Hitch-hiking Laws in the U.S.A., 1973

At the request of the author, Paul DiMaggio, these laws have not been put on-line. Paul has expressed the genuine concern that, dated and unrepresentative of present day laws as they are, some naive reader will download them, print them, abide by them, and end up in legal trouble. It seems to have become much easier to attract legal problems by hitch-hiking in certain parts of the United States. While I don't quite share the depth of those concerns, I do have great respect for the expressed desires of authors whose work I have collected. As a consequence I present here only the skeleton of the full page which I can provide to any researcher on request. 

If someone were to take up my offer to compile an exhaustive list of current laws, then I would be happy to publish them here, and Paul would probably have no objection to publishing these dated laws beside them for purposes of comparison. The evolution of laws regarding hitch-hiking strongly interests me. 

What follows is the skeleton of the Laws page I had planned to place here: 

In 1973 Paul DiMaggio published the most comprehensive list of laws relating to hitch-hiking that I've come across. It sheds some light on what was in fact illegal and what was not, and how legislation was drafted. Paul DiMaggio's list of laws is reproduced here, though the reader should take careful note that these are not current laws, but laws of 1973. I would welcome any effort to compile a comparable list of current laws, which would shed some interesting light upon the evolution of hitch-hiking legislature over a period of several decades. 


Extracted from The Hitchhiker's Field Manual, Paul DiMaggio, 1973 
HITCHHIKING LAWS OF THE 50 STATES AND THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

Alabama

Alaska

Arizona

Arkansas

California

Colorado

Connecticut

Delaware

District of Columbia

Florida

Georgia

Hawaii

Idaho

Illinois

Indiana

Iowa

Kansas

Kentucky

Louisiana

Maine

Maryland

Massachusetts

Michigan

Minnesota

Mississippi

Missouri

Montana

Nebraska

Nevada

New Hampshire

New Jersey

New Mexico

New York

North Carolina

North Dakota

Ohio

Oklahoma

Oregon

Pennsylvania

Rhode Island

South Carolina

South Dakota

Tennessee

Texas

Utah

Vermont

Virginia

Washington

West Virginia

Wisconsin

Wyoming