It is illegal to open an umbrella on a street, for fear of it spooking horses. (Repealed)
I wonder what the punishment might have been for this one? Would it depend on whether you actually succeeded in spooking a horse?
I wonder what the punishment might have been for this one? Would it depend on whether you actually succeeded in spooking a horse?
This is part of the Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984, sections 33 and 34: Public Conveyances. An interesting discussion regarding this law (and a few others) can be found here.
433.301 Starlings and crows; bounty for killing; resolution of board of supervisors. Sec. 1. Every person being an inhabitant of this state, who shall kill a starling or a crow in any organized township, village or city in this state shall be entitled to receive a bounty of 3 cents for each starling thus killed,…