N.Y. General Business Law § 342-a: Recovery of civil penalty by attorney-general

§ 342-a. Recovery of civil penalty by attorney-general. In lieu of any

penalty otherwise prescribed for a violation of a provision of this

article and in addition to an action pursuant to section three hundred

forty-two of this article, the attorney-general may bring an action in

the name and in behalf of the people of the state against any person,

trustee, director, manager or other officer or agent of a corporation,

or against a corporation, foreign or domestic, to recover a penalty in

the sum specified in section three hundred forty-one of this article for

the doing in this state of any act herein declared to be illegal, or any

act in, toward or for the making or consummation of any contract,

agreement, arrangement or combination herein prohibited, wherever the

same may have been made. The action must be brought within three years

after the commission of the act upon which it is based.