Current & Past Strange Laws in Los Angeles County

Arcadia

Peacocks have the right of way to cross any street, including driveways.

Alhambra

You cannot leave your car on the street overnight without the proper permit.

Baldwin Park

Nobody is allowed to ride a bicycle in a swimming pool.

Downey

It is illegal to wash your car in the street. (Passed 1995).

Hollywood (when it was an independent city)

It is illegal to drive more than two thousand sheep down Hollywood
Boulevard at one time.

Long Beach

Cars are the only item allowed in a garage.

It is illegal to curse on a mini-golf course.

City of 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 streetlight.

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.

Zoot suits are prohibited.

Illegal to stage a bullfight in your backyard

Illegal to blow snuff in another’s face

Illegal to bath in someone else’s bathwater

Illegal to fly a balloon more than five feet off the ground

Illegal to wash your neighbor’s car without permission

Illegal to sit on an outdoor restaurant table

Pasadena

It is illegal for a secretary to be alone in a room with her boss.

Santa Monica

You may not play percussion instruments on the beach.