No. 88 Prohibit Transient Merchants from Private Residences

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TOWN OF NEWELL

Ordinance 88

 

Prohibit Transient Merchants from Private Residences

 

Section 1. The practice of being in and upon private residences in the City of Newell, by solicitors, peddlers, hawkers, itinerant merchants, and transient vendors of merchandise, not have been requested or invited so to do by the owner or owners, occupant or occupants of said private residence, for the purpose of soliciting orders for the sale of goods, wares or merchandise, and/or for the purpose of disposing of and/or peddling or hawking the same, is hereby declared to be a nuisance, and punishable by such nuisance as a misdemeanor.

 

Section 2. The Town Marshal and Police Force of the City of Newell are herby required and directed to suppress the same, and to abate any such nuisance as is described in Section 1 of this Ordinance.

 

Section 3. Any person convicted of perpetrating a nuisance, as described and prohibited in Section 1 of this Ordinance, upon conviction thereof shall be Fined a sum not less than Twenty five ($25.00) dollars or more than One hundred ($100.00) dollars together with Costs of proceedings, which said Fine may be satisfied, if not paid in cash by execution against the person of anyone convicted or committing the misdemeanor as herein prohibited.

 

Section 4. All Ordinances and parts of Ordinances in conflict with this Ordinance are hereby repealed.

 

Section 5. It being deemed by the City Commissioners of the City of Newell that an emergency exists, this Ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and after its passage and approval.