[AT] Amish restraint laws?

[Steve W.]

Question for any/all folks in areas with large Amish communities.
Does anyone else have laws forbidding them to do construction or
remodeling work in their areas/towns.
One of the local townships (Canajoharie NY) seems to have a BIG problem
with them. They passed new code laws that Specify that NO Amish
building/construction or labor may be used in the township because they
use "Inferior building materials and methods of construction" and
because they "do not carry insurance for liability" The amazing thing is
that insurance is NOT required for anyone else either. There are a LOT
of outfits that do work in the town that don't carry insurance. The
other item is a real joke. The barns and houses they built before this
new code were all post and beam construction with fitted tenon and pin
joints just like the 150+ year old barn I have here. And made out of
full rough cut lumber just like it has as well. I'm thinking that the
REAL reason behind it is simply MONEY. The Amish built and entire 9 room
log home with an attached garage for a person in the town and did it for
WELL under 30,000 dollars. And they had it built from the ground up in
less than 2 months. Kind of showed up the local big shot construction
outfits so I think they started spreading a bunch of lies.

Anyone else have this kind of situation?

Steve Williams
Near Cooperstown, New York