Columbus
It’s illegal to cuss on land line phones
But, I guess you can cuss all you want on a cell phone.
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Dubuque
Hotels are required to have water buckets and hitching post
Next time you pull up on your horse at the local hotel. Make sure they’re equipped with a hitching post and water bucket.
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Columbus
Slingshots are illegal in Columbus
What’s up with all the laws aginst slingshots?
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Cedar Rapids
Predicting the future prohibited within city limits
Fortune tellers are not allowed to practice within city limits. They should already know this, right? 62.25 FORTUNE TELLING. No person shall tell fortunes or practice phrenology, palmistry
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Columbus
Model planes can only be flown at your house or next to the morgue
Hum…Â I guess you can’t disturb the dead with the noise?
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Bettendorf
This Bud is not for you
Stores selling beer are prohibited from placing a sign outside their stores advertising they are selling beer. This must be a very religious town. Sec. 5 1/2-20. Beer
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Columbus
It’s illegal to carve your name into your own tree on your own property
Wow, they really need to learn what private property means in this city
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Iowa
Hop picking boxes must be 36″ in length
If you’re a hop grower, you’re required by law to use a box thats exactly 36″ in length to store the picked hops. Chapter 195. Protection of Hop-Growing
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Iowa
Doctors must report herpes to local health board
Doctors treating anyone with herpes or any other venereal disease is required by law to report to the local health board about the origins of the patients’ disease.
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Iowa
Rabbis, Priests and Ministers required to have permit to carry their booze
All men of God are required to carry a permit if they plan on crossing state lines with liquor. Chapter 221 Wines for Sacraments, etc. Section 1. Wines
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Indiana
Impotence treatment from a hypnotist requires a physician referral
If you want to visit a hypnotist in the state of Indiana for the purposes of quitting smoking, impotence, losing weight you must first get a licensed physician’s referral.
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Iowa
Board established to regulate hearing aids
WHAT?! Here’s a town with not much going on if they need to establish a board for hearing aids regulations. 154A.2 Establishment of board. A board for the
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