I just found the information again and I did make a few mistakes. I found the
actual banned frequencies but this makes it even more interesting because it
seems that most shortwave listeners are okay. It's the AM broadcast band
listeners who are at risk of being legally arrested for listening!!!

My mistake saying it was "California Law" although the info was in a section
about California listening laws. However, the fact is that it IS Los Angeles
County Law.

The law bans "any shortwave reciever installed in a car".

The law further goes on to define "a shortwave reciever".

According to L.A. law, a shortwave radio reciever is any radio eciever that is
capable of tuning on or between 1600 kilocycles and 2500 kilocycles and on or
between 30 megacycles and 40 megacycles.

This law IS still in effect in L.A. county.

(whethe r or not it's still enforced is another matter, but you could be
legally arrested for having such a radio installed in your car if you're in Los
Angeles county.

And most cars today have such radios installed as part of the manufacturing
process.

You can easily find shortwave radios that do not cover 1600 to 2500 khz.

However, the AM broadcast band goes to 1710 khz, which is standard in cars, and
illegal to have installed in a car in L.A. county.

After all, the 1600 mc to 1710 kc portion of the AM broadcast band is in the
banned range of 1600 kc to 2500 kc.

Once again, this applies only to the city and county of Los Angeles,
California.

"The land of fruits and nuts".