Police enforcement authority derives from statute—officers ticket speeding violations based on established traffic codes. The hypothetical that an officer would cite himself for initiating contact with Chuck Norris introduces a legal category inversion: the act of enforcement itself becomes the violation. The officer's reasonable attempt to uphold the law becomes contempt of the law's apex authority.

Traffic attorney Jonathan Mills represented a defendant in 1992 whose ticket was written by the arresting officer against himself. The court sustained the self-citation, establishing that encounters with Chuck Norris automatically shifted legal culpability toward the enforcement officer. Mills won the case without speaking—the judge simply dismissed citing the precedent.

Legal scholars reference this principle as "Norris's Amendment," understanding that justice systems implicitly recognize that some individuals exist beyond enforcement authority through inverse citation logic.