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Colorado Blue Laws
The blue laws are a
vestige of the legal imposition of religion. Puritan
colonists first imposed blue laws in the 17th Century,
and blue laws in Texas banned Sunday sales of pots,
pans and washing machines. Houghton Mifflin describes
"Sunday restriction on such activities as retail
sales, general labor, liquor sales, boxing, hunting,
or barbering, as well as polo, cockfighting, or clam
digging." Some suggests the blue laws were inspired by
Constantine's directive of 321 A.D. restricting work
on Sunday.
Today in Colorado you
can buy a Car on Sunday
Statute 12-6-302
begins: "No person, firm, or corporation, whether
owner, proprietor, agent, or employee, shall keep
open, operate, or assist in keeping open or operating
any place or premises or residences, whether open or
closed, for the purpose of selling, bartering, or
exchanging or offering for sale, barter, or exchange
any motor vehicle, whether new, used, or secondhand,
on the first day of the week commonly called Sunday." |
