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« on: October 30, 2008, 05:12:37 am » |
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• A city ordinance states that a $500 fine will be given to anyone who detonates a nuclear device within city limits. • Alhambra: You cannot leave your car on the street overnight without the proper permit. • Animals are banned from mating publicly within 1,500 feet of a tavern, school, or place of worship. • Arcadia: Peacocks have the right of way to cross any street, including driveways. • Baldwin Park: Nobody is allowed to ride a bicycle in a swimming pool. • Bathhouses are against the law. • Belvedere City Council order reads: "No dog shall be in a public place without its master on a leash." • Blythe: You are not permitted to wear cowboy boots unless you already own at least two cows. • Burlingame: It is illegal to spit, except on baseball diamonds; Carmel Ice cream may not be eaten while standing on the sidewalk. (Repealed when Clint Eastwood was mayor); Women may not wear high heels while in the city limits. • Chico: Detonating a nuclear device within the city limits results in a $500 fine. • Community leaders passed an ordinance that makes it illegal for anyone to try and stop a child from playfully jumping over puddles of water. • Downey: It is illegal to wash your car in the street. (Passed 1995). • Giving or receiving oral sex is prohibited. • Hollywood: It is illegal to drive more than two thousand sheep down Hollywood Boulevard at one time. • In 1930, the City Council of Ontario passed an ordinance forbidding roosters to crow within the city limits. • In an animal shelter, lizards and snakes are treated under the same guidelines as cats and dogs. • In Baldwin Park, California nobody is allowed to ride a bicycle in a swimming pool. • In California it is illegal to have caller ID • In California you may not set a mouse trap without a hunting license. • In California, animals are banned from mating publicly within 1,500 feet of a tavern, school, or place of worship. • In Los Angeles a man is legally entitled to beat his wife with a leather belt or strap, but the belt can't be wider than 2 inches, unless he has his wife's consent to beat her with a wider strap. Consent should be given prior to the event, as is carefully stipulated. • In Los Angeles, you cannot bathe two babies in the same tub at the same time. • In Ventura County, California, cats and dogs are not allowed to have sex without a permit. • It is a misdemeanor to shoot at any kind of game from a moving vehicle, unless the target is a whale. • It is illegal for a man to beat his wife with a strap wider than 2 inches without her consent. • It is illegal for a secretary to be alone in a room with her boss. • It is illegal to cry on the witness stand. • It is illegal to drive more than two thousand sheep down Hollywood Boulevard at one time. • It is illegal to eat an orange in your bath tub • It is illegal to pile horse manure more than six feet high on a street corner. • It is illegal to set a mouse trap without a hunting license. • Lafayette: You are forbidden to spit on the ground within 5 feet of another person. • Lodi: It is illegal to own or sell "Silly String". • Lompoc: It is illegal to posses, own or raise roosters. This is considered disturbing the peace. • Long Beach: Cars are the only item allowed in a garage; It is illegal to curse on a mini-golf course. • Los Angeles law forbids hunting moths under a street light. • Los Angeles: It is illegal for a man to beat his wife with a strap wider than 2 inches without her consent; You cannot bathe two babies in the same tub at the same time; You may not hunt moths under a street light; It is illegal to cry on the witness stand; Toads may not be licked; It is a crime for dogs to mate within 500 yards of a church (Breaking this law is punishable by a fine of $500 and/or six months in prison); Zoot suits are prohibited. • Many animals are illegal to own as pets, including snails, sloths, and elephants. • Molesting butterflies can result in a $500 fine. • No vehicle without a driver may exceed 60 miles per hour. • Nobody is allowed to ride a bicycle in a swimming pool. • One may not carry a lunch down the street between 11 and 1 o'clock. • Ontario: Roosters may not crow in the city limits. • Pacific Grove: Molesting butterflies can result in a $500 fine. • Palm Springs: It is illegal to walk a camel down Palm Canyon Drive between the hours of four and six PM. • Pasadena: It is illegal for a secretary to be alone in a room with her boss. • Persons classified as "ugly" may not walk down any street. • Prunedale: Two bathtubs may not be installed in the same house. • Redlands: Motor vehicles may not drive on city streets unless a man with a lantern is wallking ahead of it. • Riverside: One may not carry a lunch down the street between 11 and 1 o'clock. • San Diego: It is illegal to shoot jackrabbits from the back of a streetcar; The owners of houses with Christmas lights on them past February second may be fined up to $250. • San Francisco is said to be the only city in the nation to have ordinances guaranteeing sunshine to the masses. • San Francisco: Prohibits elephants from strolling down Market Street unless they are on a leash; It is illegal to wipe one's car with used underwear; Persons classified as "ugly" may not walk down any street; It is illegal to pile horse manure more than six feet high on a street corner; Giving or receiving oral sex is prohibited. • San Jose: It is illegal to have more than two cats or dogs. -Ord. 7.08.595 • Santa Monica: You may not play percussion instruments on the beach. • Sunshine is guaranteed to the masses. • Temecula: Ducks have the right of way to cross Rancho California St. at all times. • The Chico, California, City Council enacted a ban on nuclear weapons, setting a $500 fine for anyone detonating one within city limits. • Women may not drive in a house coat. • You can be fined $500 if you bother a butterfly in Pacific Grove, Ca.
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