What is the current state's position on civil penalties for failing to comply with the law?

It is equally well accepted that a state may impose reasonable penalties as a means of securing obedience to statutes validly enacted under the police power. "There is no inhibition upon the state to impose such penalties for disregard of its police power as will insure prompt obedience to the requirements of such regulations." (Shalz v. Union School Dist. (1943)58 Cal.App.2d 599, 606, 137 P.2d 762, 766.) Imposition of civil penalties has, increasingly in modern times, become a means by which legislatures implement statutory policy.