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(7) Facture to permit inspection or to perform any monitoring, testing, or reporting <br />required pursuant to Section 25286 or 25289. <br />(a) 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 do <br />so by this chapter or who submits false Information in a permit application, amendment, or <br />renewal, pursuant to Section 25286, Is liable for a civil penalty or not more than five <br />thousand dollars ($5,000) for each underground storage tank for which notification is not <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 dollars (55,000) or more than ten thousand dollars ($10,0000, by <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 consider all relevant circumstances, Including, but not limped 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 frequency of past violations, and the corrective action, if any, <br />taken by the person who holds the permit <br />(f) Each dull 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 section or any other provision of law, and shalt be paid to the treasury of the local <br />agency or state, whichever is represented by the office of the city attorney, district attorney, <br />or 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 Quality Control Fund, and are available for <br />expenditure by the board, upon appropriation, pursuant to Section 13441 of the Water Code. <br />(g) This section shall beoome operative on January 1, 1991. (Added by Stats. 1988, c. 296 <br />Section 3, operative Jan. 1, 1991. Amended by Stats. 1989, c. 11397, Section 19, operative <br />Jan. 1, 1991.) <br />