2012 New York Consolidated Laws
CVR - Civil Rights
Article 4 - (40 - 45) Equal Rights in Places of Public Accommodation and Amusement
41 - Penalty for violation.

 
    §  41.  Penalty for violation.   Any person who or any agency, bureau,
  corporation or association which shall violate any of the provisions  of
  sections  forty, forty-a, forty-b or forty-two or who or which shall aid
  or incite the violation of any of said provisions  and  any  officer  or
  member  of  a  labor  organization, as defined by section forty-three of
  this chapter, or any person representing any organization or  acting  in
  its   behalf  who  shall  violate  any  of  the  provisions  of  section
  forty-three of this chapter or who shall aid or incite the violation  of
  any of the provisions of such section shall for each and every violation
  thereof  be liable to a penalty of not less than one hundred dollars nor
  more than five hundred dollars, to be recovered by the person  aggrieved
  thereby  or  by  any  resident  of this state, to whom such person shall
  assign his cause of action, in any court of  competent  jurisdiction  in
  the  county  in  which  the plaintiff or the defendant shall reside; and
  such person and the manager or owner of or each officer of such  agency,
  bureau,  corporation  or  association,  and  such officer or member of a
  labor organization or person acting in his behalf, as the  case  may  be
  shall,  also,  for every such offense be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor,
  and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not  less  than  one  hundred
  dollars  nor  more than five hundred dollars, or shall be imprisoned not
  less than thirty days nor more than ninety days, or both such  fine  and
  imprisonment.  At  or  before  the commencement of any action under this
  section, notice thereof shall be served upon the attorney general.