You can buy weed and smoke up in Las Vegas. You can find a stripper or a prostitute. You can gamble anywhere. And you can get married on a lark by a guy dressed up as Elvis Presley.
But don’t think of carrying a water gun, snoozing on a park bench, or driving a mobile billboard that exceeds the length specified by Harry Reid’s son. It seems Sin City is increasingly puritanical on everything but sex and drugs.
The Clark County Commission voted unanimously on Dec. 3 to regulate rolling billboards, banning those that are too long or too wide, and prohibiting them from operating on windy days. Rory Reid, the revolving-door-lobbyist son of the former U.S. Senate majority leader, helped pass the law, explaining that his clients want the regulations, which oddly correspond with the dimensions of his clients’ mobile billboards.
The billboard vote came two weeks after the city council voted to ban toy and replica guns in Vegas’s Fremont East district. Violators, such as those toting Super Soakers, can face a $1,000 fine and up to six months in jail.
Cracking down on homelessness, the city council is also moving toward a ban on camping or sleeping in the streets in some parts of Vegas.
For years, Vegas had a football team in either the XFL or the Arena Football League. The team was called the Outlaws, and they folded in 2015. Given the rampant expansion of regulation in the town, it seems inevitable the number of actual outlaws will grow.
