2006 New York Code - Penalty For Neglect To Report Or For Making False Report.

 
    §  150.  Penalty for neglect to report or for making false report.  1.
  Any commissioner of public welfare, deputy commissioner,  town  or  city
  public  welfare officer, service officer, or any officer or employee who
  shall neglect or refuse to  render  any  account,  statement  or  report
  required  by or pursuant to this chapter, or who shall delay, neglect or
  refuse to forward any application for  public  assistance  or  care,  or
  shall  wilfully make false report or shall neglect to pay over any money
  within the time required by law, shall forfeit two hundred  dollars  and
  shall  be  liable to an action for all money which shall be in his hands
  with the interest thereon after the time the same should have been  paid
  over.
    2.  Any officer, department or board, in case of failure to receive an
  application for public assistance and  care,  or  a  report  or  account
  required  by  this  chapter,  shall  notify the district attorney having
  authority in such public welfare district.
    3. The district attorney, upon receiving such notice, shall  prosecute
  in the name of such officer, department or board for the recovery of the
  penalty  or  of  such  money, or both. The penalty and the sum recovered
  shall be deposited in the public welfare  fund  of  the  public  welfare
  district or of a town or city thereof, as the case may be.