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While there is no Kentucky law specifying the age at which children can be left home alone, KRS 600.020 determines what constitutes as child abuse and neglect, said Mike Wynn, a spokesperson with ...
Here are some of the weirdest laws in the U.S: Alabama has a distaste for fake mustaches. They are illegal to wear to church with the purpose of making others laugh.
It may come as a surprise, but all of these things are legal in the U.S., at least in some parts. The post 18 Things You Think Are Illegal but Aren’t appeared first on Reader's Digest.
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laws, legal oddities, or legal curiosities, are laws that are perceived to be useless, humorous or obsolete, or are no longer applicable (in regard to current culture or modern law).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.
Colonial America bastardy laws were laws, statutes, or other legal precedents set forth by the English colonies in North America.This page focuses on the rules pertaining to bastardy that became law in the New England colonies of Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Pennsylvania from the early seventeenth century to the late eighteenth century.
[3]: 1 Ugly laws identified groups of people as disturbing the flow of public life and forbid them from public spaces. Such people, deemed "unsightly" or "unseemly", were usually impoverished and often beggars. Thus ugly laws were methods by which lawmakers attempted to remove the poor from sight. [3]: 31–32
Unbeknownst to many, certain commonplace behaviors — which we might dismiss as harmless or trivial — can actually be illegal. Find out if you're guilty of these 12 things.
No white children were allowed to attend any graded common school for colored children and vice versa. 1918: Prisons This law allowed the segregation of races in all municipal, parish, and state prisons. 1921: Education This law called for separate public schools for the education of white and black children between the ages of six and eighteen.