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Francois Gendron learned the hard way that it’s against the law to sit
on the grass in a public park in the downtown Ville Marie borough of
Montreal. On Monday he sat beneath a tree in Serge Garant Park behind
the Beaudry metro and the act earned him a $147 fine.Police initially approached him and asked him politely to move. “They told me we do not have the right to sit on the grass in Montreal parks,” he said. “I accepted to move but 10 minutes later the police left so I returned because I wasn’t comfortable in the sunshine."
The local police commander explained that the grass was recently replanted and that sitting on it has proven damaging. “We're just advising the people not to stay on the grass and just to sit down on the cement border,” said Vincent Richer Commander of Station 22. Police always warn people to stay off the grass and most simply comply, he noted.
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