Section 662. Penalties

1. Discrimination against employee. Any employer or
  his agent, or the officer or agent of any corporation, who discharges or
  in  any  other  manner  discriminates  against any employee because such
  employee has made a complaint to his employer, or to the commissioner or
  his authorized representative, that he has not been paid  in  accordance
  with the provisions of this article, or because such employee has caused
  to  be  instituted  a  proceeding  under  or related to this article, or
  because such employee has  testified  or  is  about  to  testify  in  an
  investigation  or  proceeding  under  this article, shall be guilty of a
  class B misdemeanor.
    2. Payment of less than minimum wage. Any employer or  his  agent,  or
  the  officer  or  agent of any corporation, who pays or agrees to pay to
  any employee less than the wage applicable under this article  shall  be
  guilty  of a class B misdemeanor and each payment to any employee in any
  week  of  less  than  the  wage  applicable  under  this  article  shall
  constitute a separate offense.
    3.  Failure to keep records. Any employer or his agent, or the officer
  or agent of any corporation, who fails  to  keep  the  records  required
  under  this  article  or  to  furnish  such  records  or any information
  required to be furnished under this article to the commissioner  or  his
  authorized  representative  upon  request,  or who hinders or delays the
  commissioner or his authorized representative in the performance of  his
  duties  in  the  enforcement  of  this  article, or refuses to admit the
  commissioner  or  his  authorized  representative  to   any   place   of
  employment,  or  falsifies  any  such  records  or  refuses to make such
  records accessible to the commissioner or his authorized representative,
  or refuses to furnish a sworn statement of such  records  or  any  other
  information  required  for the proper enforcement of this article to the
  commissioner or his authorized representative,  shall  be  guilty  of  a
  class B misdemeanor and each day's failure to keep the records requested
  under  this  article  or  to  furnish such records or information to the
  commissioner  or  his  authorized  representative  shall  constitute   a
  separate offense.
    4.  Where  any  person has previously been convicted of a violation of
  this section within the preceding five  years,  upon  conviction  for  a
  second  or  subsequent  violation  such  person  may  be fined up to ten
  thousand dollars in addition to  any  other  penalties  including  fines
  otherwise  provided by law; provided, however, that the total additional
  fine that may be imposed  pursuant  to  this  subdivision  for  separate
  offenses committed in any consecutive twelve month period may not exceed
  ten thousand dollars.