Attention Natchez city leaders. We the citizens of Natchez have a simple request: Please provide us all with a list of which city laws you plan to enforce.

We need that to understand what’s important to keep in mind and what isn’t as we all go about our business in the city.

Is littering still an offense?

What about the city’s leash law?

Is it OK now to just park anywhere we’d like on city streets?

Speaking of parking, is it OK to ignore time limits and handicapped zones?

Clearly, we’re joking about some of these matters, but enforcement of ordinances is a “gray” area with city leaders.

Case in point, the city’s often endorsed, but rarely enforced sign ordinance.

The very ordinance intended to preserve the beauty of our city which has raised huge hurdles for some business owners through the years has also been completely ignored by other businesses and individuals, seemingly with no penalty.

Apparently, that penalty is even more ignored if you happen to be a political candidate who seeks to pepper the streets of Natchez with propaganda.

Natchez City Planner Bob Nix’s recent confession that he did not plan to enforce the city’s own code which bans political campaign signs before the qualification deadline — March 30 — is baffling, but not surprising.

The city’s code — the one that the city’s elected officials all swore to uphold — is rarely enforced with a consistent, steady hand.

But clearly it should be enforced. If the ordinance needs to be changed, let’s dust it off, clean it up and change it. Simply ignoring a law because of inconsistent enforcement in the past is, well, just lazy.