Many E.U. countries have applied the mandate only to phone companies, while others have rules on paper for Web businesses but have never enforced them.
But in the 14 years since the law was passed, the government has never enforced it, in part for fear of angering America's allies.
Rulers of modern China have never enforced a Constitution that enshrines the law as the highest authority and guarantees the rights of individuals.
In the 14 years since the law was passed, the government has never enforced it, in part for fear of angering America's allies.
Mrs. Slinkosky said the town had had an ordinance on the books for years that bars noisy arrivals and departures, but has never enforced it.
"We've never enforced that part of the regulation, but that's what the regulation says," said Roger Gandolf, the zoning enforcement official in Killingly.
Officials at the State Department of Health, which regulates the homes, acknowledge that they have never enforced a 1994 law that requires the homes to report all deaths to the state.
The city has never enforced the law against the thousands of liveries and black cars that illegally poach fares every day from hard-working taxi drivers in Manhattan, and it certainly cannot enforce a law against 30,000 permitted street-hail liveries with nothing to lose.
