[AT] Amish restraint laws?

[crawler]

Steve We had the almost same thing happen in Newark New York, They stop the
Amish for no insurance. I don't know what ever got settled ,I know the Amish
went to town meetings  but i kinda lost track of what happened.I guess i
will look into this as i am about to build a pole barn and what the amish to
build it,I will let you know what i find out.   ED


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From: "Steve W." <falcon at telenet.net>
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Subject: [AT] Amish restraint laws?


> 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
>
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