§ 24-907 Enforcement.
AC § 24-907
(a)Any applicant, enrollee, or recipient of a certificate of completion who misrepresents any material fact related to the investigation, remediation or site management of a local brownfield site; or any person or entity that violates any provision of a site management plan for a local brownfield site; or any person or entity that violates any provision of this chapter or the rules of the office of environmental remediation, shall be liable for a civil penalty of not more than twenty-five thousand dollars.
(b)A civil penalty may be recovered in an action in a court of competent jurisdiction or in a proceeding before an administrative tribunal within the jurisdiction of the office of administrative trials and hearings pursuant to section 1049-a of the charter, which proceeding shall be commenced by the service of an administrative summons or a notice of violation returnable before such tribunal.
(c)The director of the office of environmental remediation may designate other city agencies to issue such administrative summonses and notices of violation. Employees or designees of the office are authorized to enter private property, in accordance with applicable law, to inspect for the violations described in this section. (Am. L.L. 2022/028, 1/9/2022, eff. 4/9/2022) Editor's note: For related unconsolidated provisions, see Appendix A at L.L. 2009/027.
