2052 - Enforcement. - New York Statutes

§ 2052. Enforcement. 1. Any lawyer who violates section two thousand fifty-one of this part, shall be liable for a civil penalty not to exceed three times the charges and fees for contracted services or salary received by the lawyer and paid by such school district or board of cooperative educational services for legal services, and in addition, may be enjoined from continuing such violation. Civil penalties and injunctive relief provided in this section shall be recoverable in an action brought by the attorney general. 2. Any person who shall knowingly: (a) violate subdivision two of section two thousand fifty-one of this part; (b) make a false statement of material fact; or (c) falsify or permit to be falsified any record or records of the retirement system established in this chapter in an attempt to defraud the retirement system established in this chapter as a result of such act for the purpose of obtaining a credit towards pension benefits, or a benefit or payment in excess of one thousand dollars from such retirement system for a professional services provider to which such professional services provider would not be entitled, shall be guilty of a class E felony.