N.Y. Agriculture & Markets Law § 40: Penalty for violation of rule or order

§ 40. Penalty for violation of rule or order. Every person, association

or corporation and all agents, officers and employees thereof, shall

obey every order made as provided in this chapter, so long as such order

shall be in force. A person, association or corporation who shall fail

by himself, itself or through his or its agents, officers and employees,

to obey any order of the commissioner, or who shall violate any rule of

the department shall be subject to a penalty not exceeding the sum of

four hundred dollars for each and every first offense, and a penalty not

exceeding the sum of eight hundred dollars for a second and each

subsequent offense. Every violation of such order, or of the rules of

the department, shall be a separate and distinct offense, and in case of

a continuing violation, every day's continuance thereof shall be a

separate and distinct offense.