Today, on May 4, People’s Council MPs considered a draft law On Amendments to the Law on Administrative Liability for Violation of Requirements Aimed at Preventing The Coronavirus Infection from Proliferating.
“The draft law establishes a regulation according to which an administrative fine in the amount of one thousand to five thousand rubles is imposed on officials and natural person-entrepreneurs for violating the laws on the sanitary and epidemiological welfare of the population, aimed at preventing the coronavirus from proliferating.
Committing this administrative offence more than once entails a fine of ten to fifty thousand rubles.
Besides, it is suggested that officials and natural person-entrepreneurs are imposed an administrative fine ranging from ten to fifty thousand rubles for failing to fulfill in due time a lawful instruction or requirement of the body or official carrying out the public sanitary and epidemiological control.
The draft law establishes administrative liability for evading medical examination or treatment.
In addition, it provides for a penalty for disseminating knowingly unreliable information of public character about COVID-19.
The draft law defines the list of officials authorized to draw up protocols on these administrative offences, as well as bodies and officials authorized to handle cases of these administrative offences. At the same time, the minimum fine ranges from one hundred to five hundred rubles for officials and from one thousand to five thousand rubles for entrepreneurs. The maximum fine ranges from thirty to fifty thousand rubles for officials and from eighty to one hundred thousand rubles for entrepreneurs,” People’s Council MP and member of the Committee for Criminal and Administrative Law Natalya Polyanskaya commented.
According to the press service of the DPR People’s Council, the MPs voted for the draft law through two readings given the relevance of the amendments proposed.