§480-3.1  Civil penalty.  Any person,
firm, company, association, or corporation violating any of the provisions of
section 480-2 shall be fined a sum of not less than $500 nor more than $10,000
for each violation, which sum shall be collected in a civil action brought by
the attorney general or the director of the office of consumer protection on
behalf of the State.  The penalties provided in this section are cumulative to
the remedies or penalties available under all other laws of this State.  Each
day that a violation of section 480-2 occurs shall be a separate violation. [L
1968, c 10, §2; am L 1975, c 92, §1 and c 156, §1; am L 1986, c 9, §1]



 



Case Notes



 



  Divestiture is not available remedy in private action. 518
F.2d 913.



  Upon determination that person, while acting on behalf of
corporation owned and operated by that person, violated §480-2, court must
order person and corporation to each bear separate liability for separate civil
fines rather than imposing joint and several liability for one civil fine. 9 H.
App. 106, 826 P.2d 879.