It is illegal to make a restaurant customer pay for a glass of water
It’s against the law for restaurants in Denmark to make the custumors pay for a glass of water – unless it is served with something(A slice of lemon, ice cubes)
Police Offenses Act (repealed)
The nation’s Parliament passed the Police Offenses Act in 1928. It remained in force until a new Act was passed in 1981. The old Police Offenses Act covered a raft of misdemeanors. It was, for example, an offense to allow a mare to be mated within site of a public road. Why it was all…
It was illegal for cattle to mate in fields fronting public roads (Repealed)
This was repealed in the 1950s
A cat is forbidden from leaving the house without three bells around its neck
Apparently the inhabitants of Longbern were upset about cats killing their birds.
It is illegal to spank your child
Parental control (1) Every parent of a child and every person in the place of a parent of the child is justified in using force if the force used is reasonable in the circumstances and is for the purpose of— (a) preventing or minimising harm to the child or another person; or (b) preventing the child from engaging…
Shopkeepers are required to use red ink to writethe price on books or magazines sold in installments
Required by The Mercantile Agents Act of 1908
If your land falls in an ideal area for a Waitemata-to-Manukau harbour canal, it may be confiscated.
Across Auckland. Using the Auckland and Manukau Canal Act, 1908, the Auckland Harbour Board can “purchase or take or otherwise acquire” land for the purpose of constructing a harbour-to-harbour canal. It can take the land “from time to time, either within or without the limits of its jurisdiction”.
If you find uranium and don’t report it in writing within three months, you’ve broken the law.
You’ll have to reveal the site of your discovery in your report too. It’s all in the Atomic Energy Act, 1945.
It is illegal to lead an animal on a sidewalk
6-1C-17: RIDING ON SIDEWALKS: It shall be unlawful for any person to ride, drive or lead any animal or to drive any vehicle upon, along or across any cement sidewalk in the city.