11.   Because federal law pre-empts state statutes, legislative attorneys warned that the bill was unconstitutional.

12.   Because of an inadvertent change in a state statute last year, campfires have been illegal since October.

13.   A New Jersey appeals court has upheld two state statutes requiring defendants in sexual-assault cases to be tested for the AIDS virus if the victim so chooses.

14.   A recent New York state statute classifies even consensual sex between inmates and guards as rape.

15.   A state criminal statute forbids maliciously clouding title to property, but the Post Intelligencer could find no evidence the law is enforced.

16.   A state statute prohibits lawmakers from lobbying their colleagues at the Capitol for a year.

17.   A state statute requires that New Hampshirites must vote first, by at least a week.

18.   But another problem is that the courts typically have been more liberal in interpreting some of the rules beyond the strict letter of state statute.

19.   But several other justices contended that the court had merely used the state Constitution to help interpret conflicting state statutes.

20.   But the law failed to spell out each and every chapter of the state statutes where revenue bonds are mentioned.