Posted on 12/25/2011 5:31:15 AM PST by diverteach
Amen. I've been preaching that all laws over 50 years old should be sunsetted in five years and then sunsetted as you suggest. The pols would be so busy defending some of the old ones they wouldn't have time to create new ones. That, and the fact that they couldn't interpret some old wacky law to allow them to convict someone they deemed unworthy.
That would play Hell with precedence, but then that would cause the judiciary to go back and crack the books - with the same result.
This is a listing from another site which maybe the same list as your link gives, not sure.
http://forums.officer.com/showthread.php?148082-50-Bizarre-US-Laws
Alabama
Its illegal to wear a fake mustache that causes laughter in church.
Alaska
Whispering in someones ear while hes moose hunting is prohibited.
Arizona
Cutting down a cactus may earn you a twenty-five-year prison term.
Arkansas
Its illegal to mispronounce the name of the state of Arkansas.
California
You may not eat an orange in your bathtub.
Colorado
Its unlawful to lend your vacuum cleaner to your next-door neighbor (Denver).
Connecticut
A pickle cannot actually be a pickle unless it bounces.
Delaware
Its illegal to get married on a dare.
Washington, D.C.
Its against the law to post a public notice calling someone a coward for refusing to accept a challenge to duel.
Florida
If you tie an elephant to a parking meter, you must pay the same parking fee as you would for a vehicle.
Georgia
Its illegal to change the clothes on a storefront mannequin unless you draw the shades first.
Hawaii
All residents may be fined for not owning a boat.
Idaho
A man must not give his sweetheart a box of candy weighing fewer than fifty pounds.
Illinois
Its illegal to take a French poodle to the opera (Chicago).
Indiana
The value of pi is 4, and not 3.1415.
Iowa
One-armed piano players must perform for free.
Kansas
Its illegal to throw knives at men wearing striped suits (Natoma).
Kentucky Frank, This ones for you.
Every citizen is required to take a shower once a year.
Louisiana
Biting someone with your natural teeth constitutes simple assault, but biting someone with your false teeth classifies as aggravated assault.
Maine
If you keep your Christmas decorations on display after January 14, youll be fined.
Maryland
Its against the law to wash or scrub a sink, no matter how dirty it is (Baltimore).
Massachusetts
No gorilla is allowed in the backseat of any car.
Michigan
A woman may not cut her own hair without her husbands permission.
Minnesota
Its illegal to paint a sparrow with the intent of selling it as a parakeet (Harper Woods).
Mississippi
Walking a dog without dressing it in diapers is forbidden (Temperance).
Missouri
Children may buy shotguns in Kansas City, but not toy cap guns.
Montana
Its a felony for a wife to open her husbands mail.
Nebraska
Bar owners may not sell beer unless they brew a kettle of soup simultaneously.
Nevada
Its illegal for men with mustaches to kiss women.
New Hampshire
Its forbidden to sell the clothes youre wearing to pay off a gambling debt.
New Jersey
Its against the law for a man to knit during the fishing season.
New Mexico
Females may not appear unshaven in public.
New York
While riding in an elevator, you must talk to no one, fold your hands, and look toward the door.
North Carolina
Its against the law to sing off-key.
North Dakota
Its illegal to lie down and fall asleep with your shoes on.
Ohio
You must honk the horn whenever you pass another car, according to the states drivers education manual.
Oklahoma
Its forbidden to take a bite out of another persons hamburger.
Oregon
State law requires dishes to be drip-dried.
Pennsylvania
Its illegal to sleep on top of a refrigerator outdoors.
Rhode Island
You may not bite off another persons leg.
South Carolina
If a man promises to marry an unmarried woman, he is required by law to keep his promise.
South Dakota
It is illegal to lie down and fall asleep in a cheese factory.
Tennessee
Selling hollow logs is strictly forbidden.
Texas
You may not shoot a buffalo from the second story of a hotel.
Utah
It is illegal not to drink milk.
Vermont
Women must obtain written permission from their husbands to wear false teeth.
Virginia
Tickling a woman is unlawful.
Washington
Its illegal to pretend that ones parents are wealthy.
West Virginia
If you make fun of someone who does not accept a challenge, you risk a six-month prison sentence.
Wisconsin
Unless a customer specifically requests it, margarine may not be substituted for butter in a restaurant.
Wyoming
Unless you have an official permit, you may not take a picture of a rabbit from January to April.
