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10 of the strangest Ohio laws. Here are 10 weird Ohio laws you might have heard about, some from decades ago and some from as recently as 2023. 1. If your dangerous animal escapes, you have to ...
A lot of purportedly strange laws within European Union law do not actually exist, or are wildly exaggerated; these are referred to as Euromyths. Misrepresented Commission Regulation (EC) No. 2257/94 , sometimes referred to in the media as the 'bendy banana law': the alleged ban on curved bananas is a long-standing, famous, and stereotypical ...
Penalty: If companies fail to enforce the law required to pay a forfeit of $100, half to be paid to the person suing, the other half to be paid to the state's school fund. 1882: Railroads [Statute] 1881: law amended to state that railroads required to supply first-class passenger cars to all persons paying first-class rates. Penalty: $300 fine ...
Enforcement of Ohio's Black Laws appear to have been generally episodic and arbitrary, lightly enforced on the whole, but occasionally used to threaten and intimidate black residents of the state. In 1818 Wayne Township, where Portsmouth was located at the time, the township's constable was paid $4.18 to warn out blacks and mulattos.
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 be 2021, but some of the antiquated and downright bizarre laws that remain in place around the world (or that have recently been enacted) would make you think otherwise. From bans on what ...
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 ...
Check out the slideshow above to discover nine weird, funny and absurd but true food laws. More From Kitchen Daily: Six Weird Food Tours in America Why Gazpacho Isn't Taxed: And Other Weird Food Taxes