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March 1, 2024, marks Ohio's 221st birthday. That's right: the Buckeye State was officially granted statehood on March 1, 1803 — 27 years after the United States declared independence from ...
Strange laws, also called weird laws, dumb laws, futile laws, unusual laws, unnecessary laws, legal oddities, or legal curiosities, are laws that are perceived to be useless, humorous or obsolete, or are no longer applicable (in regard to current culture or modern law). A number of books and websites purport to list dumb laws.
From 1867 to 1974, various cities of the United States had unsightly beggar ordinances, retroactively named ugly laws. [1] These laws targeted poor people and disabled people . For instance, in San Francisco a law of 1867 deemed it illegal for "any person, who is diseased, maimed, mutilated or deformed in any way, so as to be an unsightly or ...
Weird Ohio: Your Travel Guide to Ohio's Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets. Sterling (January 2006). Loren Coleman, Andy Henderson, James A Willis. ISBN 1-4027-3382-8; Weird Oklahoma: Your Travel Guide to Oklahoma's Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets. Sterling (June 2011). Wesley Treat, Mark Sceurman and Mark Moran. ISBN 1-4027-5436-1
From a statute that could keep Bigfoot from harm to punishment for carrying too much gum, there are countless bizarre and antiquated laws in the United States and abroad. 41 Weird Laws From Around ...
Ohio’s traffic laws made a pivotal change this year, and some new legislation could call for more change in the new year. In January, Gov. Mike DeWine signed a new distracted driving law , which ...
The only official publication of the enactments of the General Assembly is the Laws of Ohio; the Ohio Revised Code is only a reference. [4] A maximum 900 copies of the Laws of Ohio are published and distributed by the Ohio Secretary of State; there are no commercial publications other than a microfiche republication of the printed volumes. [5]
Check out the slideshow above to discover nine weird, funny and absurd but true food laws. More From Kitchen Daily: Six Weird Food Tours in America Why Gazpacho Isn't Taxed: And Other Weird Food Taxes