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Top 10 'crazy laws' as provided by the Governor's office
WIS TV ^ | 14 May 2008 | Bryce Mursch

Posted on 05/14/2008 12:14:04 PM PDT by aomagrat

COLUMBIA, SC (WIS TV) - Gov. Mark Sanford is signing legislation that lets people shampoo hair in salons without having taken the mandated 1,500 hours of training for a cosmetology license.

The measure exempts from licensing requirements salon employees whose sole duty is to wash hair.

Sanford says the current law for shampooing is an example of the wacky South Carolina laws that shouldn't be in place.

A 'top 10 list' of such laws and proposals provided by the Governor's office follows:

1. State law requires an individual to complete 1,500 hours of instruction to become a cosmetologist. It takes more hours of licensing to become a cosmetologist in SC than it does to become a police officer (396 hours) or carry a concealed weapon (8 hours).

2. Caskets and Stones, a retail funeral store in Greenwood, submitted their license application, paid their fee, were scheduled to go before the Board of Funeral Directors, and were told they could open. But then the Board gave them a "cease and desist" order * essentially telling them to stop selling caskets. The Board fined them $1,500 for "opening before their Board appointment." They had to pay it before they could get their license.

3. Fortune Tellers are required to obtain a special permit in order to operate in South Carolina.

4. A proposed bill would require high school football and basketball playoff games to have replay for officials to use during these games.

5. Barbering schools are required by law to have at least ten instructional chairs *and those chairs are required by law to be upholstered and finished exactly the same way.

6. In 2003, a bill was introduced that would have required all drinking straws in South Carolina be sold in individual wrappers. The bill almost led to a fist fight on the House floor.

7. The fourth Friday in October in each year is designated by law in public schools as Frances Willard Day, and each public school is required "to prepare and render a suitable program on the day to the end that the children of the state may be taught the evils of intemperance."

8. Circuses cannot exceed 48 hours at one place in any one year.

9. If a menu or advertisement states "frozen dessert," it must correctly state the specific frozen dessert that is offered for sale so as not to mislead the consumer.

10. Musical instruments are not allowed to be sold on Sunday.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; US: South Carolina
KEYWORDS: donutwatch; dumblaws; nannystate; proceduralscrime; redtape
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To: weegee

Do you wrap your coke and beer cans?

:)


21 posted on 05/14/2008 2:13:50 PM PDT by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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To: Rogle
It is illegal to have the hind legs of farm animals in your boots.

I pretty much have to agree with that one!

22 posted on 05/14/2008 2:30:38 PM PDT by Dumpster Baby (Eschew obfuscation)
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To: Little Bill

Ya’ noticed that did ya’?


23 posted on 05/15/2008 10:01:50 AM PDT by Locomotive Breath
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To: Locomotive Breath

I read a lot of history and wonder about relationships in that era. Look at Jane Addams and Hull House a lot of strange things going about in that era, the love that has no name?


24 posted on 05/15/2008 8:35:13 PM PDT by Little Bill (Welcome to the Newly Socialist State of New Hampshire)
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