Dumb Laws in Michigan (Holland, Wayne: income, work, house)

[jrmontag]

Persons may not be drunk on trains.

It is illegal to kill a dog using a decompression chamber.

Adultery is illegal, but can only be punished upon a complaint by the affected husband or wife.

No man may seduce and corrupt an unmarried girl, or else he risks five years in prison.

The last Sunday in June of every year was named �log cabin day�.

Cars may not be sold on Sunday.

A woman isn't allowed to cut her own hair without her husband's permission.

There is a 3 cent bounty for each starling and 10 cent bounty for each crow killed in any village, township, or city in the state.

It is legal for a robber to file a law suit, if he or she got hurt in your house.

You may not swear in front of women and children.

Any person over the age of 12 may have a license for a handgun as long as he/she has not been convicted of a felony.

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Oh man I've broken like 3 of these, lock me up.

[Siberia]

Don't forget the laws in certain West Michigan areas that won't allow alcohol purchases at the stores on Sunday, but you can buy over-priced $8 drinks at the local restaurants....as long as it is the hard "spirits" only, and not the lighter stuff like beer...

[magellan]

Originally Posted by Siberia

Don't forget the laws in certain West Michigan areas that won't allow alcohol purchases at the stores on Sunday, but you can buy over-priced $8 drinks at the local restaurants....as long as it is the hard "spirits" only, and not the lighter stuff like beer...

Grandville and Zeeland have recently lifted the ban of alcohol sales on Sunday at retailers and restaurants. Hudsonville I think is the only holdout, but it's only in the city of Hudsonville and not the surrounding townships. The last vote they had on it was very slim, so I don't see it holding much longer.

[Siberia]

Originally Posted by magellan

Grandville and Zeeland have recently lifted the ban of alcohol sales on Sunday at retailers and restaurants. Hudsonville I think is the only holdout, but it's only in the city of Hudsonville and not the surrounding townships. The last vote they had on it was very slim, so I don't see it holding much longer.

The entire Ottawa County (250,000 citizens) bans Sunday beer and wine (but you can have hard booze...mixed drinks...). Each city has various forms of laws, some being challenged as we speak (bars can sell, but stores can't, etc). But as far as I understand, the entire Ottawa County, in West Michigan, is still in prohibition mode on Sunday. I have not kept up on the updates though as I have not lived there for a while...

Per a newletter I found via google:

http://www.newhollandbrew.com/email/...pring_2007.pdf

"as far back as anyone can remember there has been a Sunday prohibition of beer and wine in Ottawa County and a prohibition of all forms of alcohol in the city of Holland."

[magellan]

Originally Posted by Siberia

The entire Ottawa County (250,000 citizens) bans Sunday beer and wine (but you can have hard booze...mixed drinks...). Each city has various forms of laws, some being challenged as we speak (bars can sell, but stores can't, etc). But as far as I understand, the entire Ottawa County, in West Michigan, is still in prohibition mode on Sunday. I have not kept up on the updates though as I have not lived there for a while...

Per a newletter I found via google:

http://www.newhollandbrew.com/email/...pring_2007.pdf

"as far back as anyone can remember there has been a Sunday prohibition of beer and wine in Ottawa County and a prohibition of all forms of alcohol in the city of Holland."

Hmm, didn't know that about Ottawa County. We even lived in Ottawa County for three years, but it was right on the border of Kent and we only drove into Grandville for dinner and groceries anyway. It definitely is stupid that they would allow liquor to be sold but not beer and wine.

[amyevansmom]

And believe it or not, it was not but maybe 6 - 8 years ago that a man got ticketed for swearing on the Rifle River! He was raising a ruckus and a cop heard and ticketed him for swearing around women and children!! TRUE!! It made the evening news for quite some time!

[Driller1]

Originally Posted by amyevansmom

And believe it or not, it was not but maybe 6 - 8 years ago that a man got ticketed for swearing on the Rifle River! He was raising a ruckus and a cop heard and ticketed him for swearing around women and children!! TRUE!! It made the evening news for quite some time!

That was on Court TV, I was in the right place, at the right time to meet Nancy Grace. The man was found guilty, but it was overturned in the state appeals court.

[deslok]

How about the Driver Responsibilty Act for dumb laws ( and some might say unconsititutional)

[Driller1]

Originally Posted by deslok

How about the Driver Responsibilty Act for dumb laws ( and some might say unconsititutional)

The sooner people learn not to drive drunk the better. Anything to make it hard on them is a good thing to me. What gives anyone the right to come at me with a weapon? I can tell if someone is in the room flashing a gun, but have no idea who is in the vehicles around me.

[deslok]

Oh sure, sounds good. Too bad the fee is not working, half of the outstanding fees have not been collected, and instead we have thousands of illegal drivers. It also clogs the courts with drivers trying hard to fight tickets for infractions they might already pay, which in turn will paid for by you in some way.
Even the guy who sponsored the bill, Wayne Kuipers of gee, Holland Michigan said he no longer supports it, and wants it repealed.
It is not the illegal drivers out there that bugs me, it is the $100 million dollar worth of middle to upper class people every year that make a mistake, and also feel compelled to obey the law and actually pay the fee. It is not the low life, lower income drunk driver folk that pay, it is the middle and upper class. The lower income people do not care if they are driving illegally in the first place, go ahead an add an extra 2 grand to someone that already owes much more then that. Get my point?