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Connecticut Laws

You can be stopped by the police for biking over 65 miles per hour.

In order for a pickle to officially be considered a pickle, it must bounce.

It is illegal to dispose of used razor blades.

It is illegal to dispose of used razor blades.

Citation: Chapter 545

Sec. 30-91. Hours and days of closing. Exemption.

(d) The sale or dispensing of alcoholic liquor in places
operating under package store permits, drug store permits
or grocery store beer permits shall be unlawful on
Decoration Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving
Day, New Year's Day, Sunday or Christmas or, if
Independence Day, Christmas or New Year's Day occurs on a
Sunday, on the Monday next following such day except that
such sale or dispensing shall be lawful on any Independence
Day occurring on a Saturday; and such sale or dispensing of
alcoholic liquor in places operating under package store
permits, drug store permits, and grocery store beer permits
shall be unlawful on any other day before eight o'clock
a.m. and after eight o'clock p.m. It shall be unlawful for
the holder of a manufacturing permit for a brew pub to sell
beer for consumption off the premises on the days or hours
prohibited by this subsection. Any town may, by a vote of a
town meeting or by ordinance, reduce the number of hours
during which such sale shall be permissible.

It is illegal to discharge a firearm from a public highway.

Citation: General Statutes of Connecticut, Revised to 1997
Title-53 - Crimes
Sec. 53-204. Hunting or discharging firearm from public highway.
Any person who hunts or discharges any firearm from any public highway shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars. This section shall not apply to any law or conservation enforcement officer in the performance of his duty. Enforcement officers of the Department of Environmental Protection are empowered to arrest for the violation of the provisions of this section.

Town records may not be kept where liquor is sold.

Citation: Chapter 545

Sec. 30-97. Town and probate records not to be kept where
liquor is sold.
Town or probate records shall not be kept in any room in
which alcoholic liquor is sold, nor in any room from which
there is direct access to a room in which such liquor is
sold. Any town clerk or judge of probate violating the
provisions of this section shall be subject to the
penalties provided in section 30-113.

City Laws

Devon Laws

It is unlawful to walk backwards after sunset.

Guilford Laws

Only white Christmas lights are allowed for display.

Hartford Laws

You aren't allowed to cross a street while walking on your hands.

You may not educate dogs.

It is illegal for a man to kiss his wife on Sunday.

New Britain Laws

It is illegal for fire trucks to exceed 25mph, even when going to a fire.

Rocky Hill Laws

An arcade may not have more than a total of four amusement devices such as ping-pong tables, pinball machines, or shuffleboard tables.

Citation: ? 81-2. Definitions.

As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated:

MECHANICAL AMUSEMENT DEVICE

A. Any mechanical pinball amusement device which is so constructed that the result of its operation depends upon chance, or upon the skill of the operator, or upon both;

B. Any mechanical device which in its operation shoots or propels an electric light, ray or impulse to a target;

C. Any table bowling, shuffleboard or other mechanical table game or amusement device involving the propulsion of spheres or other projectiles, mechanically or by hand; or

D. Any coin-operated or coin-in-the-slot table amusement device or game.

PERSON -- An individual, partnership, corporation, club or association.

? 81-3. License required; number restricted.

A. No person shall have in any place within a permanent structure open to the general public or occupied by any club or association any mechanical amusement device without first having obtained a license therefor.

B. Notwithstanding the provisions of Subsection A, no person shall have in any place within a permanent structure open to the general public more than four mechanical amusement devices.

Southington Laws

Explanation: In the mid 1990s, a group of children ran up to a police officer and sprayed him with silly string during the Apple Harvest Festival. To prevent such acts from happening again, the ban was passed on the sale of the product.

Silly string is banned.

Waterbury Laws

It is illegal for any beautician to hum, whistle, or sing while working on a customer.


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