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University Daily Kansan Thursday, Feb. 20, 1964
Pride Seen in 'Unique' Laws
By United Press International
Americans pride themselves on being rugged individualists and during the 187 years of their history as a nation they've produced some mighty individualistic laws.
The nation's talent for producing unique and sometimes bizarre laws in its various states and cities is one of the despairs of purists who dream of a uniform legal code.
Most of the odd laws date from the 19th or even the 18th century. But legislative bodies still manage to add a few periodically.
FOR EXAMPLE, in 1963 Washington's legislature made it a crime to transport lady bugs out of the state. Seems someone had been bugnapping them and shipping them to California.
In the same session, the state's lawmakers derailed an attempt to repeal Washington's ban on carrying toy pistols.
In 1962 New Jersey became the first state to require licensing of municipal planners.
Racing horses within a quarter mile of a church or school, or selling soft drinks near a church or school, is unlawful in Arkansas.
IN LOUISIANA, it is practically impossible to disinherit a parent or a child, no matter how a will reads.
Classic example of unique laws are Delaware's whipping post and Texas' right to divide itself into as many as four states. But few outside Illinois know about that state's proportional representation, which provides for cumulative voting for the lower house of the state legislature and allows a single voter to cast as many as three votes.
In Arizona a $100 license is required for efforts to modify or control the weather.
Florida allows notary publics to perform marriages under an 1860 law.
CALIFORNIA'S AGRICULTUR-
Boyd to Address KU Supporters
McDill "Huck" Boyd, candidate for governor of Kansas, will address the newly formed Collegians for "Huck" Boyd Club 7:30 p.m. Feb. 26 in the Big Eight Room of the Kansas Union.
John Dunn, Hutchinson junior, who is chairman of Boyd's KU supporters, said the meeting would be open to the public.
Over 200 KU students have signed pledges to support Boyd, Dunn said.
Boyd, a Phillipsburg publisher and newspaperman, is chairman of the Kansas Citizen's Council on Education. He is also vice-president of the Kansas Mental Health Association.
In the Republican Party, Boyd is First District Republican chairman. He managed Dwight Eisenhower's Kansas presidential campaign and Bob Dole's congressional campaign.
As a candidate for governor Boyd has proposed a committee of college students to advise the governor and to offer new ideas on state administration.
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al code officially classifies bees as livestock. Another California law makes it a crime to bet on the outcome of an election.
Mississippi has the nation's highest paid sheriffs under a state law which designates them as tax collectors and allows them a percentage of all taxes collected. Some sheriffs earn as much as $100,000 a year.
OREGON'S PRESIDENTIAL primary act requires its secretary of state to place on the ballot the names of all persons he thinks might be contenders for presidential nominations of the major parties.
Michigan still authorizes one man grand juries despite a decade long drive to repeal the law.
Everyone knows Nevada is the only state in the nation to permit all types of gambling. Less known is South Dakota's law permitting betting at horse and dog tracks despite a prohibition in the state's constitution.
A newly-adopted Mississippi law allows disqualification of a voter on moral grounds.
In Montana, Sunday liquor sale
is against the law, but the act creating the state's Liquor Control Board allows it.
It's also illegal in Montana to carry a frying pan on the open range with the intent of using it to obliterate livestock brands. Even if you have bacon and beans in the skillet, you're in trouble if there's cow or horse hair on the bottom.
Two of the grand old odd laws went off the books in the past two years.
In 1962, South Carolina repealed its ban on charging extra fares on trains for crossing bridges on Sunday.
And in 1963 Georgia repealed its law allowing farmers to buy fireworks to scare crowds out of the corn field.
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