Stupid Laws in Kentucky
A person can be sent to jail for five years for merely sending a bottle of beer, wine or spirits as a gift to a friend in Kentucky.
Location: Kentucky, United States | 6 comments
A woman may not buy a hat without her husband’s permission.
Location: Owensboro, Kentucky | 2 comments
All bees entering Kentucky shall be accompanied by certificates of health, stating that the apiary from which the bees came was free from contagious or infectious disease.
Location: Kentucky, United States | no comments
All bees entering Kentucky shall be accompanied by certificates of health, stating that the apiary from which the bees came was free from contagious or infectious disease. -KRS 252.130 (Passed in 1922; Repealed in 1948)
Location: Kentucky, United States | 2 comments
All nude people in your house must be registered.
Location: Kentucky, United States | one comment
Any person who appears on any highway, or upon the street of any city that has no police protection, when clothed only in ordinary bathing garb, shall be fined no less than five dollars nor more than twenty-five dollars.” – KRS 436.140 (Passed in 1922; Repealed in 1974)
Location: Kentucky, United States | no comments
Any person who displays, handles or uses any kind of reptile in connection withany religious service or gathering shall be fined not less than fifty dollars ($50) nor more than one hundred dollars ($100). -KRS 437.060 (Passed 1942, from Ky. Stat. sec. 1267a-1.).
Location: Kentucky, United States | one comment
Anyone who has been drinking is “sober” until he or she “cannot hold onto the ground”.
Location: Kentucky, United States | one comment
By law, anyone who has been drinking is “sober” until he or she “cannot hold onto the ground.”
Location: Lexington, Kentucky | no comments
By law, anyone who has been drinking is “sober” until he or she “cannot hold onto the ground.
Location: Kentucky, United States | no comments
Cats may not molest cars.
Location: Fort Thomas, Kentucky | one comment
Dogs may not molest cars.
Location: Fort Thomas, Kentucky | 3 comments
Each year, the mayor must appoint “three intelligent housekeepers” to the Board of Tax Supervisors.
Location: Danville, Kentucky | no comments
Every citizen of is required to take a shower once a year.
Location: Kentucky, United States | one comment
Horses are not allowed out on the streets and highways at night unless the animal has a “bright” red taillight securely attached to its rump.
Location: Berea, Kentucky | one comment
If someone steals your horse, there is a law that allows you to publicly hang the person and no law enforcement officer is allowed to stop you.
Location: Kentucky, United States | 5 comments
It against the law to shoot off a policeman’s tie.
Location: Frankfort, Kentucky | one comment
It is illegal to fish with a bow and arrow in Kentucky.
Location: Kentucky, United States | no comments
It is illegal to shoot game out of the window of a moving vehicle, with the exception of a whale.
Location: Kentucky, United States | 5 comments
It is illegal to transport an ice cream cone in your pocket.
Location: Lexington, Kentucky | 7 comments
It’s illegal to fish in the Ohio River in Kentucky without an Indiana Fishing License.
Location: Kentucky, United States | no comments
It’s illegal to throw slops or soapsuds in the street.
Location: Danville, Kentucky | one comment
Minors can’t play billiards without parental signature.
Location: Kentucky, United States | no comments
No female shall appear in a bathing suit on any highway within this state unless she is escorted by at least two officers or unless she be armed with a club.” Later, an amendment proposed: The provisions of this statute shall not apply to any female weighing less than sixty pounds nor exceeding 200 pounds; nor shall it apply to female horses.
Location: Kentucky, United States | 3 comments
One may not dye a duckling blue and offer it for sale unless more than six are for sale at once.
Location: Kentucky, United States | 3 comments

