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Dumb
Laws - Kentucky
• A Kentucky
statute says: "No female shall appear in a bathing suit on any highway
within this state unless she is escorted by at least two officers or unless
she be armed with a club." Later, an amendment proposed: "The provisions of
this statute shall not apply to any female weighing less than sixty pounds
nor exceeding 200 pounds; nor shall it apply to female horses."
• All bees entering Kentucky shall be accompanied by certificates of health,
stating that the
• An excerpt from brilliant Kentucky state legislation. "No female shall
appear in a bathing suit on any highway within this state unless she be
escorted by at least two officers or unless she be armed with a club". The
following important amendment however is to be considered here: "The
provisions of this statute shall not apply to females weighing less than 90
pounds nor exceeding 200 pounds,
• Any person who appears on any highway, or upon the street of any city that
has no police protection, when clothed only in ordinary bathing garb, shall
be fined no less than five dollars nor more than twenty-five dollars." - KRS
436.140
• Any person who displays, handles or uses any kind of reptile in connection
with any religious service or gathering shall be fined not less than fifty
dollars ($50) nor more than one hundred dollars ($100). -KRS 437.060 (Passed
1942, from Ky. Stat. sec. 1267a-1.).
• By law, anyone who has been drinking is "sober" until he or she "cannot
hold onto the ground".
• Frankfort, Kentucky, makes it against the law to shoot off a policeman's
tie.
• It is illegal in Kentucky to marry the same man more than 3 times.
• It is illegal to fish with a bow and arrow in Kentucky.
• It is illegal to shoot game out of the window of a moving vehicle, with
the exception of a whale
• It is illegal to transport an ice cream cone in your pocket.
• It's illegal to fish in the Ohio River in Kentucky without an Indiana
Fishing License.
• Lexington: It is illegal to transport an ice cream cone in your pocket. By
law, anyone who has been drinking is "sober" until he or she "cannot hold
onto the ground."
• No person owning or controlling a billiard or pool table shall permit, for
compensation or reward, any minor under eighteen (18) years of age to play
any game on the table, unless such minor shall have first displayed an
identification card containing his name, age, photograph, and the signature
of his parents or guardian. The minor shall keep such identification card on
his person, and it shall be subject to inspection at any time by any peace
officer. The person owning or controlling such billiard or pool table shall
keep and maintain a registration book in which each minor shall sign. The
person owning or controlling such billiard or pool table shall supply a
blank identification card to each parent or guardian who makes request for
same. Any person who violates this section shall be fined not less than ten
($10) nor more than one hundred dollars ($100) for each offense. -KRS
436.320 (Passed 1893; Amended in 1954, Ky. Acts ch. 232, sec. 1)
• No person shall sell, exchange, offer to sell or exchange, display or
possess living baby chicks, ducklings, or other fowl or rabbits which have
been dyed or colored; nor dye or color any baby chicks, ducklings or other
fowl or rabbits; nor sell, exchange, offer to sell or exchange or to give
away baby chicks, ducklings or other fowl or rabbits, under two months of
age in any quantity less than six, except that any rabbit weighing three
pounds or more may be sold at an age of six weeks. Any person who violates
this section shall be fined not less than $100 nor more than $500. -KRS
436.600 (Passed 1966 Ky. Acts ch. 215, sec. 5.)
• Owensboro: A woman may not buy a hat without her husband's permission. One
may not receive anal sex.
All bees entering Kentucky shall be accompanied by certificates of health,
stating that the apiary from which the bees came was free from contagious or
infectious disease. -KRS 252.130 (Passed in 1922; Repealed in 1948)
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