In 23 states, it is illegal to mistake Janet Napolitano for Ernest Borgnine.
Why the excerpt? You could have posted the entire article here...
Not as good as a Gun Porn thread, but some funny laws here.
Wonder what my wife would get for the last time she got her hair cut w/o telling me?
Merry Christmas all.
All laws should have a sunset clause
Excellent concept!
Great idea!
Then the politicians wouldn’t be continually addingto the thousands already passed;they could stay busy just keeping what is really needed current.
Arizona had some laws that appeared dumb, but had some wisdom behind them.
To start with the cutting down cactus law. It’s mostly for saguaro cactus, which is almost unique to Arizona, and a taller saguaro may be 200-300 years old. About once a decade, some dummy decides to cut one down with a shotgun, resulting in a half ton of cactus falling on him.
Hunting camels is prohibited. In territorial days, the US Army tried importing camels, but the idea went bust, so they let them go free. They are now extinct, but it’s a pity. Arizona misses them, but they just do not get along with horses, mules, or burros.
Donkeys are prohibited from sleeping in bathtubs. Unlike mules, donkeys are the sweetest, nicest, friendliest and most likely to want to hang out with you animal next to dogs. And like dogs, they prefer to be inside with the people than outside in the cold. And given their druthers, they would likely try to nap in a tub if they could, and it’s *not good* for donkeys to sleep in bathtubs.
A law in old Kingman specified that anyone caught stealing bar soap would, under the watchful gaze of a lawman, be required to bathe in a washtub, and use the entire bar of soap(*) to clean his person.
(*) If you have ever washed with homemade lye soap with no buffers, you know why this is a pretty serious punishment.
One rather paradoxical law of territorial days was at least in part, rather foresighted. A husband was permitted to beat his wife only once a month, no more; but in the commentary of the law it was noted that wives were under no such restrictions on beating their husbands, as if they needed to do so, generally their need was greater.
From the article:
Arkansas -
Its illegal to mispronounce the name of the state of Arkansas.
G. Legman discuses a speech purportedly given sometime in the 1800s by a famous Arkansan (politician) on the proposal to pronounce the name of Arkansas like the name Kansas — “are kansas”. Maybe the law is based on that.
I’d go look it up, but it is one of the most exquisitely obscene rants in history. Legman claims there is no proof that the man existed or that the speech was really given but true or not I can’t post it here.
Merry Christmas all!
Santa brought me a new Ruger LC9.
That actually would be a pretty good campaign issue for Republicans.
Run on passing legislation, that would make all existing legislation subject to sunset.
Seriously.
It’s simple, and effective. And a lot of people will support it.
So GOP. Do it.
Stop the milquetoast nonsense. FIX THINGS.
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I think maybe Republicans should propose all laws (as opposed to Constitutional rights, for example) all laws, should be retroactively be modified by law, to have an automatic sunset no longer than one generation. Say, 20 years.
If a law is really necessary and logical, the next generation will think so also.
Otherwise, it’s gone. If something is needed to replace it, it will have to be written again, and be justified.
Seriously this would solve a lot of what is wrong with America right now - mostly we pass ever more laws.
So let’s start getting rid of a lot of them, with one simple solution. Sunset all of them after a generation.
Every single law.
No exceptions.
In my home town years ago, the city enacted an ordinance against having sex “in a public place, or a private place in view of a public place”. That one got some laughs because of how the words could be interpreted, but the intent seems clear enough. Florence Oregon.
Meanwhile, some things folks just take for granted are not in law at all. Not too many years ago in Eugene Oregon there were some yoots making trouble downtown. One time they decided to all gather around the storefronts wearing mud (and nothing else). The cops hauled them in but when it came time to quote a chapter & verse for charges they couldn't find one in city or county code or state statutes. There was (and far as I know it remains so) no law against public nudity. The cops had to let them go.
I remember a couple years ago there was a segment on O’Reilly where he made a lot of noise over another person (somewhere close to Portland) who had been exploiting the same absence of legislation. Being a some time Oregonian who thinks he knows everything, I thought he came off real idiotic in his rant because he clearly had no idea what that person was doing was not against the law - and as we know in the sphere of morals O’Reilly has no legitimate claim to superiority!
I’m going to have to check that one out next time I am at ye olde trading post...
You appear to have cut your hair!
That’s not me! LOL
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