What weird laws are in your city/state?

Question

What weird laws are in your city/state?

Answer 1

Kentucky

• A person can be sent to jail for five years for merely sending a bottle of beer, wine or spirits as a gift to a friend in Kentucky.

• An ordinance in Murray, Ky., says the superintendent of sanitation "shall determine whether a person is small, medium or large." Why the superintendent should make this determination is left unsaid.

• All nude people in your house must be registered in Kentucky.

• An excerpt from brilliant Kentucky state legislation. "No female shall appear in a bathing suit on any highway within this state unless she be escorted by at least two officers or unless she be armed with a club". The following important ammendment however is to be considered here: "The provisions of this statuate shall not apply to females weighing less than 90 pounds nor exceeding 200 pounds,

• Any person who appears on any highway, or upon the street of any city that has no police protection, when clothed only in ordinary bathing garb, shall be fined no less than five dollars nor more than twenty-five dollars." - KRS 436.140

• Any person who displays, handles or uses any kind of reptile in connection with any religious service or gathering shall be fined not less than fifty dollars ($50) nor more than one hundred dollars ($100). -KRS 437.060 (Passed 1942, from Ky. Stat. sec. 1267a-1.).

• By law, anyone who has been drinking is "sober" until he or she "cannot hold onto the ground".

• Each year, the mayor of Danville, Ky., must appoint "three intelligent housekeepers" to the Board of Tax Supervisors.

• Frankfort, Kentucky, makes it against the law to shoot off a policeman's tie.

• In Danville, Ky., it's illegal to throw slops or soapsuds in the street.

• In Kentucky every citizen of is required to take a shower once a year.

• In Kentucky you need a license to walk around nude on your property.

• It is illegal in Kentucky to marry the same man more than 3 times.

• It is illegal to fish with a bow and arrow in Kentucky.

• It is illegal to shoot game out of the window of a moving vehicle, with the exception of a whale

• It is illegal to transport an ice cream cone in your pocket.

• It's illegal to fish in the Ohio River in Kentucky without an Indiana Fishing License.

• No person owning or controlling a billiard or pool table shall permit, for compensation or reward, any minor under eighteen (18) years of age to play any game on the table, unless such minor shall have first displayed an identification card containing his name, age, photograph, and the signature of his parents or guardian. The minor shall keep such identification card on his person, and it shall be subject to inspection at any time by any peace officer. The person owning or controlling such billiard or pool table shall keep and maintain a registration book in which each minor shall sign. The person owning or controlling such billiard or pool table shall supply a blank identification card to each parent or guardian who makes request for same. Any person who violates this section shall be fined not less than ten ($10) nor more than one hundred dollars ($100) for each offense. -KRS 436.320 (Passed 1893; Amended in 1954, Ky. Acts ch. 232, sec. 1)

• No person shall sell, exchange, offer to sell or exchange, display or possess living baby chicks, ducklings, or other fowl or rabbits which have been dyed or colored; nor dye or color any baby chicks, ducklings or other fowl or rabbits; nor sell, exchange, offer to sell or exchange or to give away baby chicks, ducklings or other fowl or rabbits, under two months of age in any quantity less than six, except that any rabbit weighing three pounds or more may be sold at an age of six weeks. Any person who violates this section shall be fined not less than $100 nor more than $500. -KRS 436.600 (Passed 1966 Ky. Acts ch. 215, sec. 5.)

• Owensboro: A woman may not buy a hat without her husband's permission. One may not receive anal sex.

All bees entering Kentucky shall be accompanied by certificates of health, stating that the apiary from which the bees came was free from contagious or infectious disease. -KRS 252.130 (Passed in 1922; Repealed in 1948)

Answer 2

Strange Indiana Laws:



Waitresses may not carry drinks into a restaurant or bar.



Hotel sheets must be exactly 99 inches long and 81 inches wide.



If any person has a puppet show, wire dancing or tumbling act in the state of Indiana and receives money for it, they will be fined $3 under the Act to Prevent Certain Immoral Practices.



Anyone 14 or older who profanely curses, damns or swears by the name of God, Jesus Christ or the Holy Ghost, shall be fined one to three dollars for each offense, with a maximum fine of ten dollars per day.



A three dollar fine per pack will be imposed on anyone playing cards in Indiana under the Act for the Prevention of Gaming.



The value of Pi is 3.





It is illegal for a man to be sexually aroused in public.





One may not sniff glue.





A person must get a referral from a licensed physician if he or she wishes to see a hypnotist unless the desired procedure is to quit smoking or lose weight.





Baths may not be taken between the months of October and March.



It is illegal to sell cars on Sunday.



Oral sex is illegal.



A man over the age of 18 may be arrested for statutory rape if the passenger in his car is not wearing her socks and shoes, and is under the age of 17.



It is against the law to pass a horse on the street.



It is illegal for a liquor store to sell cold soft drinks.





Liquor stores may not sell milk.





Grocery stores may not sell any type of cold liquor.



You can get out of paying for a dependent's medical care by praying for him/her.





One man may not back into a parking spot because it prevents police officers from seeing the license plate.



