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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laws, legal oddities, or legal curiosities, are laws that are perceived to be useless, humorous or obsolete, or are no longer applicable (in regard to current culture or modern law).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.
While many of these laws imposed by states are designed to keep citizens safe, others are weird, strange or just downright silly. And, believe it or not, you can get fined — or worse — for ...
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.
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 ...
Kentucky law-related lists (11 P) C. Capital punishment in Kentucky (2 C, 6 P) Courthouses in Kentucky (2 C, 12 P) Kentucky state courts (2 C, 5 P) Crime in Kentucky ...
[1] [2] Signed by Governor Matt Bevin on April 26, 2018, [3] [4] it was the first such law for permanent child custody orders passed in the United States. [5] [6] A temporary order aided the law's passage of the shared parenting bill, House Bill 492, passed a year before. The law became a motivator for similar bills to be passed in other states ...
Finally, lots of weird laws about bears. Alaska: It's illegal to wake a sleeping bear for a photo. Missouri: It's illegal to drive with an uncaged bear. Oklahoma: It's illegal to wrestle a bear.
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 ...