2006 New York Code - Penalties.



 
    §  238.  Penalties.  1. Any contractor or subcontractor who shall upon
  his oath verify any statement required to be filed  under  this  article
  which  is  known  by  him  to  be  false  shall be guilty of perjury and
  punishable as provided by the penal law.
    2. When a contract  for  service  work  contains  as  part  thereof  a
  schedule  of  wages as provided for in this article, any contractor who,
  after entering  into  such  contract,  and  any  subcontractor  of  such
  contractor who fails to pay to any service employee the wages stipulated
  in  such  wage  schedule  is guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction
  shall be punished for a first offense by a fine of five hundred  dollars
  or  by  imprisonment  for  not more than thirty days or by both fine and
  imprisonment; for a second offense by a fine of  one  thousand  dollars,
  and in addition thereto the contract on which the violation has occurred
  shall  be forfeited; and no such contractor shall be entitled to receive
  any sum, nor shall any officer, agent or  employee  of  the  contracting
  public  agency  pay any such sum or authorize its payment from the funds
  under his charge or control to such contractor for work  done  upon  the
  contract on which the contractor has been convicted of a second offense.
  If the contractor or subcontractor is a corporation, any officer of such
  corporation  who  knowingly permits the corporation to fail to make such
  payment shall also be guilty of a misdemeanor and the criminal and civil
  penalties herein shall attach to such officer upon conviction.

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