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State law
* Many state laws prohibit employment discrimination
  - recognize that when someone is drunk, they are unable to give consent
* Most State laws distinguish between sexual abuse and sexual assault.
* Most state laws ban the disclosure of mental patients' records in order to protect their privacy
  - of mental patients' records to protect their privacy
  - protect the confidentiality of communication between patients and physicians
  - provide for capital punishment, usually by hanging
* Most state laws require children to be immunized against certain diseases
  - that both birth parents give consent before their child can be adopted
* Some state laws guarantee the right of all workers to see their work records
  - prohibit the moving of house plants
* affect wills, trusts and charitable gifts made in contractual agreement.
* allows corporal punishment in public school
  - gay couples to serve as foster or adoptive parents
  - people to care for up to two unrelated children without state permission
  - radio waves to register six volts per meter
* applies in a patent context when the licensing of a patent is involved
  - to issues concerning the validity, revocability and enforceability of contracts
* are in a constant state of flux.
* ban cockfighting in every state except Louisiana, Oklahoma and New Mexico.
* classifies amphetamines and methamphetamines as stimulants.
* controls distribution of both real and personal property.
* dealing with domestic relations vary widely and change frequently.
* define a wide variety of items as litter.
* defines a liquidation as the selling off of existing inventory
  - relative as a spouse or the parent of a minor
  - an assault as a physical injury or a serious physical injury
  - sexual contact as intentional touching of sexual or intimate parts
* determine when in an individual's life compulsory schooling begins and ends, for example.
* determines the laws governing the operation of a homeowners' association
  - who the heirs are and how much they receive
* do affect records management.
* establishes the borders of school districts to coincide with town boundaries
  - right of certain citizens to carry concealed weapons
* exist which regulate subdivision and land use.
* fix the ages at which young people are considered minors.
* forbids mistreatment of farm animals
  - smoking in bathrooms, corridors, elevators, and stairways
  - the possession of alcoholic beverages as a minor
* govern hunting
  - marriage
  - the election of municipal officers at general state elections
  - what rights a landowner has regarding archeological remains on private property
  - wills, trusts, and charitable gifts made in a contractual agreement
* governing corporations vary from state to state.
* governs procedures relating to the suspension of pupils
  - the release of agency records, documents, and other information
  - wills, trusts and charitable gift in a contractual agreement
* guarantee investors the right to inspect and copy corporate records.
* help protect shareholders and creditors of dissolving companies.
* includes the constitution, laws, regulations and judicial decisions of any state.
* make carrying guns around a school illegal and punishable.
* makes parents legally responsible for any abuse of public property by their children.
* mandates that all dogs, cats and ferrets be regularly inoculated against rabies.
* outlines the powers and duties of local boards of health.
* permits notaries to administer oaths and affirmations of office.
* prohibit harassing wildlife
  - people from owning wild animals such as raccoons
  - the use of live lures
  - yard waste from being mixed with regular household waste
* prohibits alcoholic beverages
  - convicted felons from possessing guns
  - donors from giving money to political causes in the name of another person
  - gambling and the use or possession of illegal drugs
  - possession or use of fireworks
  - possession, use or sale of alcoholic beverages or illegal drugs
* prohibits smoking in public areas
  - buildings
  - on trains or in stations
* prohibits the importation and possession of snakes and other illegal animals
  - keeping of any of our native wildlife as pets
* prohibits the sale of bodies or body parts
  - tobacco products to minors
  - unlawful possession of controlled dangerous substances and paraphernalia
* protect bobcats in many areas.
* regarding carrying concealed firearms vary widely.
* regulate mortgage brokers
  - what kinds of work youth can do and the hours they can work
* require agencies
  - an unmarried mother to sign a document declaring the paternity of the child
  - motorists to drive with dimmed headlights when the windshield wipers are in use
  - rabies vaccinations for all dogs
  - that vehicle owners have automobile insurance
  - urban water agencies
* requires all dogs and cats four months and older to have current rabies vaccinations
  - three months of age or older to be vaccinated against rabies
  - over the age of four months to be vaccinated against rabies
  - parents to support their children
  - businesses to list all hazardous substances on chemical inventories
  - children riding bicycles in public to wear helmets for protection
  - condoms to be worn in all sexual activities in legal brothels
  - dogs be vaccinated against rabies
* requires every citizen to control the spread of noxious weeds on their land
  - dog or cat to be vaccinated at four months of age and annually thereafter
  - parents to send their children to school unless otherwise provided by law
  - people in the front seat of a car or truck to wear their seat belts
  - pets to be vaccinated against rabies
* requires that a helmet be worn when riding a moped or motorcycle
  - all cats be vaccinated against rabies
* requires that all dogs and cats over four months of age receive rabies shots
  - be inoculated against rabies
  - over four months of age be licensed and vaccinated against rabies
  - animals be spayed or neutered before they re adopted
  - bodies be positively identified through a scientific process
  - the use of bicycle helmets
  - vaccinations of dogs and cats for rabies
* says abuse is hurting or harming a person who is receiving services.
* sets forth the form of the oath of office for most public officials.
* vary about grandparents' custody and visitation rights
  - considerably in how they set prices, which trade practices they regulate, and so on
  - on the subject of sperm donors' rights and responsibilities
  - significantly regarding the employment of midwives
  - widely with respect to interstate shipment of alcohol beverages
  - widely, and few federal statutes address workplace privacy