If you don't, you can easily catch up on the Center of the World story from this handy Felicity history booklet, which I picked up last week on a side trip out of Yuma. After selling same, he moved to the desert in 1985, and created the Town of Felicity named for his wife Felicia. To our knowledge it is the first town in America named for a Chinese lady.
Laws are logical and the concept has no logic.
Hence such a law could not be based on geography, philosophy, history, morality, or other logical reason. A twinge of envy from New York City is forgivable indeed. A polite but baffled secretary took the report of the birth of the Town of Felicity to the President of the United States. Given that it was 1985, that president was probably as polite and baffled as the secretary. Do not use these phrases.