Not 100% correct even by your own interpretation of the law. Example:If a person came here and stayed 32 days, how many days was that person "illegal" and subject to the fee AND further penalties under the law?
Some people obviously do not want to understand by taking the time to read the DR immigration law , which has NO mention of overstay fees, and also the link I posted to the DR Migracion web site about the overstay fees which explains how paying them does not make an overstay legal, so here is a real world example you might be able to relate to:
If you pay to park for one hour and you leave your car parked for one hour and one minute, for how long is your car parked illegally?
The government keeps track of how long you stay and will make you pay for that extra minute. Perhaps you leave the car for a long time and the
charges add up. Then you eventually pay the money for that overparking. Was your car legally parked for that one minute after that one hour? Did paying the parking fine make your entire time of parking legal?
The vast majority of people who enter the DR who are not already on the island of Hispaniola arrive using a tourist card they paid for in their flight cost which allows them to stay legally for 30 days. (Why do you think they put a time limit on that? Hmm, could be because you are illegal if you stay longer, no?) If they stay for 31 days for how many days were they illegal? If they stay even longer than 1 day there is a fee schedule and the charges add up. When those people leave the DR, they pay money for that overstay. Were they legally in the DR after 30 days? Does the paying of money when they leave make the entire time they stayed in the DR legal?
I understand the scenarios are not exactly equivalent because the amounts paid for overparking are part of the laws, while the amount paid for overstaying in the DR are not part of the laws. To answer your question, a person who arrives on a tourist card for 30 days and takes no other action to be legal is illegal on day 31 and all subsequent days.