Want to play catch on the sidewalk or in a park? You’d technically risk jail time under this over 80-year-old law.

A section of the law, believed to have been enacted in 1945, makes playing catch on some residential streets or sidewalks ...

A little-known and rarely enforced law prohibits ball games on some Los Angeles streets and sidewalks. The local council has begun the process of repealing it.

Councilman Bob Blumenfield, said the regulation was an "uncommonly silly law" when he introduced the motion last year.