Section 217. Penalties  


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  • 1.  If any taxes, penalties or interest due under
      this article are not paid, or any report required is not filed, and  the
      tax  commission  is  satisfied  that the failure to make such payment or
      file  such  report  is  intentional,   it   may   so   report   to   the
      attorney-general,  who  shall immediately bring an action in the name of
      the people of the state, for the forfeiture of the charter or  franchise
      of  any  corporation  failing to make such payment, or file such report,
      and if it be found that such failure was intentional, judgment shall  be
      rendered  in  such action for the forfeiture of such charter and for its
      dissolution if a domestic corporation and if a foreign  corporation  for
      the annulment of its franchise to do business in this state.
        2.  Whenever any corporation has failed to file an annual report for a
      period of two consecutive years or has been delinquent in the payment of
      taxes  for  any  two  years  duly  assessed  pursuant to this article or
      article nine-a of the tax law heretofore in effect,  all  the  authority
      and powers conferred on the tax commission and the secretary of state by
      section two hundred three-a of this chapter and all of the provisions of
      such section shall have full force and effect in respect of and shall be
      applicable to such corporation.
        3.    Whenever  any  foreign  corporation has failed to file an annual
      report or has been delinquent in the  payment  of  taxes  duly  assessed
      pursuant   to  this  article  for  the  periods  of  time  specified  in
      subdivision two of this section, all the authority and powers  conferred
      on  the tax commission and the secretary of state by section two hundred
      three-b of this chapter and all of the provisions of such section  shall
      have full force and effect in respect of and shall be applicable to such
      corporation.