Any person, firm, corporation, club, or association of persons, who shall reuse or refill with any tobacco products enumerated herein any box, package or container from which tobacco products theretofore tax-paid have been removed, or who otherwise violates any provision of this chapter, may be subject to a department imposed penalty of not less than five hundred dollars ($500) nor more than one thousand dollars ($1,000). This penalty is multiplied by the number of violations of this section.