Violators of the curfew will now face the payment of fines ranging from RD $ 1,000 to more than RD $ 100,000, according to a scale established yesterday at the Attorney General’s Office, which is endorsed by the Health Act 42-01.
The fines will depend on the type of violation committed by a particular person or the owner of a commercial establishment that allows an agglomeration of elderly people to which it was ordered.
Now pedestrians who violate the curfew will pay a fine of RD $ 1,000; motorcyclists RD $ 2,000; the driver of an RD $ 5,000 vehicle and the person who is surprised at a fun center or space will pay RD $ 2,000.
As long as bars, restaurants or any other entertainment space, as well as a private party that violates the measures, will be fined RD $ 100,000.
The owner or person in charge of a bus that transports people and violates the measure, will be sanctioned with RD $ 50,000; the driver of a cargo vehicle with RD $ 30,000 and the owner of a galley with RD $ 100,000.
The general instruction signed by Attorney General Miriam Germán Brito, indicates that when the accumulation of offenses exceeds RD $ 100,000, in no case may the unspecified amount be less than this amount. The provision does not specify the amount a person must pay to travel without a mask, but needs to violate this provision would result in the payment of a fine.
In the instruction, the prosecutor Germán Brito emphasizes that the police officers at the national level present before the public prosecutor, without delay and without fault, the people arrested for violating the curfew and the restrictive measures in the agglomerations of more of ten people in public and private spaces of common use, imposed in the decree 7-21 of the 8 of this month or any other disposition issued by the Executive.
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The general instruction
Disposition.
It is addressed to tax and court attorneys, with a copy to the director general of Persecution of the public ministry.
Verification.
The Office of the Attorney General’s Office will use a technological platform to register and verify fines.