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Hopefully, residents of the city have spedometers on their horses, for they can not ride them in excess of ten miles per hour.

Posted in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States

Full text of the Law

Sec. 441-105. Effect of this chapter on horses and other animals. No horse or other animal, either driven or ridden, shall be left unattended, unhitched or insecurely fastened upon any street or public place, or hitched or left at any place when and where the parking of motor vehicles is prohibited and, when so left, the horse or other animal and any vehicle drawn by it shall be subject to all applicable provisions regulating motor vehicles at any such time and place. No horse shall be driven or ridden on any street in the city at a speed in excess of ten (10) miles per hour and every horse shall be kept under control at all times by the person in charge thereof. Such person shall be subject to all applicable traffic regulations that apply to motor vehicles. (Code 1975, § 29-5)

One may only throw a stone at a bird in self-defense.

Posted in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States

Full text of the Law

Sec. 403-4. Throwing stones or other missiles. It shall be unlawful for any person to throw any stone or other missile at any bird or any animal, except in self-defense, or to throw a stone or other missile on or across any street, alley or public place of the city. (Code 1975, § 20-6)

No person may collect rags on Sunday.

Posted in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States

Full text of the Law

Sec. 401-103. Rag and paper collecting. No person shall engage in the occupation of paper or rag collecting or general junking on foot, or by handcart, automobile or other vehicle, before the hour of 7:30 a.m. or after the hour of 5:30 p.m., except in the area of the city bounded on the north by North Street, on the south by South Street, on the east by East Street, and on the west by West Street; provided, however, no paper or rag collecting shall be permitted at any time of the day or night on Sundays or legal holidays. (Code 1975, § 20-11)

Women may not wear a 'lewd dress' in public.

Posted in Alabama, Mobile, United States

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Sec. 39-112. Same--Indecent dress, etc. It shall be unlawful for any person to appear in any public place in a state of nudity or indecent or lewd dress, or make an indecent exposure of his person, or to perform or commit any indecent act. (Code 1965, § 41-21.1)

No one may use a 'funk ball' within the city limits.

Posted in Alabama, Mobile, United States

Bathing in city fountains is prohibited.

Posted in Alabama, Mobile, United States

No person within the city may possess confetti.

Posted in Alabama, Mobile, United States

Full text of the Law

Sec. 39-77. Use, sale, etc., of confetti. It shall be unlawful and an offense against the city for any person to have in possession, keep, store, use, manufacture, sell, offer for sale, give away or handle any confetti or other substance or matters similar thereto, but not serpentine, within the city or within its police jurisdiction. (Code 1965, § 41-3)

It is illegal to spit orange peels on the sidewalk.

Posted in Alabama, Mobile, United States

'Spray String' is banned.

Posted in Alabama, Mobile, United States

Most locales do not have this problem, but Mobile found it necessary to ban bicycles from the interstate highways.

Posted in Alabama, Mobile, United States

If one wishes to read palms in the city, they must first pay $10 for a permit.

Posted in Alabama, Mobile, United States

Apparently the good folks in Detroit did not quite know what ‘new’ meant.

Posted in Detroit, Michigan, United States

Putt-putt golf courses must close by 1:00 AM.

Posted in Detroit, Michigan, United States

Honking one’s car horn at a sandwich shop after 9 PM is against the law.

Posted in Little Rock, Arkansas, United States

no one may "suddenly start or stop” their car at a McDonald’s.

Posted in Little Rock, Arkansas, United States

Full text of the Law

Sec. 18-53. Conduct in drive-in restaurants. (a) In this section "drive-in restaurant" means any restaurant where meals, sandwiches, ice cream, or other food, is served directly to or is permitted to be consumed by patrons in automobiles, motorcycles or other vehicles parked on the premises. (b) It shall be unlawful for any person while on or adjacent to the premises of a drive-in restaurant to race the motor of any car, to suddenly start or stop any car, or to make or cause to be made, any other loud or unseemly noise. It shall be unlawful for any other person parked on the premises of a drive-in restaurant, to blow or cause to be blown any automobile horn or motorcycle horn at any time while parked. (c) It shall be unlawful for any patron or other person on the premises of a drive-in restaurant to drink any beer, unless purchased on the premises. It shall be unlawful for any patron or other person on the premises of a drive-in restaurant to create a disturbance or a breach of the peace in any way whatsoever, including but not limited to loud and offensive talk, the making of threats or attempting to intimidate, or in any other conduct which causes a disturbance or a breach of the peace or threatened breach of peace. No person shall drive a motor vehicle onto the premises of a drive-in restaurant and leave the premises without parking such motor vehicle, unless there is no unoccupied parking space available on the premises. (d) It shall also be unlawful for any person to leave any unoccupied motor vehicle on any drive-in restaurant parking lot and leave the premises thereof except with the knowledge and consent of the operator of the restaurant. (e) It shall be the duty of each drive-in restaurant operator to post on the premises, in a conspicuous location, one (1) or more signs bearing the following legend: "Cruising in a motor vehicle is unlawful. Loud and offensive talk and other disturbance or breach of peace is prohibited. No unoccupied vehicle may be left on these premises without the consent of the restaurant operator." (Code 1961, §§ 25-156--25-158)