At a press conference in early December, the local deputy police chief of Wausau, Wisconsin, picked up a snowball and hurled it at the city’s mayor on camera. Under the city’s current law, Mayor Robert Mielke could have pressed charges.

But that’s about to change, according to Wausau officials, who are finally considering lifting a 1962 ban on snowballs. The ordinance states that “no person shall throw or shoot any object, arrow, stone, snowball or other missile or projectile, by hand or by any other means, at any other person or at, in or into any building, street, sidewalk, alley, highway, park, playground or other public place within the city.”