Penalties.
Section 18
Sec. 18. Penalties.—Any person, partnership, association, or corporation who establishes, operates, conducts, manages or maintains a hospital or hospital clinic within the meaning of this Act without first obtaining a license as provided for in this Act or violates any provision hereof shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be liable to a fine of not more than five hundred pesos for the first offense and not more than one thousand pesos for each subsequent offense, and each day that the hospital shall operate after the first conviction shall be considered a subsequent offense.