VIOLATIONS BY EMPLOYERS. Any employer or any officer or agent of an employer or any other person who makes a false statement or representation knowing it to be false, or who knowingly fails to disclose a material fact, to prevent or reduce the payment of benefits to any individual entitled thereto, or to avoid becoming or remaining a subject employer or to avoid or reduce any contribution or other payment required from an employing unit under this act or under the unemployment compensation law of any state or of the federal government, or who willfully fails or refuses to make or to furnish any reports required hereunder or to produce or permit the inspection or copying of records as required hereunder, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punished by a fine of not less than Fifty Dollars ($50.00) nor more than Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00), or by imprisonment for not longer than ninety (90) days, or by both fine and imprisonment; and each such false statement or representation or failure to disclose a material fact, and each day of such failure or refusal shall constitute a separate offense.
Added by Laws 1980, c. 323, § 5-103, eff. July 1, 1980.
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