N.Y. GBS. LAW § 342-a : NY Code - Section 342-A: Recovery of civil penalty by attorney-general

Search N.Y. GBS. LAW § 342-a : NY Code - Section 342-A: Recovery of civil penalty by attorney-general

In lieu of any
  penalty  otherwise  prescribed  for  a  violation of a provision of this
  article and in addition to an action pursuant to section  three  hundred
  forty-two  of  this article, the attorney-general may bring an action in
  the name and in behalf of the people of the state  against  any  person,
  trustee,  director,  manager or other officer or agent of a corporation,
  or against a corporation, foreign or domestic, to recover a  penalty  in
  the sum specified in section three hundred forty-one of this article for
  the doing in this state of any act herein declared to be illegal, or any
  act  in,  toward  or  for  the  making  or consummation of any contract,
  agreement, arrangement or combination herein  prohibited,  wherever  the
  same  may  have been made. The action must be brought within three years
  after the commission of the act upon which it is based.