Are there even other kinds of blue laws?
Anyway, a friend is going to be travelling to North Carolina for work for two weeks, and after an unpleasant surprise to Seattle last weekend, she wants to know what the blue laws are in Raleigh, NC before she gets there.
There’s gotta be some site that has this kind of info, but damned if I can find it. Little help, please?
…an unpleasant surprise on her trip to Seattle… :smack:
Yes, there are other blue laws such as …not spitting on sidewalks in months ending in “r” … or something like that.
Now, as to where to find them, I got nothin.
There are blue laws in some towns in New Jersey that require all businesses except those that provide essential items or services to be closed on Sundays.
I’m not sure if they are still in effect though.
Polycarp, Skulldigger and Triskadecamus are the only NC dopers I can bring to mind, but all should be able to help.
Wrongo!!
Spitting chewing tobacco is acceptable 24hrs a day, seven days a week and all year long.
The liquor stores are all state-run and close ridiculously early, so you have to stock up early in the evening, go to a bar, or do without spirits after 8 or 9pm. The ABC stores aren’t open at all on Sundays, and I’m not at all sure about holidays. Beer and wine are available at grocery and convenience stores 7 days a week, but they stop selling between 1am and some hour that’s way too early in the morning to be buying booze anyway.
Blue laws didn’t have to do with booze or Sundays. Anything that attempted to regulate public behavior would qualify. Eg: In 1913, Portland, Oregon banned the tango.
It was once illegal to sell meat after 6pm or on weekends in Washington.
As far as acohol blue laws, we’ve come a long way… it used to be illegal for women to sit at the bar in a cocktail lounge. Carrying one’s drink from one table to another was also prohibited. Liquor of any kind (even beer) couldn’t be purchased after 2 am, and never on Sunday.
These laws changed in the '70s
The only funky law I know about in North Carolina is that you can’t buy booze of any sort on Sunday before noon - not in the grocery stores and not in the restaurants (grocery stores here can sell beer and wine). Currently it is also illegal to sell beer that is over 6 percent alcohol, but that may be changing . The big question will be whether grocery stores will still be able to sell beer or not if the law passes - I hope so, I think it’s fairly stupid that wine (many varieties of which are more than 6% alcohol) is already OK but beer wouldn’t be.
Hey!
I am not in North Carolina. I’m not in any Carolina at all! See my location? . . . Oh, well, that won’t help. But I assure you, I am not in North Carolina.
Tris