It's Illegal to Ride a Horse Drunk in Las Vegas

LVMC 7.32.140 makes it unlawful to ride or drive an animal while under the influence. If that sounds redundant, it isn't: Nevada's DUI statute is written around vehicles, which leaves what you might call a horse-shaped gap in the law. A city that grew up with horses as actual, everyday downtown transportation quietly closed that gap with an ordinance of its own — and, in the grand tradition of municipal codes, never saw any reason to remove it once the hitching posts disappeared.

The ordinance lives in Title 7 of the city code, the animals title, alongside rules on livestock and wild-animal feeding. It surfaced in the Review-Journal's 2023 roundup of odd laws still on the Las Vegas books, and no modern enforcement has been documented — unsurprising, given how few saddle horses cross Fremont Street these days. But it remains a genuine misdemeanor, and it answers a bar-trivia question with a real citation: no, you cannot legally swap your car for a horse after a night of drinking in Las Vegas. The city thought of that, roughly a century before you did.