Penalty of between one thousand yuan and ten thousand yuan for failure to pay fees for exceeding pollutant discharge standards in accordance with state provisions.
San Diego's municipal code, for instance, requires property owners to maintain landscape and vegetation standards—or face a penalty equivalent to the cost of hiring a private contractor to do so.
In order to raise revenue, the federal government planned a tax amnesty program that allows tax delinquents to pay all owed tax without added financial penalty.
In Britain, if you are found guilty of a crime, you can be sent to prison or be fined or be ordered to do community work such as tidying public places and helping the old.
THEY are hemmed in by more bus lanes, picked on by more traffic wardens, spied on by more speed cameras, punished with more fines and soaked more enthusiastically by the exchequer than ever before.