Overview
- Three Buenos Aires tourists completed payment of the ARS 2,100,000 fine imposed under Article 138 quarter for spray-painting stones at Dique Potrerillos.
- Each visitor must carry out 20 hours of court-mandated cleanup work in Carlos Casares, with failure to comply subjecting them to detention under provincial statutes.
- Vice-Governor Hebe Casado and NGO Fundación Pro Montaña led the state-funded remediation that removed the aerosol graffiti and informed the sanction calculation.
- No criminal charges were filed, making this an administrative enforcement under Provincial Law 9414 and the Contravencional Code rather than a criminal prosecution.
- The ruling establishes a benchmark for Mendoza courts to impose contravention penalties on environmental damage in protected landscapes.