be in the statute book

In Ford's fictional Candy, two unusual laws are in the statute books.

Section 377A has been in the statute books since the 1930s and has been retained even after the Penal Code review of October 2007.

Glanville was elected President of the ICE in November 1950 and such was his popularity in that office that there was a movement amongst members to waive the law that limits presidents to one term that had long been in the statute books.