ELIZABETHTOWN, Ky. -- If you move to Kentucky you better be prepared to bathe -- at least once a year.

The law requiring annual baths is one of the rather strange ordinances that have been on books in Kentucky.  

Another statue requires that a woman in a bathing suit on a highway be escorted by at least two officers or be armed with a club. The law was latter amended to exempt females weighing less than 90 pounds or more than 200.

The News-Enterprise of Elizabethtown reported that a local ordinance required the sheriff to collect a dog tax or shoot the canine.


But residents don't have to worry about Rover. Police Chief Ruben Gardner said there are a lot of "crazy laws" on the books that aren't enforced.