Of course it probably depends on the law, but how does the mechanism operate such that the executive branch actually *enforces* the law? I assume there are executive departments that have special enforcing abilities and bureaucracy doohickeys, but my basic understanding just amounts to magic.
This question is asked because people seem to only care about how a bill gets passed, which I’m not asking.
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It depends on the type of law. For example, if it’s a US federal law concerning pollution, the Environmental Protection Agency would be notified when the president signs it, and in all likelihood they would’ve been keeping tabs on the bill as it was going through the legislature and possibly even advising on it. They have staff who has authority to enforce the law, and in cases of noncompliance, they might issue penalties or take the offending parties to court. If instead it was a state criminal statute that was signed into law, then the governor’s office would probably issue a memo to the state police, the county sheriffs, the city police, the District/State Attorneys, anyone who would likely be involved in the enforcement process.
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