2010 New York Code
LAB - Labor
Article 28 - (875 - 883) TOXIC SUBSTANCES
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.