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• a  not enforced; not compelled especially by legal or police action
  too many unenforced laws can breed contempt for law

• But a visit to the trenches proves that rule unenforced.
• New York Central ("rule unenforced") Pennsylvania (A half-apologetic "suggestion" on the menu).
• Even if the teen smoking regulations were to go into effect, most would merely shore up existing, if unenforced, laws.

• enforced

News & Articles

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• Stanley Cup 2013: Bruins outsmart Blackhawks at the simple game
  The final is being slowed down by bad ice and an unenforced rulebook, but the Bruins are adapting better than the Blackhawks.
  June 18, 2013 - The Hockey News via Yahoo! Sports

Quotes

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• Justin Rigali in Zenit News Agency
  It seems the statutory policy is clear and needed, and at the same time is relatively unknown, misunderstood and unenforced,Cardinal Rigali wrote. "This is a paradigm instance calling for the executive branch to reaffirm and implement the...
• Sarah Palin in CBS News
  Many of the countries we're forced to import from have few if any environmental-protection laws, and those that do exist often go unenforced,writes Palin. "In effect, American environmentalists are preventing responsible development here...
• Chaka Fattah in Reuters
  Fattah said these provisions have been "virtually unenforced since its inception."