3. A person occupying an apartment house, tenement or bungalow colony,
or any part thereof, to whom fuel, ice or food, shall be sold or
delivered by a seller or dealer who has paid or given any money,
property or thing of value for the privilege of selling or delivering
fuel, ice or food, to the persons occupying or to occupy such apartment
house, tenement or bungalow colony, or any part thereof, may recover of
such seller or dealer for his benefit a penalty, in the sum of two
hundred and fifty dollars, in a civil action brought in a court of
competent jurisdiction.