Section 20-483. Penalties

a.  The  commissioner may suspend or revoke the
  license of any warehouse operator who is found to have committed five or
  more violations of this subchapter within a two year period.
    b. In addition to any penalties or remedies provided  for  in  chapter
  one  of  this  title,  a storage warehouse operator who shall violate or
  fail to comply with any provisions of  this  subchapter  or  who  fails,
  omits  or  neglects  to  obey,  observe  or comply with any order, rule,
  direction, demand or requirement of the department or who shall fail  to
  maintain  and  comply with the schedule of rates and charges filed shall
  be subject to a penalty not to exceed the sum of  one  thousand  dollars
  for  each  and  every  offense. Every violation of any such order, rule,
  direction, demand or requirement of the department, or of any  provision
  of this subchapter, shall be a separate and distinct offense and in case
  of  a  continuing  violation,  every  day's continuance thereof shall be
  deemed to be a separate and distinct offense.
    c. Any person who is not  a  licensed  warehouse  operator  under  the
  provisions  of  this  subchapter  who shall operate a warehouse shall be
  subject to a penalty of one thousand dollars for each day  of  operation
  without a license.
    d.  Any  person  who  is  not  a licensed warehouse operator who shall
  advertise, represent in any  manner,  or  claim  to  operate  a  storage
  warehouse shall be subject to a penalty of one thousand dollars.
    e. Any person who shall willfully make any false entry in the accounts
  or in any record or memorandum kept by a storage warehouse operator, who
  shall willfully destroy or falsify a record of any such account, record,
  or memorandum, or who shall willfully neglect or fail to make full, true
  or  correct entries in such accounts, records, or memoranda of all facts
  and transactions pertaining to the business of the warehouse operator or
  shall keep any  accounts  or  records  with  the  intent  to  evade  the
  provisions  of this subchapter shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon
  conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine  of  not  more  than  one
  thousand  dollars  or  imprisonment  of not more than thirty days, or by
  both such fine and imprisonment.