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New and Wacky Laws for California in 2007

Did you know there are 910 new California laws that came into affect as of Jan 1, 2007?

Here’s a List of some notable new California laws

• Minimum wage jumps 75 cents an hour to $7.50. Not too shabby.
• DUI convictions on an offender’s driving record for 10 years instead of 7. Don’t drink and drive.
• Anyone under 21 found driving with just 0.01% blood alcohol content will face criminal fines. The limit’s been 0.05%, subject to just civil action. Yikes!
• Riding in the trunk of a car will result in a $100 base fine. At first I thought this law was targetted at illegal aliens but some teenagers who can’t carry passengers until they’ve been licensed longer, conceal people in their trunk.
• For those Fast and Furious fans, street racing causing serious injury will be a felony. First-time offenders will face fines or jail time up to six months.
• For you animal owners, it will be a misdemeanor to leave an animal alone in a car if it puts the pet’s health in harm’s way. I didn’t know this was not a law already.
• Another law passed this year makes it illegal to talk on a cell phone while driving unless you have a hands-free device, but that law doesn’t take effect until July of 2008.

Now Here’s the New Wacky Laws in Affect this year in CA

• You can no longer teather a dog for more than 3 hours or you can be given a citation or worse. So no leashing up your dog to a tree to go see the Star Wars trology (yeah I know, bad example).
• This one I love, FREE BEER SAMPLES can now be given to people at retail stores licensed to sell the beverage. I can’t wait when Costco provides this, although I think I will end up buying more stuff I don’t need. Rules are, must be served in a glass, no bottles or cans. 8oz per person per day. Did someone say, grocery store hopping?
• Here’s another one that cracked me up. For those who take free newspapers typically situated at bus/train stations, grocery stores, you can only take up to 25 free copies. Take one more and you are busted. Now I can’t figure out why you would need more than 25 free junk papers, maybe to set someone on fire or wipe up a really bad poo. (How many blog posts have you read that ends with the word “poo”)