On Monday night, 9-year-old Dane Best made history by throwing a snowball.

It was the first legal snowball thrown in the small Colorado town of Severance after the third-grader persuaded the town board to unanimously vote to change a century-old ordinance.

"We went on a field trip, and the mayor told us crazy laws and he told us the snowball law," Dane said.

The law prohibited throwing any stone or missile — including a snowball — at any person, tree, animal, building or vehicle in the town. Dane asked the town board to add an exemption to the rule for snowball fights.

"I wanted to be able to throw snowballs without getting in trouble," Dane said. "I thought it was an outdated law."

On Monday, the Range View Elementary School student donned a bow tie and presented his proposal to the town board.

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With his mother's help, he showed the board a presentation with reasons why snowball fights should be legal, including that they encourage children to play outside in the winter, which prevents obesity, ADHD, anxiety and depression, Dane said.

"My mom typed all the stuff and I told her what to write, and she helped me fix mistakes," Dane said. "We researched a little bit."

While no other children in attendance Monday opted to speak, Dane said many of his classmates agreed that this law should be changed — they even wrote letters and an opinion paper on the subject, which Dane brought copies of for the board.

"The children of Severance want an opportunity to have a snowball fight like the rest of the world," Dane said in his presentation. "Kids want to have snowball fights without breaking the law. Kids want to have a voice in our town."

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After the vote, Dane went outside and threw the fist legal snowball in Severance. Dane told the board he wanted his first target to be his younger brother. However, Severance Mayor Donald McLeod advised against a full-blown snowball fight during the meeting.

"He's going to get a lot thrown at him," Dane said, referring to his younger brother, Dax.

The snowball ban in Severance was put on the books more than 100 years ago, Dane said his discovered in his research. The town was one of four — now three — in the state with a similar law.

For the past four years, McLeod said he's been telling class field trips about these odd laws and encouraging them to change it if they feel it's wrong or outdated.

"We try to get the third-graders involved, and Dane was the third-grader for the job," McLeod said.

Dane said he isn't done yet. He said the next town law he wants to change currently defines pets as only a cat or dog, and it limits the number of pets in a household to three.

"I want a guinea pig," Dane said.

But before that, McLeod said Dane is going to help organize a town-wide snowball fight.

"We're going to have the biggest town snowball fight of all time," McLeod said, with Dane smiling and nodding next to him.

This experience was exciting, Dane said, and it may have inspired him to run for political office someday.

"I learned that you can change a law, you can have a voice in your town when you're little," Dane said. "I thought you had to be like 18 to do it."