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Court verdict Does the toilet charge on highway toilets violate the law?

Who drives over the highway and has to go to the toilet, pays 70 cents at the rest stop. Is that legal? A court ruling on the case.

For toilets at motorway service areas you have to pay up to 70 cent user fee
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  1. Is entry for public toilets unlawful?
  2. Toilets on motorway parking lots are free of charge
  3. Bund issues rights of use to service areas

Who does not know: There you have to, very urgently on the toilet, find one and zack - first you have to find the necessary change to be allowed to enter the toilet at all!

Is entry for public toilets unlawful?

"An impudence!" - Everyone thinks once, when the bulging bladder is already filled to the pain threshold. Especially at motorway service areas, where there is no alternative toilet option (except perhaps to squat in a bush on the highway ...).

Rainald grave complained before the administrative court Koblenz now against the 70-cent fee to rest area. Grabe is of the opinion that the toilet should be free of charge. A toilet fee violates the Restaurant Regulation Rhineland-Palatinate ("use of the toilet rooms by guests may not be charged") and against the principle of public services, which provide a basic supply of citizens. Grabe sued for it the federal state Rhineland-Palatinate.

Toilets on motorway parking lots are free of charge

However, the court referred to the free toilets on highway parking ( yes, the filthy, the stink, are dirty and where felt never toilet paper is available ).

A right to free toilets do not have people in Germany, the judge further argued. The Daseinsversorgung, to which the plaintiff pointed out, is also not always free of charge in Germany, said the judge and referred to the drinking water, gas and electricity supply as an example.

Bund issues rights of use to service areas

In addition, the state of Rhineland-Palatinate, which was sued in this case of grave, not responsible for the fee of the motorway rest stop toilets - but the federal government! After all, it is the federal government that awards the concessions to the rest areas (and gives them the rights of use to the rest stop WC company - in this case Sanifair ).

Rainald Grabe will probably proceed against the verdict and sue in another instance . Grabe announced, if necessary, to go to the European Court of Justice . We are curious.

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(WW7)

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