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    Some laws are just laws.  Don’t kill people.  Don’t steal cars.  Or police cars.  Don’t deface property.  Don’t not pay your taxes.  But, with the Halloween season fast approaching, I thought it would be fun to find some laws that are specifically related to Halloween.

    Some are kind of boring, like in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware it’s against the law to trick or treat after 8:00 PM.  In Dublin, Georgia, it’s against the law to wear dark sunglasses or a hood.  Considering that’s smack in the middle of Klanville, I’d say that’s a good thing, wouldn’t you?  In Walnut, California, you have to obtain a permit to wear a mask on Halloween.  That’s a little weirder.  I wonder if they have to approve the mask…

    this is fine

    this is fine

    get out of my office

    get out of my office

    Another one, that I like slightly more, is that it’s illegal to dress like a priest on Halloween in Alabama.  This allowed me to make my own custom graphic, seen here.

    priest outfit

    I imagine their Community Outreach program will be contacting me for the rights any moment now.

    My favorite Halloween related law so far is this one – In Huntsville Alabama, anybody in an animal control officer uniform IS an actual animal control officer.  Think about it.

    kid animal control

    Do you know any more wacky Halloween laws?  Comment, you ghouls!

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    Wedded bliss.  Some achieve it, some don’t.  We hear a lot about what you should do when you’re planning a wedding – from centerpiece ideas to prenuptial agreements – but we don’t hear much about the weird marriage-related laws that nobody bothered to repeal.  In this case, there is a reason nobody repealed it – people still use it!

    Marriage By Proxy

    Reportedly, in Montana two people can get hitched even if they don’t show up to the ceremony.  A website that facilitates this even today.  Montana, indeed has a law where both parties can wed without appearing, but Texas, Colorado, and California have a law where only one person has to show up.  In California, the only people who can do this are military personnel who are deployed and their intended.

    This law came about in Montana back in the mid-1800′s when there were a bunch of miners moving into the mining towns.  They still wanted to marry their fiances, but it was hard to get around back then, so Montana enacted this law so they could.  I guess, even if a guy wanted to stay in the mines all day while his sweetie was back in Ohio or something he could – the double proxy law meant that neither party had to be present.

    Today this law is mainly used for armed forces members who are deployed.  Why they wouldn’t want to wait to do it in person, I don’t know, but since there is a service out there that facilitates this type of thing, I guess it’s more common than you would think.

    proxy

    Watch out, however, if you are from Iowa.  Iowa does not recognize a proxy marriage.

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