Show comma makes it illegal to sleep in dakota hotel bismarck N D slips in phraseology on the part of legislators often result in amusing statutes for instance it is illegal to sleep in a north dakota hotel the 1929 legislature approved a law on hotel inspection A slip in punctuation punctuation made it read like this no hotel restaurant dining room or kitchen shall be used as a sleeping or dressing room by an employee or other persons eliminate the comma after the word hotel and the section makes some sense however judges say it would take a legislative amendment to get rid of that comma |