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State Law

• Persons in possession of illegal substances must pay taxes on them. However, paying taxes on these items does not make them legal.
• A three dollar tax must be paid on all white goods sold.
• Organizations may not hold their meetings while the members present are in costume.
• Bingo games may not last over 5 hours unless it is held at a fair.
• Serving alcohol at a bingo game is not allowed.
• No one may be a professional fortune-teller, and if one wishes to pursue the practice as an amateur, it must be practiced in a school or church.
• It's against the law to sing off key.
• Elephants may not be used to plow cotton fields.
• While having sex, you must stay in the missionary position and have the shades pulled.
• If a man and a woman who aren't married go to a hotel/motel and register themselves as married then, according to state law, they are legally married.
• All couples staying overnight in a hotel must have a room with double beds that are at least two feet apart. Making love in the space between the beds is strictly forbidden.
• It is illegal to have sex in a churchyard.
• Oral sex is considered a crime against nature.
• A marriage can be declared void if either of the two persons is physically impotent.
• The mere possession of a lottery ticket is illegal in North Carolina and may result in a $2,000 fine.

Local Law

Barber

• Fights between cats and dogs are prohibited.

Chapel Hill

• It is a misdemeanor to urinate or defecate publicly.

Charlotte

• Women must have their bodies covered by at least 16 yards of cloth at all times.

Dunn

• It is illegal to drive cars through city cemeteries for pleasure.
• No one may visit their departed loved ones late at night.
• Cars may not be driven on sidewalks.
• It is illegal to throw rocks at a city street.
• No person shall spit on a city street.

Elon College

• There is to be no rollerblading during daylight hours, on the roads, or on the bricks. All the sidewalks at this college are made of brick.

Forest City

• You must stop and call City Hall before entering town in an automobile. This is so the townspeople will have time to go out and hold their horses until you get through town.

Greensboro

• Restaurants "with on sidewalk dining" must post their menu so that it is clearly readable from the sidewalk, but is not readable from the street.

Kill Devil Hills

• You may not ride a bicycle without having both your hands on the handle bars.

Rocky Mount

• It is required that you must pay a property tax on your dog.

Southern Shores

• It is against the law to rollerblade on a state highway.

Zebulon

• It is illegal to stand outside the police station for any purpose after dark.
• No person may walk on top of the water tank of the city.