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Old 01-22-2016, 10:41 AM
 
Location: Michigan
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Just days ahead of an expected blizzard on the East Coast, New Jersey has officially repealed a nonsensical rule banning the shoveling of snow without a license.

Gov. Chris Christie on Tuesday signed a bill making it legal for New Jersey residents to offer snow shoveling services without first registering with their town. Last year, two entrepreneurial teens going door-to-door and offering to shovel snow for a small fee were stopped by local police in Bound Brook.

In advance of big storm, New Jersey lifts licensing laws for shoveling snow | Fox News
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Old 01-22-2016, 12:17 PM
 
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Whew. What a relief. We've enacted a law to protect us from... the other law.

Why Bound Brook had that law in the first place is what should be reviewed.
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Old 01-22-2016, 02:13 PM
 
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Yup, that was a pretty dumb law. Up there with making kids get permits for their lemonade stands (same basis as this law was though). Towns just like to make money, so you can buy a permit or pay them $20 to become an official "snow shoveler" or whatever.
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Old 01-22-2016, 02:59 PM
 
Location: High Bridge, NJ
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I thought the soldiers were fighting ISIS to protect our freedoms. It seems to me they should be fighting politicians.
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Old 01-25-2016, 09:04 AM
 
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That is what you get when you have one politician for 10k people as in NJ. They have to do something so they pass laws...


Another great law is that it is illegal to grow Black Currants in NJ:
Growing currants, gooseberries won't land you in the slammer - Press of Atlantic City: Living
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Old 01-25-2016, 12:11 PM
 
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Seems to me this ridiculous law was put in place to protect landscaper/snow removal guys' gravy train in the winter months from the evil doer teenagers with shovels trying to make some extra cash. A really pathetic example of regulation run amok.
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