Actually, Los Angeles passed that code. Hollywood isn’t a governmental agency, it’s just a district of L.A., and doesn’t even have any defined boundaries. And the law only applies to Hollywood Blvd. on Halloween night. It’s because the street becomes a near riotous bacchanalia on that night, and people were squirting Silly String on just about any passer-by. Plus it was a mess to clean up the next day. Cite.
It’s similar with the driving down the same street in the same direction twice in an hour: it was to prevent cruising, and only enforced on cruising night. Obviously it couldn’t be enforced all the time everywhere.
My dad and I shop at a Price Chopper in Kansas every Sunday night. You can buy beer before 8pm. We try to shop before then so my dad can get his…non-alcoholic beer.
One of the towns in north Jersey has an ordinance prohibiting eating in a car.
Talk radio guys occasionally talk about it and folks call up telling their tales of getting busted in the parking lot of Mickey D’s with burger in hand. Apparently it’s aimed at reducing littering. They have warnings posted at fast food drive through windows.
Bolding mine. A trailer (including the one the boat sits on) most certainly has to be registered at the DMV (Department of Motor Vehicles), and is therefore taxed. If your post was accurate, it’d be illegal to tow a boat behind your vehicle.
I heard a news report about nasty car accident in L.A. with serious injuries (maybe even a death), and the driver at fault said he lost control of his steering wheel because he was eating KFC and his fingers were too greasy.
Until a couple years ago, hunting with a gun on a Sunday was illegal in Ontario. I think this was the last vestige of our Blue Laws, but I wouldn’t doubt that a few absurd lines still exist buried somewheres in our books.
It’s illegal to whistle in Evanston, Illinois, home of Northwestern University “particularly between the hours of 11 p.m. and 7 a.m.,” per the city’s Noise Ordinance.
I can’t buy these cookie decorations in California, nor can I legally have them shipped here, which is really annoying since my grandma always put them on cookies when I was a kid and I’m nostalgic for [del]breaking my teeth on[/del] them.:mad:
The cut Christmas tree ban is also in some Maryland jurisdictions near DC. The logic is the hazzard due to fire but it makes some assumptions about the harvest timeline that don’t hold up. Probably better to sell them early and get them in some water versus requiring they be stored out of town for a few weeks (already cut is some cases).
Cite regarding Pennsylvania’s ban on selling cars on Sundays:
I’d quote the actual Pennsylvania code but the commonwealth website is so arcane and the search function so useless that it’d take me hours to find it.
I retract my statement regarding backyard chickens in Colorado. The ban may technically be on the state books but it doesn’t seem to be enforced.
I’m not particularly moved to try to find descriptions of the Texas blue laws circa 1976 for the purposes of citing a childhood memory.
I’d read it in a newspaper once. But here is something. Upon further research it was probably made up. Probably similar to the law regarding shooting Welshmen in Bristol.
