§ 38-19-07 — Penalties

1. Any person who violates any provision of this chapter, or any rule or order of the
commission adopted or issued under this chapter, is subject to a civil penalty of not
more than twelve thousand five hundred dollars for each act of violation and for each
day the violation continues.

2. It is a class C felony for any person, for the purpose of evading this chapter, or any
rule or order of the commission, to make or cause to be made any false entry or
statement in a report required by this chapter or by any rule or order adopted or issued
or promulgated by the commission, or to make or cause to be made any false entry in
any record, account, or memorandum required by this chapter, or by any rule or order
of the commission, or to omit, or cause to be omitted, from any such record, account,
or memorandum, full, true, and correct entries as required by this chapter or by any
rule or order of the commission, or to remove from this state or destroy, mutilate, alter,
or falsify any record, account, or memorandum.
3. The civil penalties provided in subsection 1 are recoverable by suit filed by the
attorney general in the name and on behalf of the commission, in the district court of
the county in which the defendant resides, or in which any defendant resides, if there
is more than one defendant, or in the district court of any county in which the violation
occurred. The payment of the penalty does not operate to relieve a person on whom
the penalty is imposed from liability to any other person for damages arising out of
such violation.