Gov. Pritzker Announces New Mask Rule with potential for $2500 fine
llinois businesses that do not enforce public health requirements can fined up to $2,500 under a new set of emergency rules that Gov. J.B. Pritzker announced Friday.
The Illinois Department of Public Health will file those emergency rules to give local health departments and law enforcement agencies "more leeway" in enforcing the state's mask mandate and social gathering restrictions, Pritzker said at a news conference.
The rules apply to businesses, schools and child care establishments, Pritzker said - changing the existing enforcement laws that he called "stringent and severe," like revoking a license for not complying.
The process will be as follows, per Pritzker's office:
- First, businesses will be given a warning in the form of written notice and encouraged to voluntarily comply with public health guidance.
- Second, businesses that do not voluntarily comply will be given an order to have some or all of their patrons leave the premises as needed to comply with public health guidance and reduce risks.
- Third, if the business continues to refuse to comply, the business can receive a class A misdemeanor and be subject to a fine ranging from $75-$2,500.
The rules do not apply to individuals, Pritzker said, and will not exceed a misdemeanor and a $75 to $2,500 fine. Both law enforcement agencies as well as local health departments will be authorized to enforce the rules, Pritzker said.
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Founded in 1904, the Chicago Automobile Trade Association is on of the nation's oldest and largest metropolitan new-car dealer associations. Today, it lists 400+ new-car dealers as members.
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For more than a century, the CATA has stood for high principles of business. Its basic tenets remain as steadfast today as they were a hundred years ago: Promoting honesty and dependability in business operations; Employing truth and accuracy in dealer advertising; Standing by guarantees; Improving business methods and ethics and keeping competition fair so that dealers and the public are well-served; and Refraining from practices detrimental to the industry or contrary to the public interest. Currently, CATA dealerships employ more than 20,000 people in Chicagoland. Over the past century, these locally based small businesses have provided good paying jobs for their employees, who, in turn, contribute to their communities. The CATA’s commitment to excellence in automotive retailing remains its core value and will remain so through the next century.
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