Section 24-267. Compliance with board decisions; orders and civil penalties

(a) If the respondent fails or refuses to comply with the board's order,
  or the board otherwise deems it necessary, the corporation  counsel  for
  the  city  of  New York, acting in the name of the city, may maintain an
  action or proceeding in a court  of  competent  jurisdiction  to  compel
  compliance  with or restrain by injunction the violation of any order of
  the board.
    (b) A civil penalty imposed by the board pursuant to section 24-257 of
  this code may be collected in an action brought in the name of the  city
  of New York.