Smoking in the state legislature building is banned, except when the legislature is in session.

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# Monkeys are forbidden to smoke cigarettes in South Bend.



# In Gary, it is illegal to attend the theater within four hours of eating garlic.



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* In Indiana, it's against the law to dress "Barbie" in "Ken's" clothes.

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INDIANA Mustaches are illegal if the bearer has a "tendency to habitually kiss other humans."

Answer 3

I live in Alabama and it's illegal to drive barefoot.

Answer 4

• Boston: It is illegal to play the fiddle. Two people may not kiss in front of a church. No more than two baths may be taken within the confines of the city. No one may cross the Boston Common without carrying a shotgun in case of bears. Anyone may let their sheep and cows graze in the public gardens/commons at any time except o Sundays. It is illegal to eat peanuts in church. An old law prohibits the taking of baths on Sunday. Duels to the death permitted on the common on Sundays provided that the Governor is present. Women may not wear heels over 3 inches in length while on the common. No one may take a bath without a prescription. It is illegal for any citizen to own more than three dogs.

Answer 5

In North Carolina If a man and a woman who aren't married go to a hotel/motel and register themselves as married then, according to state law, they are legally married.

Answer 6

Missouri

• Anyone under the age of 21 who takes out household trash containing even a single empty alcohol beverage container can be charged with illegal possession of alcohol in Missouri.

• Buckner: In this small town of only 4,000, yard waste may be burned any day except Sunday.

• Excelsior Springs: Hard objects may not be thrown by hand. Worrying squirrels is not tolerated.

• In Ballwin, Mo., the only place you can use vulgar, obscene or indecent language is in your home.

• In Merryville women are prohibited from wearing corsets because "the privilege of admiring the curvaceous, unencumbered body of a young woman should not be denied to the normal, red-blooded American male."

• In Springfield, door to door salesman are prohibited from selling their goods while standing in the middle of the road, screaming at passing vehicles.

• In St. Louis, a law on the books makes it illegal to park your car without turning off the engine. This was to avoid scaring horses.

• It is illegal to have oral sex.

• It is not illegal to speed.

• Kansas City: Minors are not allowed to purchase cap pistols, however they may buy shotguns freely. Installation of bathtubs with four legs resembling animal paws is prohibited.

• Marceline: Minors can buy rolling paper and tobacco but not lighters.

• Marquette: It is illegal for more than four unrelated persons to occupy the same dwelling (The Brothel Law).

• Mole: Frightening a baby is in violation of the law.

• Natchez: It shall be unlawful to provide beer or other intoxicants to elephants.

• Purdy: Dancing is strictly prohibited.

• St. Louis: It's illegal to sit on the curb of any city street and drink beer from a bucket. This law refers back to the extinct Italian celebration, Hill Day, when beer was served in buckets. A milk man may not run while on duty.

• University City: Four women may not rent an apartment together.

Answer 7

•Automobiles are not to pass horse drawn carriages on the street.

•Bernards Township: It is illegal to frown as the town is a "Frown-Free Town Zone".

• Caldwell: You may not dance or wear shorts on the main avenue.

• Car dealerships are forbidden from opening on Sunday.

• Cranford: Citizens are not permitted to park their own boat on their lawn.

• Cresskill: All cats must wear three bells to warn birds of their whereabouts.

• Elizabeth: It is forbidden for a woman, on a Sunday, to walk down Broad Street without wearing a petticoat.

• If you have been convicted of driving while intoxicated, you may never again apply for personalized license plates.

• In Berkley Heights you may not walk your cattle on the street on Sunday.

• It's illegal in New Jersey for parents to give their children under the age of 18 even a sip of alcohol.

• It is against the law for a man to knit during the fishing season.

• It is against the law to "frown" at a police officer.

• It is illegal to delay or detain a homing pigeon.

• Lovers in Liberty Corner should avoid satisfying their lustful urges in a parked car. If the horn accidentally sounds while they are frolicking behind the wheel, the couple can face a jail term.

• Manville: It is illegal to offer whiskey or cigarettes to animals a the local zoo.

• Ocean City:Pinball machines are not to be played on Sunday.

• On a highway you can not park under a bridge.

• Raritan: Profanity is prohibited.

• Raw hamburger may not be sold.

• Sea Isle City: There will be no boiling of bones on the property.

• There is no horse racing allowed on the New Jersey Turnpike.

• Trenton: You may not throw a bad pickle in the street. Pickles are not to be consumed on Sundays.

• Unless you have a doctor's note, it's illegal to buy ice cream after 6 PM in Newark, New Jersey.

• You cannot pump your own gas. All gas stations are full service and full service only.

• You may not slurp your soup.

