The parliament continues to discuss a package of extrajudicial fines, where laws left over from the last century have appeared.
The House Judiciary Committee admits that "the more one examines the old rulings, the more one realizes that the country is stuck in an absurdity."
“Shutters facing the side of the road are prohibited from being left open if they are up to 12 meters from the ground... and this is to prevent riders from looking into them,” says Andreas Pasiourtidis, citing the current text of the old regulation.
But this is not the only example of legislative anachronism. According to MP Fotini Tsiridou, even the barking of a dog is interpreted by law as a series of separate offenses: “If a dog barks, then goes silent and starts barking again five minutes later, then this is a separate violation.”
These and other strange norms were again on the agenda after the Ministry of Justice sent a document to parliament on modernizing the Law on Municipalities.
“Modernizing laws is not just about changing the currency of fines from pence and pounds to euros. It is necessary to conduct a serious study, identify and eliminate violations that have completely lost their meaning,” Pasiourtidis emphasized.
In the coming weeks, the committee will continue to work to cleanse the legislation of archaic and long-lost provisions.
Source: alphanews.live
