Department of Public Courtesy · Notice of Courtesy Violation

You have been cited under § 1.09 of the Public Courtesy Code: Stoppage at the Head of a Stair

NOT AT THE TOP OF THE STAIRS.

You climbed the stairs, reached daylight, and stopped there to get your bearings — at the exact point where forty people behind you have nowhere to go and no way to slow down. Three more steps. That's all anybody is asking. Three steps and you're clear.

This is not a fine. There is no fine. Think about what you did.

Citations not contested and not remediated remain on your record indefinitely. There is no record. There is absolutely a record.