NEW YEAR, NEW FINES.
Ringing in the 2010 comes with new provincial fines, with a doubling in alcohol related offences. The fine for being drunk in public raised to $115, and most other alcohol-related fines raised to $230, including:
- Purchase by minor
- Consumption by minor
- Minor in liquor establishment
- Minor in possession
- Presentation of false identification
- Consume liquor in a public place
- Intoxicated in a public place
- Supply liquor to intoxicated person
- Permit intoxicated person on premises
- Possess opened liquor in a motor vehicle
This new ruling comes alongside fines for using your cellphone in your vehicle and parking meters to be in effect for an extra 2 hours, until 10pm every day.
So it seems gone are the days of working late, jumping in your car, cracking a beer, calling up your mate on the way, parking without plugging the meter, getting hammered in a bar, picking up some teenage girls, plying them booze on the art gallery steps and urinating on the Olympic countdown sign.
No wonder they call it "no fun" Vancouver. Happy 2010!
N.D.
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