The city of Quincy is taking action against people who choose to violate the governor's executive order to stay at home and practice social distancing.

Monday at Quincy city council, an ordinance was adopted to allow the Quincy Police Department to give out citations to people caught not following the governor's order.

Quincy Mayor Kyle Moore said although most people are following the rules, they are aware of people who are not.

He said as time goes on, the city needs to be prepared to take action against those who decide to stop following it.

"We know as this progresses and if it gets a little longer, there may be some people who say you know what, I don't care about the executive order by the governor and then our police officers need to have some teeth to do a citation, but that is not what we want to do," Moore said. "It's only if people bring law enforcement to that last resort."

"In the back of our minds, we think as this goes longer, there will be people that are just tired of it and will push the envelope," Chief Rob Copley with the Quincy Police Department said. "So we need to be prepared and this ordinance gives us an easy way to site someone for violating the governor's orders."

The ordinance will go to the city council next week for an official vote. Copley said the citation will be a fine, most likely capped at 500 dollars, depending on the offense.