N.Y. General Business Law § 271: Penalty and action to recover

§ 271. Penalty and action to recover. Any person violating any

provision of this article shall forfeit to such owner or dealer or

shipper or his agent the sum of fifty dollars for every such violation,

and an action may be brought therefor in the name of any such agent

without joining the real party in interest that he represents, and in

any such action brought for any such violation different persons may be

joined as plaintiffs, whether jointly or severally interested therein,

and different persons may be joined as defendants therein who have

severally violated any such provisions, and a recovery may be had in

favor of one or more of such plaintiffs against one or more of such

defendants.

Such action may be brought in a court of record having jurisdiction

thereof, and the place of trial thereof shall in such case be laid in

the county where the defendant resides at the time of the commencement

thereof, or it may be brought in a justice court or other court not of

record having similar jurisdiction, in the town, city or county for

which such court is constituted and in which the defendant resides at

the time of the commencement of the action. Any such action must be

begun within one year after the cause of action accrued.

The civil court of the city of New York shall have jurisdiction over

actions brought under the provisions of this article against residents

of said city and such court and the judges thereof shall in such actions

have and exercise all the powers now conferred by said article on courts

not of record, and the sheriff of the city of New York and the marshals

of said city shall have to like extent the powers of constables provided

in said article.