Ottawa bylaw officers will now be handing out fines, not warnings, to any individual or business flaunting the city’s indoor mask requirements.
According to Ottawa’s bylaw department, the “warning phase” is ending for the city’s temporary mask rules, first set in mid-July and recently expanded to at least the end of October.
Anyone who refuses to wear a face mask in an indoor public setting will now be subject to a possible $240 fine, and any operator found not to comply with the face mask requirements could face a $490 fine.
As for those who have a medical exemption to wearing a face mask, they will not be fined. Before now, bylaw officers had been instructed to take an educational approach to enforce the new rules.
Ottawa expanded its mask bylaws roughly three weeks ago to include the common space of apartment buildings and some outdoor spaces where large gatherings make physical distancing unrealistic.
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