The TUC called for more enforcement officers to be hired, naming and shaming all non-payers, and an increase in the maximum fine from £5,000 to £75,000.
For example, in 2002 state legislation increased the maximum fine from $850 to $1,000 for passing a stopped school bus when its red lights are flashing.
One of the major changes to the Code is an increase in maximum fines for violations of the code from $2,000 to $1 million per day, or $2 million per day for repeat offenders.
The bill proposing higher fines, which was sponsored by Lafayette Democrat Mike Foote, would have set minimum fines and would have upped maximum fines for public health violations significantly, to $15,000 per day from $1,000 per day.
Under pressure, including from Mr. Medvedev, the bill's proponents are planning to reduce the maximum fines for citizens to 300,000 rubles, or about $9,600.
Emanuel dropped his proposals to increase seven-fold the minimum fine for resisting arrest (including for passive resistance) from $25 to $200, to double the maximum fine for resisting arrest from $500 to $1,000, and to double the maximum fine for violations of the parade ordinance from $1,000 to $2,000.
Maximum fines grew from $50,000 in 1955 to a virtually unlimited amount by 1991.
Currently, the maximum fines range from $6,500 to $600,000 -- depending on the infraction -- but the legislation sets maximums of $100,000 to $2 million.
Among other penalties, this increased the maximum fine for a street-racing conviction from $1,000 to $10,000.
The government is doubling the maximum fine for employers found using illegal workers to £20,000 from next month.
