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Ground Rules

Many cities have oddball rules on the books – e.g., in Baltimore, it's illegal to take a lion to the movies, and women in Owensboro, KY, need their husbands' permission to buy a hat. In fact, several convention centers have statutes that are every bit as quirky. See if you can tell which ones are fact and which ones are fiction in this issue's quiz.

click True or False to make your choice

1. New Mexico's Santa Fe Convention Center allows tequila donkeys – burros outfitted with saddles holding ice, limes, salt, and tequila – only outside its facility, even if they are accompanied by a trainer and a bartender.

□ True

□ False

2. The Minneapolis Convention Center may be cold in the winter months, but exhibitors are expressly prohibited from building snowmen on the venue's grounds.

□ True

□ False

3. Before exhibitors can land a helicopter at Louisville's Exposition Center in Kentucky, they must provide proof of $10 million worth of insurance coverage.

□ True

□ False

4. Exhibitors at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center in San Antonio can give away firearms.

□ True

□ False

5. Things might get sticky for any exhibitors who pass around adhesive-backed decals inside California's San Jose Convention Center, where such items are prohibited.

□ True

□ False

6. Atlanta's Georgia World Congress Center allows exhibitors to fly hot-air balloons inside its facilities.

□ True

□ False

7. At the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans, you can't stand on chairs to increase your chances of catching beads others might be throwing at shows during Mardi Gras.

□ True

□ False

8. The Miami Beach Convention Center explicitly forbids miniature horses except in a service-animal capacity.

□ True

□ False

Ohio's Greater Columbus Convention Center permits exhibitors to demonstrate exuberance throughout move-in and move-out periods but specifically forbids horseplay during those times.

□ True

□ False