59 verified laws filed under Commerce & Business, each checked against the statute and sourced.
Hawaii's Act 96 of 2025 added 0.75 percentage points to the state's transient accommodations tax, marketed as the nation's first 'Green Fee' for climate resilience. The rate hike is real, but the money legally flows into the general fund and only about a third is directed to climate adaptation.
Minnesota banned cryptocurrency kiosks (Bitcoin ATMs) statewide under SF 3868, signed May 5, 2026. All machines had to go offline by August 1, 2026, and be physically removed from public locations by December 31, 2026. Minnesota was the third state to enact a full ban, after Indiana (March 2026) and Tennessee (April 2026) — though it was the first state to regulate kiosks, back in 2024. The law followed 134 scam complaints and nearly $1 million in reported Minnesotan losses over three years.
Since January 1, 2026, California law requires all commercially sold corn masa flour (masa harina) to contain 0.7 mg of folic acid per pound — making California the first U.S. state to mandate this fortification. The law targets a persistent birth-defect gap in Latino communities.
In approximately 14 U.S. states, selling or buying a car at a dealership on a Sunday is explicitly prohibited by law. These restrictions are remnants of colonial-era 'Blue Laws' and remain actively enforced today.
Under Texas Penal Code § 48.02, it is a state jail felony to sell, purchase, or transfer a human eye — or any human organ — for valuable consideration. The law covers kidneys, livers, hearts, lungs, pancreases, bones, skin, and eyes, but notably excludes hair and blood.
Despite widespread belief, card counting is not illegal under any federal or state law in the United States. Casinos can — and do — ban counters from their private premises, but no law criminalizes the mental skill itself.
It is a federal crime to intentionally destroy U.S. currency under 18 U.S.C. § 333, which prohibits mutilating or defacing banknotes with the intent to render them unfit for reissue. However, the popular claim omits the crucial legal element of intent — accidental destruction is not a crime.
Mexico's federal Law on the National Arms, Flag, and Anthem (1984) explicitly prohibits altering the words or music of the national anthem and performing it without the required solemnity. Violators face fines, up to 36 hours arrest, and in commercial cases, much steeper financial penalties — and the law has genuinely been enforced.
A widely circulated claim holds that Hungarian law requires employers to provide free garlic to their employees at work. No such law exists in any Hungarian statute, regulation, or decree.
The claim that Paraguayan law requires employers to provide workers with free yerba mate (or tereré) during work hours is a myth. No such provision exists anywhere in Paraguay's Labour Code (Law No. 213/93) or any other national labor legislation.
Israel's 1962 Pig-Raising Prohibition Law bans raising, keeping, or slaughtering pigs across the entire country — not just within city limits. The ban is national in scope but includes a carve-out for towns with large Christian populations.
The claim that Johannesburg has a municipal bylaw making it illegal to use more than a certain number of plastic bags per shopping transaction is false. No such law exists at any level of South African government.