N.Y. Labor Law § 882: Penalties

§ 882. Penalties. 1. Civil penalty. Any employer who fails to comply

with the provisions of this article shall be liable for a civil penalty

not to exceed ten thousand dollars in addition to any other damages for

which an employer may be liable pursuant to any other provision of law.

The attorney general may bring an action in the supreme court against

any person or persons alleged to have violated the provisions of this

article. In any such action the supreme court shall have jurisdiction to

restrain violations of this article and to levy appropriate penalties.

Any penalty assessed for the violation of any of the provisions of this

article shall be payable to the commissioner of health to be utilized

for the purposes of environmental health pursuant to section forty-eight

hundred two of the public health law.

2. Criminal penalty. Any person who willfully and intentionally

violates the provisions of this article is guilty of a misdemeanor and

upon conviction shall be punished, for a first offense, by a fine of not

more than five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment for not more than

thirty days or by both such fine and imprisonment; for a subsequent

offense by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars, or by

imprisonment for not more than ninety days, or by both such fine and

imprisonment.