Petty offences in the Thai penal Code are designated as the smallest offences with imprisonment not exceeding one month and fine not exceeding 1,000 baht or both. There are 31 sections mentioning about them. And the offences likely to be committed by a foreign visitor are few such as:
1. Whoever fails to answer the question of the government official who asks the person about his/her name and address in performing his/her official duty or gives false information shall be fined not more than one hundred baht. However, if the person is an accused person, he/she has the right not to give the information that may jeopardize himself or herself because he/she has the right of self – incrimination. So he/she is not guilty.
2. Whoever has been ordered by the government authority to do some thing in accordance with law but he/she fails to comply with the order without an appropriate cause or a reasonable excuse, shall be imprisoned not exceeding ten days and fine not exceeding 500 baht or both.
3. Whoever makes a loud noise resulting in disturbances to others or frightening the public shall be fine not exceeding one hundred baht.
4. Whoever carries a weapon in the public openly without a reasonable cause shall be fined not more than one hundred baht and the court has the power or forfeit the weapon.
5. Whoever quarrels with other persons causing disturbances in the public place shall be fined not exceeding five hundred baht.
6. Whoever fails to give a necessary assistance to another person who is in a danger of life with no fear of danger to himself/herself shall be punished with imprisonment not exceeding one month and fine not exceeding one thousand baht or both.