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(7) Failure to permit inspectionorto perform any monitoring,testing, or •:• • <br />required •: to Section or <br />(8) Making any false statement, representation, or certification in any application, record, <br />report , or other document submitted or required to be maintained pursuant to this <br />chapter. <br />(c) Any person who intentionally fails to notify the board or the local agency when required to <br />so by this chapter or who submits false Information In a permit application, amendment, o <br />renewal, pursuant to Section 25286, Is liable for a civil penalty or not more than five <br />thousand •r' til' for each •= • • r storage tank fornotification t' <br />given or false information is submitted. <br />(d) Any person who falsifies any monitoring records required by this chapter. or knowingly falls <br />to report an unauthorized release, shall, upon conviction, be punished by a fine of not less than <br />five thousand • •($5,000) or more -than• : • dollars • <br />imprisonment in the county jail for not to exceed one year, or by both that fine and <br />imprisonment. <br />e in determining both the civil and criminal penalties imposed pursuant to this section, the <br />court shall considercircumstances,• • but not• to, the extent of <br />harm or potential harm caused by the violation, the nature of the violation and the period of <br />time over which it occurred, the frequencyof past violations,• the corrective action, <br />taken by the person •: holds the • <br />(f) Each civil penalty or criminal fine imposed pursuant to this section for any separate Violation <br />shall be separate, and in addition to, any other civil penalty or criminal fine imposed pursuant <br />to this sectionor any other provision of law, and shall be • _ a to the treasury of the local <br />agency or state, whichever is represented by - office of the city attorney,district attorney, <br />sectionor Attorney General bringing the action. All penalties or fines collected on behalf of the board <br />or a regional board by the Attorney General shall be deposited in the State Water Pollution <br />Cleanup and Abatement Account in the State Water Ouality Control Fund, and are available for <br />expenditure by the board, upon appropriation, pursuant to Section 13441 of the Water Code. <br />become operative •'(Added by Slats. 1988, c. 296 <br />Section operative <br />: • 1991. <br />•. •. • by 1989, <br />• . Section ' operative <br />