Any person, partnership, firm, association, corporation or company or any officer, representative or agent thereof violating any of the provisions of this article other than Section 39-3-150 shall forfeit not less than two hundred dollars, nor more than five thousand dollars, for every such offense and each day such person shall continue to do so shall be a separate offense, the penalties in such cases to be recovered by an action in the name of the State, at the relation of the Attorney General or the solicitor of the judicial circuit within which the offense was committed. The moneys thus collected shall go into the State Treasury, and become a part of the general fund except as otherwise provided. The amount of the forfeit shall be fixed by the judge before whom the case is tried in each case, within the limits provided in this section and the collection of such penalty shall be enforced as the collection of fines against defendants upon conviction of a misdemeanor.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 66-68; 1952 Code Section 66-68; 1942 Code Section 6627; 1932 Code Section 6635; Civ. C. '22 Section 3545; Civ. C. '12 Section 2452; 1902 (23) 1057.