Section 15-231. Civil penalty for failure to certify the correction of a violation

a. Any person who shall fail to comply with an order  of  the  commissioner  issued  pursuant to subdivision a of section 15-230 within
  the time specified in such subdivision or within such further period  of
  time  as  may be provided by the environmental control board pursuant to
  subdivision b of section 15-230 shall,  in  addition  to  the  penalties
  which  may  be  imposed for the violation pursuant to section 15-229, be
  liable for a civil penalty of not more than five  thousand  dollars  for
  each  violation  for  which there has been a failure to comply with such
  order. Such civil penalty may be recovered in a  proceeding  before  the
  environmental control board.
    b.  For  the  purposes  of  this section, if the environmental control
  board finds that  a  respondent  has  knowingly  made  false  statements
  relating  to  the  correction  of  a  violation in a certification filed
  pursuant to section 15-230, such certification as to correction shall be
  null and void and the penalties set forth in this section may be imposed
  as if such false certification had not been filed with and  accepted  by
  the department.
 
    * NB Added L.L. 80/85 § 8, language juxtaposed per Ch. 907/85 § 14