Stupid Laws & Dumb Laws » New Mexico

Don’t carry a lunchbox down Main Street

webmaster — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 22:31:23 +0000

Carrying a lunch box down Main Street could make you look like you’re concealing something and could be part of Bush’s ‘Axis of Evil’

Driving your ATV in Mountain View cemetery is prohibited

webmaster — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 22:28:31 +0000

Riding, driving, hunting is strictly prohibited on cemetery property.

8-4-3: VISITOR INFORMATION:

D. Driving; Hunting: Persons within the cemetery grounds shall use only the avenues, walkways and roads when practical. No one must ride or drive upon the lawns. Riding a bicycle or hunting is expressly prohibited within the confines of the cemetery premises.

(Ord. 947, 4-14-1997)

Spitting by a church or opera house illegal

webmaster — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 22:20:29 +0000

Help keep America beautiful by not spitting in front of any public buildings.

6-1D-2: EXPECTORATING ON SIDEWALKS OR IN PUBLIC BUILDINGS:

It is unlawful for any person to spit or expectorate upon any of the public sidewalks, crosswalks, passes, byways or paths in the city, or upon the floor or steps of the public building, store, hotel, church, opera house, office room, schoolhouse or any other building in the city in which persons are in the habit of frequenting, assembling or congregating.

(Ord. 748, 8-12-1985)

Women are prohibited from being unshaven in public

webmaster — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 22:16:24 +0000

Ladies, remember to shave your legs before you go shopping.

The Idiot Law

webmaster — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 22:14:10 +0000

Idiots, insane people and felons are not allowed to vote in New Mexico

CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO
ADOPTED JANUARY 21, 1911

Article VII. Elective Franchise
Section 1. [Qualifications of voters; absentee voting; school elections; registration.]Every citizen of the United States, who is over the age of twenty-one years, and has resided in New Mexico twelve months, in the county ninety days, and in the precinct in which he offers to vote thirty days, next preceding the election, except idiots, insane persons and persons convicted of a felonious or infamous crime unless restored to political rights, shall be qualified to vote at all elections for public officers. The legislature may enact laws providing for absentee voting by qualified electors. All school elections shall be held at different times from other elections.