Answer 8

well in wellsboro,PA about an hour from where i live they made a law stating its illegal to juggle on an airplane or another good pa one is It is contrary to Pennsylvania law to discharge a gun, cannon, revolver or other explosive weapon at a wedding...............lol

Answer 9

In Alabama, this is unlawful to place ice cream on cherry pie. in one place, this is unlawful to dip pickles in ice cream in public. till some years in the past, it advance into criminal to kill a member of the LDS church in Missouri (extermination order from governor Lilburn Boggs in the late 1830's wasn't taken off the books till particularly those days). In California, that's prohibited for a minor to purchase a capgun -- this is, a pretend gun that would not shoot something, yet makes shooting sounds -- yet there is no regulation on the books that restricts them from paying for a real gun. in one place, that's prohibited for a guy to marry his widow's sister (this is impossible via fact if he has a widow, he's ineffective).

Answer 10

Texas Crazy Law

It is illegal to take more than three sips of beer at a time while standing.





A recently passed anticrime law requires criminals to give their victims 24 hours notice, either orally or in writing, and to explain the nature of the crime to be committed.



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It is unlawful for a person to consume an alcoholic beverage while operating a motor vehicle upon a public roadway, if the person is observed doing so by a peace officer.





The entire Encyclopedia Britannica is banned in Texas because it contains a formula for making beer at home.





When two trains meet each other at a railroad crossing, each shall come to a full stop, and neither shall proceed until the other has gone.





It is illegal to drive without windshield wipers. You don't need a windshield, but you must have the wipers.





You can be legally married by publically introducing a person as your husband or wife 3 times.





A city ordinance states that a person cannot go barefoot without first obtaining a special five-dollar permit.





It is illegal for one to shoot a buffalo from the second story of a hotel.





It is illegal to milk another person's cow.





Abilene

It is illegal to idle or loiter anyplace within the corporate limits of the city for the purpose of flirting or mashing.





Austin

Wire cutters can not be carried in your pocket.





Beaumont

Collegiate football is banned at Lamar University.





Borger

It is against the law to throw confetti, rubber balls, feather dusters, whips or quirts (riding crop), and explosive firecrackers of any kind.





Clarendon

It is illegal to dust any public building with a feather duster.





El Paso

Churches, hotels, halls of assembly, stores, markets, banking rooms, railroad depots, and saloons are required to provide spittoons "of a kind and number to efficiently contain expectorations into them."





Houston

Beer may not be purchased after midnight on a Sunday, but it may be purchased on Monday.





It is illegal to sell Limburger cheese on Sunday.





Galveston

It is illegal to drive a motor car down Broadway before noon on Sundays.





Jasper

Dogs must be on a leash at ALL times. Fine of 100 dollars.





LeFors

It is illegal to take more than three swallows of beer while standing.





Lubbock County

It is illegal to drive within an arm's length of alcohol - including alcohol in someone else's blood stream.





Mesquite

It is illegal for children to have unusual haircuts.





Port Arthur

Obnoxious odors may not be emitted while in an elevator.





Richardson

It is now illegal to place a "for sale" sign on a car if it visible from the street.





It is illegal to do "U Turns".





San Antonio

It is illegal for both sexes to flirt or respond to flirtation using the eyes and/or hands.





It is illegal to urinate on the Alamo.





Temple

No one may ride a horse and buggy through the town square.





You can ride your horse in the saloon.





Cattle thieves may be hanged on the spot.





Texarkana

Owners of horses may not ride them at night without tail lights.

Answer 11

Weird Laws In Indiana

Answer 12

In Calgary, Alberta, Canada, where I live, there is a law still on the books (but not enforced) that businesses within the city must provide rails for tying up horses.



Also if someone is kicked out of the city, they are to be provided with a horse and I think a day's worth of food. Someone tried to get that one enforced a couple of years ago and I think the city had to give it to them, but they probably got rid of that law now.

Answer 13

This law is in effect and I don't know if it's everywhere or just in my state. I live in Maine and it's against the law for stores to sell alcohol after 1:00 am. They will not sell it 1 minute passed 1am.

Answer 14

People who plan their weekly meals are more successful at losing weight than those that don’t. Plan your dishes to add in healthy carbs such as nice potato and wholegrain pasta, green vegetables and lean proteins, buy the many ingredients in advance and don’t be tempted to eat out or order in.

Answer 15

Exercise each morning as compared to nighttime

Answer 16

while dining out try out to have a healthier solution

Answer 17

Eat muesli two hours before exercising to boost fat burning while you train. Slow to digest, muesli takes longer for getting through your system, so is less likely to be turned into fat and still provides a good energy boost.

Answer 18

Eat goats cheese as an alternative to regular cheese. It contains 40 % fewer calories than the cheese created from cow’s milk.

Answer 19

One's body is definitely burning a number of unhealthy calories, and work out enables you to burn up these people more quickly

Answer 20

Beans, beans, are perfect for your heart, the more you eat the more you... lose excess weight actually. Super-effective and full of fibre, beans will regulate your appetite and reduce the rate at which your stomach empties, meaning you continue to be fuller for longer.

Answer 21

Adhere to an increasingly trim protein/green veg eating plan

Answer 22

Suck it in. Consciously hold in and contract your abdominals while you’re walking, sitting pictures desk or making the supper. This will help to strengthen your stomach muscles and your core, and bring you one step closer to a new flatter stomach.

Answer 23

Steer clear of enhanced sweets