N.Y. Racing, Pari-Mutuel Wagering and Breeding Law § 250: Power of commission to impose penalties

§ 250. Power of commission to impose penalties. The commission, in

addition to its power to suspend or revoke occupational licenses,

licenses to conduct running races and race meetings or steeplechases and

steeplechase meetings and licenses to conduct pari-mutuel betting at a

race course or race meeting for running races or steeplechases issued by

the commission, is authorized to impose civil penalties upon any such

licensee or franchisee for a violation of any provision of this chapter

or the rules and regulations promulgated pursuant thereto, not exceeding

the amounts set forth in section one hundred sixteen of this chapter,

which penalties shall be paid into the state treasury. Each day upon

which such violation continues may be considered by the commission as a

separate violation in assessing the amount of civil penalty to be

imposed. Any penalty so imposed shall be sued for by the attorney

general in the name of the people of the state of New York, if so

directed by the commission. The amount of the penalty collected by the

commission or recovered in any such action, or paid to the commission

upon a compromise as hereinafter provided, shall be paid by the

commission into the state treasury and credited to the general fund. The

commission, for cause shown and in its discretion, may extend the time

for the payment of such penalty and, by compromise may accept less than

the amount of such penalty as imposed in settlement thereof. The powers

granted by this section shall not be affected by the circumstances that

any such license has expired by its terms prior to the imposition of

such penalty.