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Dumb
Laws - California
• 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 (Repealed when Clint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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