Fines and Warnings

Purpose of the Policy

To Provide members with a consisten proceedure for imposing and the paying of Fines.

Policy:

1. All finable offences are subject to this policy and its' procedures with the following exceptions:

• Participation Policy

• Monthly Housing Charges and Arrears Policy

• Any Situation deemed overtly dangerous to a memeber and/or the memebrship 

2. In the above situations the fine procedures will be built into the existing Policy, or, as is the case of with Subsection C., the Board may meet to Impose a consequence/penalty more fitting to the overtly dangerous situation.

3. If the policy is a finable offence, It will be refereced in the specific Policy's Procedure Section. 

Procedures

1. The procedure for imposing a fine is:

• A written warning on the first complaint/offense. This written warning will incudle the nature of the complaint/offence, the specific remedy required of the memeber and the amount of time allotted to the memebr to rectify the situtation.

• A fine of $30 [Thirty dollars] for the second complaint/offence regarding the same policy.

• A fine of $50 [Fifty dollars] for the third compaint/offence regarding the same policy.

• A fine of $100 [One Hundred dollars] for the forth and subsequent complaint/offence regarding the same policy.

2. The fines will be due, over and above the housing charges, by the first day of the month following the issue of the fine. 

3. Failure to pay the fine/s by the member will put the member in arrears, as the fine will be paid out of their Housing charge and the remainder of the monies will be applied to their Housing charge. It then falls under the authority of the Housing charges and Arrears Policy and its' procedures.

Accepted at the General Meting on June 26, 2013

Replaces all previous policies.