Kwartler's goal is to inspire an ordinance along the lines of the Japanese Nisshoken, or Right to Sunshine law, or England's Law of Ancient Lights.
In its original form, later changed, the ordinance gave residents a line to check to indicate explicitly that they did not want to be visited by Jehovah's Witnesses.
Charlotte's revised ordinance essentially brought it in line with the rest of the state, where there was no law regarding bathrooms at all.
Almost all Chincoteague oysters were sent out of state, and the federal Public Health Service intervened in 1916 to get the mayor and town council to order improved sanitation, with islanders living outside the town line agreeing to abide by the ordinances.
That prompted the mayor of Simi Valley, Bob Huber, to announce last week he would ask the city attorney for his community, located just across the county line from the San Fernando Valley, to write a similar ordinance.
In Alabama, the city council of Oxford voted 3-2 to recall the ordinance it passed a week ago banning anyone using a toilet not in line with his or her biological sex.
Chief McManus said he was not suspending the enforcement of any ordinances, and rifle owners at the rally walked a fine legal line as a result.
With its whimsical line drawings and gee-whiz marginalia (heard the one about the ordinance decreeing that feces be removed from hallways at Versailles at least once a week?), "The Dirt on Clean" is an amusing if somewhat haphazard primer.
"This ordinance will serve as a deterrent, preventing a business from moving into San Francisco and selling animals from irresponsible mass-producing breeders that churn out puppies and kittens as if they were on an assembly line," the editorial reads.
Most zoning ordinances and neighborhood codes will specify a required setback from your property line.
