
24. South Dakota: Napping In Cheese Factories
Agricultural hygiene and commercial food processing are strictly regulated industries, leading to some very specific restrictions regarding where individuals can rest. The state explicitly proclaims that it is completely illegal for any person to lie down and fall asleep inside a commercial cheese factory. This law was forcefully implemented by health inspectors to ensure maximum sanitation in dairy production environments. The goal was to prevent exhausted manual laborers from taking unprotected naps near massive vats of culturing dairy, maintaining the absolute highest biological health standards for local food distribution and preventing massive bacterial contamination.