N.Y. General Business Law § 307: Penalties and the enforcement thereof

§ 307. Penalties and the enforcement thereof. Every person violating

the provisions of this article, relating to the test for refined

petroleum and oil, shall forfeit to the people of the state the sum of

five hundred dollars for each violation.

Every person violating any provision of this article, relating to the

storage or keeping for sale of any article, substance or product herein

specified, shall forfeit to the people of the state, the sum of two

hundred and fifty dollars for each day and part of a day that such

violation continues.

Every person violating any provisions of this article, relating to the

incumbering of any sidewalk or street, shall forfeit the sum of

twenty-five dollars for each day and part of a day that such violation

continues, to be paid, if in a city or village, to such city or village,

and elsewhere, to the town in which such violation occurs.

The mayor and common council of every city or other proper authorities

thereof, shall, by ordinance or resolution, provide for the proper

enforcement of the provisions of the preceding sections of this article,

and in every such city, the moneys collected by the city as penalties

for the violation of any such ordinance or resolution or of any of such

provisions, shall be applied to the support of the poor therein, except

in Brooklyn, where they shall be paid into the widows and orphans' fund

of the fire department, and except in Buffalo, where they shall be paid

to the treasurer of the firemen's benevolent association of the city for

its use and benefit.