§ 150. Penalty for neglect to report or for making false report. 1.
Any commissioner of public welfare, deputy commissioner, town or city
public welfare officer, service officer, or any officer or employee who
shall neglect or refuse to render any account, statement or report
required by or pursuant to this chapter, or who shall delay, neglect or
refuse to forward any application for public assistance or care, or
shall wilfully make false report or shall neglect to pay over any money
within the time required by law, shall forfeit two hundred dollars and
shall be liable to an action for all money which shall be in his hands
with the interest thereon after the time the same should have been paid
over.

2. Any officer, department or board, in case of failure to receive an
application for public assistance and care, or a report or account
required by this chapter, shall notify the district attorney having
authority in such public welfare district.

3. The district attorney, upon receiving such notice, shall prosecute
in the name of such officer, department or board for the recovery of the
penalty or of such money, or both. The penalty and the sum recovered
shall be deposited in the public welfare fund of the public welfare
district or of a town or city thereof, as the case may be.