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§ 2598. Violation of order or injunction; penalty.
(a) A person who violates any order or injunction issued pursuant to this chapter or who breaches an agreement forming the basis of a cease and desist order issued pursuant to this chapter shall forfeit and pay to the State a civil penalty of not more than $25,000 per violation.
(b) The Attorney General may petition the Superior Court in the county in which an order, injunction or cease and desist order was issued, in order to obtain recovery of a civil penalty as provided pursuant to this section. Such petition may be made whenever it appears to the Attorney General that a person subject to any order, injunction or cease and desist order issued pursuant to any provision of this chapter has violated such order or injunction or breached a material term of an agreement forming the basis for such cease and desist order.
(c) Nothing in this section shall prevent the Attorney General from initiating any additional or alternative action under lawful powers which otherwise seeks enforcement of any statute or requests sanctions for any such violation of an order, injunction or cease and desist order.
71 Del. Laws, c. 470, § 1; 70 Del. Laws, c. 186, § 1.;
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