What are the things that are legal in your state but not in other states and vice versa?

In Alberta you only need a masters degree to practice psychology. Other provinces require a ph.d.

Private investigator is a licensed profession in most of the US.

But in Idaho, Mississippi and South Dakota you can simply hang a sign and declare yourself a private eye.

Pot is not legal in my state but is in others such as CO and WA.

USA here.

Some states it’s illegal to pass on the right on a highway, other states it’s legal.

Some states allow first cousins to marry, but most don’t.

Around half the states allow corporal punishment in public schools.

Spitting in public is illegal in most cities in the US. Fines vary. I guess maybe some places it’s not illegal, because I have known more than one person surprised it’s illegal anywhere. Think about if it was legal to spit on the sidewalk in NYC?! Just no. Gross.

Laws regarding divorce vary by state. Some states there are 50/50 laws, others not.

Some states it is legal to have open alcohol in a car, others you can’t.

In Oregon and New Jersey, it’s illegal to pump your own gas.

@JLeslie – So if a couple got married in the state in which it’s allowed and later moved to state where it isn’t will they face any issues later suppose for any state sponsored program etc.?

@imrainmaker If you marry legally in any state, that marriage is recognized as legal in all fifty states.

I thought so..just wanted to confirm… )

^^The other state probably wouldn’t even know they were first cousins, because all they would be presenting at the other state, if they moved, if they were forced to present anything, is their marriage license. The license doesn’t say anything about it, the questionnaire for the license probably asked the question. Possibly, not though. Possibly, you’re just expected to know the law.

I think there are still a few states that do not accept the marriage as valid if you are first cousins married in another state. That’s the law on the books anyway, I doubt it’s enforced though. For the most part states have reciprocal agreements about marriage and acknowledge any other states’ legal marriage.

A clear, and fairly recent, example where states did not acknowledge another states marriage because of their own laws is gay marriage. Gay marriage, for years, the reciprocal agreement was not being used, gay married people were not married in their new state, if they moved to a state without gay marriage. That’s been fixed now. It was fixed at a federal level. A lot of people argued marriage has always been a state level thing, and the fed stepping in was overreaching.

You can eat roadkill here in Tennessee and that is a good thing. People hit deer with cars all the time. No reason for the meat to go to waste.

@JLeslie ”... For the most part states have reciprocal agreements about marriage and acknowledge any other states’ legal marriage.

The “reciprocal agreement” is called the U.S. Constitution.

@zenvelo But, there are states that have laws that don’t go by the constitution (annoyingly the case on too many issues). I guess the recent Supreme Court decision takes care of any questions about cousin marriages, not only gay marriages? I don’t know the exact wording of the Supreme Court decisions. As I said, I don’t think any of the laws would be enforced if still on the books anyway. Not only because the federal law of the land says so, but also because I just don’t think there was any practice to question a marriage in any way from another state.

But, there are states that have laws that don’t go by the constitution (annoyingly the case on too many issues)

No, state laws cannot be unconstitutional any more than Federal laws.

New York does not honor hand gun concealed carry permits from other states so most states do not honor New York’s. To carry concealed in other states a New Yorker must get a permit in a state that is honored by others with a reciprocal agreement.
I know someone who has a permit in New York and another state which allows him to carry in ~40 states.

@Call_Me_Jay As far as I know they sometimes are, and then they work their way up through the court system to the Supreme Court, and then finally the court decides if it’s constitutional or not. The Supreme Court decided cases based on our constitution, while states look to current law in the state, of course all state laws are supposed to be in line with our constitution. The thing is the constitution is not a very detailed document, there is a lot left to interpretation, and many states seem to not give a shit about the constitution if their religion or moral compass tells them differently.

These laws have to be exclusive to the individual states:

- In Arkansas, it is illegal to mispronounce Arkansas.
– In California, frogs that die in frog-jumping contests may not be eaten.
– In Hawaii, owning a hamster is illegal.
– In Massachusetts, it is illegal to dance to ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’.
– In Nevada, it is illegal to use an X-ray device to determine someone’s shoe size.
– In Texas, astronauts who live in that state are permitted to vote from space.
– In Washington, it is illegal in two counties to poach a Sasquatch.

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You have been warned…..

Interracial marriage was still illegal in Alabama until November, 2000.

It was still done, however. No one tried to enforce this law since probably the mid-1970s.

@Yellowdog This is my point. Laws are on the books and not enforced all of the time.

There are laws against “fortune telling” in my city. They were on the books and never enforced until recently.

@Yellowdog and @JLeslie Miscegenation laws were nullified by the Supreme Court o the United States in all fifty states in 1967 in the Loving v. Virginia decision. Alabama could not have enforced it at all.

The Full Faith and Credit clause, Article Four of the Constitution, requires states to give “full faith and credit” to the public acts, records, and court proceedings of the other states. That means marriage licenses issued by a state must be honored in another state.

Same with divorces, which is why people used to go to Nevada to get a quickie divorce.

Marijuana.

I’m from Colorado and this has been the death of me. Ever since pot has been legalized, the traffic has been TERRIBLE!! I know I’m selfish, but I want my state to myself!! Hehe

@zenvelo But, until the Supreme Court nullifies a horrible law, the law is in force.

@JLeslie But when something like same sex marriage is legalized in one state, that marriage must be recognized in another state. That is one of the reasons the SCOTUS overturned attempts to pass legislation to do an end run around Article Four.

On a lighter note, it’s is illegal in Utah to fish from horse back.

As I understand it, it’s also against the law to lasso a horse while wearing fishnet stockings (you…..not the horse….)

@zenvelo So, are you saying when California first legalized gay marriage many years ago, if that couple had moved to Alabama, Alabama was honoring that marriage certificate? I know that’s how it should have worked, but was it working that way?

Edit: regarding cousins marrying this table shows that some states don’t honor the marriage of other states.