§ 15-220.1 False statements in certificates, forms, written statements, applications, reports or certifications of correction.
AC § 15-220.1
a. Any person who shall knowingly make a false statement or who shall knowingly falsify or allow to be falsified any certificate, form, signed statement, application, report or certification of the correction of a violation required under the provisions of any laws, rules, or regulations enforceable by the department, shall be punished by a fine of not less than one thousand dollars nor more than five thousand dollars or by imprisonment not to exceed six months, or both for each such offense. b. Such person shall also be liable for a civil penalty of not less than one thousand dollars nor more than five thousand dollars which may be recovered in a proceeding before the environmental control board. In any such proceeding which relates to a false statement in a certification filed pursuant to section 15-230, if an inspection made within six months after the filing of the certification finds a condition constituting a violation which is the same as the condition described in the notice of violation with respect to which such certification was filed, there shall be a rebuttable presumption that the condition described in such notice of violation continued and is the same condition found in the inspection. Editor's note: For related unconsolidated provisions, see Appendix A at L.L. 1988/074.
