Dumb Delaware Laws
Note: All cited laws are real and currently in effect, and have been verified for authenticity by practicing attorney Nathan Belofsky, Esq., the world's leading authority on strange laws.
- In the State of Delaware, it’s a crime to sell the hair of a dog.
- In Delaware, tongue-splitting can only be done by licensed medical professionals.
- In Delaware, owning deadly poisonous snakes is illegal.
- In Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, it is a crime to feed the ducks.
- In Delaware, it’s illegal to import garbage to feed to pigs.
- In Delaware, it’s against the law to cheat (at certain specified games).
- In Delaware, refusing to aid a responding police officer is a crime.
- In Delaware, it’s illegal to maintain an obstruction.
- In Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, it’s a crime to be rude in church.
- In Delaware, one who “carries away” a cow, bull or swine is guilty of larceny.
- In Delaware, interrupting computer service is a crime.
- In Delaware, it’s illegal to advertise by billboard a person’s having been married in another state.
- In Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, a person may not change clothes in a public restroom.
- In Delaware, bear-baiting is illegal.
- In Delaware, it’s a crime to dump upon public land noisome blood or offal caused by the dressing of poultry.
- In Delaware, no trash container holding more than two cubic yards can be carried upon a highway.
- In Delaware, all large public buildings of more than one story must have outward-opening doors.
- In Delaware, when Texas Hold’Em Poker pots are split between two players, the extra odd chip must always go to the player on the left.
- In Delaware, it’s a crime to without authorization import an auto master key.
- In Delaware, it’s illegal for a driver to cut into a funeral procession.
- In Delaware, it’s a crime for drive-in movie theaters to let minors watch “R” movies from the outside.
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