Two New Jersey gas stations sued for price gouging during the state of emergency caused by Hurricane Sandy will pony up $46,000 to settle the allegations.

The New Jersey Attorney General's office announced today that C.S. George & Sons, Inc., which runs George’s Service Center on Crooks Avenue in Clifton, will pay $26,000 for allegedly raising the price of regular gasoline by 34 percent after Gov. Chris Christie made the emergency declaration on Oct. 27, two days before the storm made landfall.

Shiv Shivam, Inc., which operates Lukoil on Old New Brunswick Road in Piscataway, will pay $20,000 in fines for allegedly increasing the price of regular gas by 17.5 percent, according to officials. The fines include civil penalties, as well as reimbursement to the state for attorney’s fees and other costs.

“These two settlements are the first of what I expect to be a series of resolutions to the price-gouging lawsuits that we have filed to date,” New Jersey Attorney General Jeffrey Chiesa said in a statement.

Chiesa and the state Division of Consumer Affairs sued 24 businesses for excessively raising prices during the state of emergency from the megastorm.

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State law prohibits businesses from raising prices more than 10 percent during a declared state of emergency or the 30 days following. Businesses that incur extra costs due to the emergency may not raise prices more than 10 percent above the normal markup from those expenses.

The state received more than 2,000 consumer complaints about price gouging after Sandy.

Residents may file a complaint with the New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs by visiting its website or by calling (800) 242-5846.