DIXON – The Who’s “Pinball Wizard” is not welcome in the city.
According to city codes, it is unlawful for any person to keep or use a pinball machine in any public place.
Or as the code says, residents are prohibited from keeping “any game played with any number of balls or spheres upon a table or board having holes, pockets or cups into which such balls or spheres may drop or become lodged and having arches, pins, and springs, or any of them, to control, deflect, or impede the direction or speed of the balls or spheres put into motion by the player.”
Maybe readers missed it, but the Dixon City Council repealed Monday its ban on allowing fortune tellers to advertise, leading me to ask if there are any other odd codes on the books.
City Attorney Rob LeSage said the city has done its best to stay in front of outdated codes, but some slip through the cracks.
In this case, a fortune teller showed up at City Hall asking what she needed to do to open a business, and the city clerk discovered the odd law.
The tone was light when commissioners voted in favor of repealing the code that LeSage told them was unconstitutional.
Upon inspection of the city’s codes, nothing seems as strange as the city’s advertisement ban for fortune tellers. Most of the codes make sense.
However, I learned an arcade or youth center may have its work cut out for it installing a pinball machine.
At one time, and maybe still, it was common to gamble on pinball in taverns. Points tallied could be turned in for money.
Old hat games, such as bagatelle and pigeonhole, also are outlawed. So is any sleight-of-hand or card trick game used to swindle people.
For many obvious reasons, swine cannot be kept within the city limits, but any person may keep up to 3 Vietnamese potbellied pigs, a pet craze popular in the 1970s.
Upon some research, these types of pigs that reach as much as 150 pounds can be house-trained, and make decent pets.
It is unlawful for any pig owner to build a barbed-wire fence to keep them on their property, or any resident for that matter.
Read more here saukvalley.com
According to city codes, it is unlawful for any person to keep or use a pinball machine in any public place.
Or as the code says, residents are prohibited from keeping “any game played with any number of balls or spheres upon a table or board having holes, pockets or cups into which such balls or spheres may drop or become lodged and having arches, pins, and springs, or any of them, to control, deflect, or impede the direction or speed of the balls or spheres put into motion by the player.”
Maybe readers missed it, but the Dixon City Council repealed Monday its ban on allowing fortune tellers to advertise, leading me to ask if there are any other odd codes on the books.
City Attorney Rob LeSage said the city has done its best to stay in front of outdated codes, but some slip through the cracks.
In this case, a fortune teller showed up at City Hall asking what she needed to do to open a business, and the city clerk discovered the odd law.
The tone was light when commissioners voted in favor of repealing the code that LeSage told them was unconstitutional.
Upon inspection of the city’s codes, nothing seems as strange as the city’s advertisement ban for fortune tellers. Most of the codes make sense.
However, I learned an arcade or youth center may have its work cut out for it installing a pinball machine.
At one time, and maybe still, it was common to gamble on pinball in taverns. Points tallied could be turned in for money.
Old hat games, such as bagatelle and pigeonhole, also are outlawed. So is any sleight-of-hand or card trick game used to swindle people.
For many obvious reasons, swine cannot be kept within the city limits, but any person may keep up to 3 Vietnamese potbellied pigs, a pet craze popular in the 1970s.
Upon some research, these types of pigs that reach as much as 150 pounds can be house-trained, and make decent pets.
It is unlawful for any pig owner to build a barbed-wire fence to keep them on their property, or any resident for that matter.
Read more here saukvalley.com
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