§ 52-31. Violation of act - Punishment.

Any person, copartnership, or corporation, its agent or employees, violating any of the provisions of this act, or any order of a court of competent jurisdiction of this state, or the Corporation Commission, pursuant to the jurisdiction conferred by this act, shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined a sum of not less than One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00), nor more than Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00), or imprisonment not less than six (6) months, nor more than one (1) year, or by both such fine and imprisonment for each and every violation of this act; but in case the monthly runs or takings or transportation of gas shall average so as to be without discrimination, as herein provided, a transaction or transactions of any particular day or week or portion of a month shall be disregarded; and the court of competent jurisdiction of the county in which the omission or commission, which is in violation of this act, has occurred, shall have jurisdiction of an action under the Penal Code for the punishment thereof; and that said penalties shall not be exclusive of civil liability.

Added by Laws 1913, c. 99, p. 172, § 11, emerg. eff. March 26, 1913.