cans, bottles or

containers of any kind and if the milk in any one of such containers be

adulterated, it shall be deemed a violation whether such vendor be

selling all the milk in all of his containers to one person or not. When

the use of any such article or substance is prohibited, each day during

which or any part of which such article or substance is so used or

furnished for use, shall constitute a separate violation, and the

furnishing of the same for use to each person to whom the same may be

furnished shall constitute a separate violation. When the storage of any

article is prohibited beyond a certain period, each day during which or

any part of which any article is so stored beyond the period provided

for by this chapter, shall constitute a separate violation. A right of

action for the recovery of, or a liability for, penalties incurred as

provided in this chapter, or in any other law the enforcement of which

is within the jurisdiction of the department, may be released, settled

or compromised before the matter is referred to the attorney general as

provided in section forty-four of this article, and thereafter may be

released, settled or compromised by the attorney general, either before

or after an action is brought to recover such penalties.