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State Law

• It is illegal to have a sheep in the cab of your truck without a chaperone.
• It is a felony for a wife to open her husband's mail.
• It is a misdemeanor to show movies that depict acts of felonious crime.
• In Montana, it is illegal for married women to go fishing alone on Sundays, and illegal for unmarried women to fish alone at all.
• It is illegal for a man and a woman to have sex in any other position other than missionary style.
• Seven or more indians are considered a raiding or war party and it is legal to shoot them.

Local Law

Billings

• Persons in possession of a "pea shooter" risk it being conviscated by police.
• It is illegal to bring a bomb or rocket at city council proceedings.
• Bands who play in clubs where alcohol is served may not leave the stage while performing.
• It is illegal to use speed-dial in the city phone system.
• No person shall raise pet rats.

Excelsior Springs

• Balls may not be thrown within the city limits.

Helena

• No item may be thrown across a street.
• It is illegal to annoy passersby on sidewalks with a revolving water sprinkler.
• The game of "folf" may not be played at night.

Kalispell

• All pool tables must be able to be viewed from the street outside a billiard hall where they are located.

Salisbury

• Pop bottles are not to be thrown on the ground.

Whitehall

• It is illegal to operate a vehicle with ice picks attached to the wheels.