Are you aware of some funny state laws?

There are laws that prohibit fortune telling on state property. It’s sometimes enforced.

Liquor stores are illegal in Barrington, RI.

In Mass and RI, a room is not considered a bedroom unless it has a closet.

Blue Laws.

In Intercourse, Pennsylvania the speed limit is what ever is safe and proper.

Edit it might be a city in Montana.

In Illinois where I live you may be arrested for vagrancy if you do not have at least one dollar bill on your person.

Some old funny Provincial laws in Quebec it is illegal to threaten a Butterfly.
In Quebec city it is illegal to be on the street after midnight without being in a three piece suit.
It is illegal to back a horse and buggy through an intersection.
Very old laws but for some reason have never been strickened from the books.

@RedDeerGuy1 I remember as a kid that speed limits in a bunch of the states West of the Missouri was “reasonable and proper”

The state of Michigan just passed an anti-sodomy law a few days ago. That’s pretty funny considering that 13 years ago the Supreme Court of the United States ruled all such laws unconstitutional.

@SQUEEKY2

My guess is that a lot of these old laws are eventually rendered obsolete and unenforceable, ether via technological changes, changing social mores or newer laws superseding them, and the various cities, states, etc just kinda figure it’s not worth the bother to go through the process to technically remove them from the books. And over time most such laws are kinda forgotten about until someone comes across it in some old statute book and it becomes a bit of funny trivia.

@Darth_Algar That sounds probably right, ya just got to wonder how they became law in the first place.

In Florida premarital cohabitation is still illegal, and has been since 1868.

It’s actively enforced, too. You can be fined $500 and get up to 60 days in jail for living with an intimate partner.

Texas:

CHAPTER 43. PUBLIC INDECENCY; SUBCHAPTER B. OBSCENITY makes it up to a felony charge can be levied for promoting the use of, or owning more than six dildos.

A recently passed anti-crime law requires criminals to give their victims 24 hours notice, either orally or in writing, and to explain the nature of the crime to be committed.

The Texas Constitution
Article 1 – BILL OF RIGHTS
Section 4 – RELIGIOUS TESTS

No religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office, or public trust, in this State; nor shall any one be excluded from holding office on account of his religious sentiments, provided he acknowledge the existence of a Supreme Being.

In LeFors, Texas – It is illegal to take more than three swallows of beer while standing.

In Mesquite, Texas – It is illegal for children to have unusual haircuts.

In Temple, Texas – Cattle thieves may be hanged on the spot.

In Houston, Texas – the law states that it is illegal for beer to be purchased after midnight on Sunday but, it can be purchased on Monday.

A recently passed anti-crime law requires criminals to give their victims 24 hours notice, either orally or in writing, and to explain the nature…

This is hilarious…did they even think before passing such law??

A few years back Tennessee passed a law requiring those who made money from the sale of illicit goods to purchase some something or other from the state as a means of compensating the state for the untaxed revenue. The law lasted like five minutes before the courts struck it down on Constitutional grounds.