(a) The workers' compensation board shall provide a copy of any order
relating to the misclassification of an employee, the intentional and
material underpayment or concealment of payroll, or the failure to
secure workers' compensation in the commercial goods transportation
industry to the commissioner and commissioner of taxation and finance no
later than seven days after the issuance of the order.
(b) Notwithstanding the secrecy provisions contained in articles
nine-A and twenty-two of the tax law, the department of taxation and
finance shall provide a copy of any assessment for failure to pay
business, corporate or personal income tax by an employer in the
commercial goods transportation industry arising out of the
misclassification of an employee to the commissioner and chair of the
workers' compensation board no later than seven days after the issuance
of the assessment.
(c) Upon the issuance of an order or determination by the commissioner
for a violation and penalties under this article, the commissioner shall
provide a copy of the order to the chair of the workers' compensation
board and the commissioner of taxation and finance no later than seven
days after the issuance of the order.
2. For the purposes of this section, the term "willfully violates"
means a commercial goods transportation contractor knew or should have
known that his or her conduct was prohibited by this section.
3. Any commercial goods transportation contractor who willfully
violates section eight hundred sixty-two-b of this article shall be
subject to a civil penalty of up to twenty-five hundred dollars for the
first violation per misclassified employee and to a civil penalty of up
to five thousand dollars for each subsequent violation per misclassified
employee within a five year period.
4. In addition to civil penalties, the criminal penalties imposed on a
commercial goods transportation contractor who willfully violates the
provisions of this article shall be a misdemeanor and upon conviction
shall be punished for a first offense by imprisonment for not more than
thirty days or a fine not to exceed twenty-five thousand dollars and for
a subsequent offense by imprisonment for not more than sixty days or a
fine not to exceed fifty thousand dollars.
5. If the commercial goods transportation contractor is a corporation,
any officer of such corporation or shareholder who owns or controls at
least ten percent of the outstanding stock of such corporation who
knowingly permits the corporation to willfully violate the provisions of
this article shall also be in violation of this article and the civil
and criminal penalties herein shall attach to such officer upon
conviction.
6. Any commercial goods transportation contractor subject to civil
penalties under this article shall also be subject to any other
applicable penalties or remedies provided by law for failure to pay any
other statutory payment or coverage obligations, including but not
limited to, unemployment insurance, workers' compensation insurance, or
business, corporate or personal income tax, as follows:
(a) for failure to pay unemployment insurance tax, the penalties
imposed by section five hundred seventy of this chapter.
(b) for intentional and material understatement or concealment of
payroll or failure to secure workers' compensation insurance, the
penalties imposed by paragraph (d) of subdivision one of section
fifty-two of the workers' compensation law, and for failure to keep a
true and accurate record pursuant to section one hundred thirty-one of
the workers' compensation law, the penalties of section one hundred
thirty-one of the workers' compensation law.
(c) for failure to pay business, corporate or personal income tax, the
penalties imposed by section six hundred eighty-five and one thousand
eighty-five of the tax law.
7. Any commercial goods transportation contractor or any officer or
shareholder who owns or controls at least ten percent of the outstanding
stock of such corporation that has been convicted of a misdemeanor shall
be subject to debarment and be ineligible to submit a bid on or be
awarded any public works contract with the state, any municipal
corporation, public benefit corporation, public authority or public body
for a period of up to one year from the date of such conviction or final
determination, or up to five years in the event of any subsequent
violation.
8. Any substantially owned affiliated entity of a commercial goods
transportation contractor, as defined by paragraph g of subdivision five
of section two hundred twenty of this chapter, shall be subject to the
same civil penalty provided under this article for a violation of such
provision.
9. Any penalties imposed under this section by the commissioner shall
be appealed to the industrial board of appeals in accordance with
article three of this chapter. Any penalties imposed under this section
by the workers' compensation board or commissioner of taxation and
finance shall be appealed in the same manner as the underlying
violation.
10. Nothing in this section shall limit the availability of other
remedies at law or in equity for a violation of this article.
11. Any fee or penalty assessed for a violation of this article shall
be deposited into the department's fee and penalty account.