List of strange laws

This is a list of unusual laws — decrees, ordinances, statutes and regulations which have been considered bizarre, curious, odd or otherwise unusual.

After aerosol string cost $200,000/year to clean up, Los Angeles passed an ordinance banning Silly String in Hollywood during Halloween.[1][2]

List
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Law Jurisdiction In effect Notes
Silly String ban on Halloween[1][2] Los Angeles 2004 The ban was put in place due to cleanup costs exceeding US$200,000.
Chewing gum ban[3][4]Singapore1992Prohibition on sale only, exception is made for chewing gum for medical use.
Statute forbidding Bearing of Armour[5]
(Coming Armed to Parliament Act 1313)		England1313"In all Parliaments, Treatises and other Assemblies, which should be made in the Realm of England for ever, that every Man shall come without all Force and Armour"
Prohibition of dyingVarious–
Wearing of camouflageJamaica[6]
Saudi Arabia[7]
Barbados[8]

Proposed

References
  1. "Silly String Banned In Hollywood This Halloween" (Press release). Los Angeles Police Department. October 28, 2004. Retrieved November 21, 2015.
  2. City of Los Angeles Ordinance No. 176176, passed August 18, 2004. Retrieved November 21, 2015.
  3. "The world's strangest laws". Daily Telegraph.
  4. Brits caught out by unusual laws and customs, Foreign & Commonwealth Office, 28 August 2013
  5. Legal Curiosities: Fact or Fable? (PDF), Law Commission, 2013
  6. "Police warn against wearing of camouflage clothing - News". Jamaica Observer. Retrieved 2016-01-06.
  7. "Unusual laws British travellers fall foul of". Telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 2016-01-06.
  8. "Barbados travel advice - GOV.UK". www.gov.uk. Retrieved 2016-01-06.
  9. Lily Hay Newman (20 Oct 2013), Bizarre Regional Laws In the U.S. Are Even Weirder Than You Thought
  10. Alasdair Wilkins (31 Jan 2012), The Eccentric Crank Who Tried To Legislate The Value Of Pi

Further reading
  • Nathan Belofsky (2010), The Book of Strange and Curious Legal Oddities, ISBN 9781101188965
  • Susan Dach (1993), Donkeys Can't Sleep in Bathtubs and other crazy laws, ISBN 9780893752644
  • Nigel Cawthorne (2013), The Strange Laws of Old England, ISBN 9780749954154
  • K. R. Hobbie; Ted LeValliant; Marcel Theroux (2004), Wacky Laws, Weird Decisions, & Strange Statutes, ISBN 9781402716706
  • Jeff Koon; Andy Powell (2002), You May Not Tie an Alligator to a Fire Hydrant, ISBN 9780743230650
  • Seuling, Barbara (1975), You can't eat peanuts in church and other little-known laws. (1st ed.), Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, ISBN 9780385013932
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