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LAGRANGE, Ind. (AP) – Peace, Love – and LaGrange.
LaGrange County, Indiana, repealed a 1971 law intended to block huge events such as the 1969 Woodstock Music Festival in New York State.
“I called it our anti-hippie ordinance,” Land Commissioner Dennis Kratz said with a smile.
The ordinance regulated large gatherings that lasted more than 12 hours and involved more than 500 people, reports The News Sun.
The law was recently dropped as part of an effort to repeal regulations that have no practical use but have been in the books for as long as 100 years, especially certain traffic restrictions. Provincial attorney Kurt Bachman’s research lasted three years.
“There were many things during the process that made us go, ‘what? “… It was an incredible learning process,” Bachman said, aiming to shift state laws to an electronic, searchable record.
The province is in northern Indiana, along the Michigan border.