With about 400 new laws passed around the country every year, there are always a few head-scratchers.
Here are seven of the stranger laws that have made it into the books so far this year ...
You can't have over four cats in Wellington, Kan.
This town in Kansas apparently has a problem with stray cats, so they passed an ordinance to crack down.
"We were picking up, compared to years past, a couple hundred cats per year,” Wellington Police Chief Tracy Heath told KAKE. “We're hoping that this new ordinance may lower that number."
The city came up with changes to its animal ordinance, which includes a section saying “no person or household shall own or harbor more than four cats of more than six months of age or more than one litter of kittens."
It's now against the law to have sex with a corpse in Illinois.
Illinois lacked a law explicitly criminalizing sex with a corpse, so previous prosecutions had to rely on a charge of “criminal damage to property.”
“The death of a loved one is bad enough, but it should be much more than criminal damaged property,” Illinois Rep. Daniel Beiser (D), told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. “This is a completely inappropriate charge.”
Source: Politico
Sex offenders can't be the Easter Bunny or Santa Claus in Illinois either.
A law sponsored by State Senator Kirk Dillard (R) made it a felony for sex offenders to dress up as the Easter Bunny, work as a department store Santa Claus, or pass out candy on Halloween.
The final bill also bans them from operating or being employed at a county fair where persons under 18 are present, and restricts them from going to any holiday event where children are in attendance.
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