The culprit, who has not been named, was slapped with a fine of £135 while dressed in the outfit outside the McShark computer shop in Vienna on Monday.
But he was seething after he was told that he had broken the law because Austria forbids people from wearing any form of facial covering in public.
Austria’s burka ban came into force on October 1, over concerns about the burka and Islamic full-face veils. But it has since been broadened to include any type of face coverings.
A police spokesman told Heute newspaper: “The shark was fined because he refused to take his mask off.”
The spokesman added that police officers issued him with a citation, despite the fact that he was an employee taking part in a street advertising campaign for the McShark computer chain stores.
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Austria has placed a ban on most full face coverings including off-slope ski masks, surgical masks outside hospitals and party masks on the street.
Popularly known as the “burka ban,” MPs hope that the ban will enable new migrants to settle into the country better and integrate seamlessly.
Yet, the law has already had unexpected consequences for non Muslims, after another woman was stopped by police because she had wrapped her scarf around her face against the cold.
A street musician was also stopped while performing in an animal mask.
The country’s ban is being rigorously enforced by the police. The rule states that faces must be visible from the hairline to the chin.
But the way its being rolled out, has courted a great deal of debate in the country in the run up to this weekend’s Austrian elections.
Austria’s hard-right Freedom Party is expected to catapult itself into government.
The party is poised to become part of a coalition after the October 15 vote with the conservatives expected to gain around a third of the vote.
It used tough rhetoric on fighting immigration and closed Islamic communities to pull in voters.
But in a controversial move, the party was forced to suspend a low-level party official over allegations he used a Nazi salute.