206ORDINANCE N0. ~n~
BE IT ORDANINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF 1NEST APHIS, ARI{ANSASt
SECTION 1. PEDDLING AND SOLICITING DECLARED A NUISANCE * The
practice of going in and upon private residences in the City of lifest
Memphis, Arkansas, by solicitors, peddlers, haarkers_, itinerant merchants
and transient vendors of merchandise, not having been requested or in-
vited so to do by the owner or owners, occupant or occupants of said
private residences, for the purpose of soliciting orders for the sale of
goods, xares and merchandise, and/or for the purpose of disposing of
and/or peddling or hacking the same and/or rendering of service, is
hereby declared to be a nuisance, and punishable as such nuisance as a
misdemesaor.
SECTION 2. SUPPRESSION OF NUISANCE - The Chief of Police of the
City of West Memphis is hereby required and directed to suppress the
same and to abate any such nuisance as is described in the first eecti.on
of this ordinance.
SECTION 3. PENALTY -Any person convicted of perpetrating a
nuisance as described and prohibited in the first section of this
ordinance, upon conviction thereof shall be fined in a sum not less
than TWENTY-~FIYE(~25.00)DOLLAI~S or more the ~ HUNDRED(•00)DOLLARS,
together xi.th costs of the Court.
SECTION 4. EME~rENCY CLAUSE « It being determined that there are
many parsons going i.n and about and upon streets of the City of West
Memphis and upon private property, peddling and soliciting items of
various kinds, many of 'which are dangerous; that many people have been
cheated, wronged and defrauded of their money and goods by unauthorised
solicitors; that many people are annoyed by solicitors ringing doorbells,
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knocking on doors and disturbing the peace and quietude of many residents
of the City of West Memphis at all hougs of the day and night; that many
solicitors are persistent in their efforts tc> sell; that many complaints
have been made to the City Council of the City of West Memphis and the
Police Force of annoyance by solicitors and that such annoyance exists to
such an extent that an emergency is declared to exists and this Ordinance
shall be in full force and effect from and after its passage and approval.
PASSED AAiD APPROVED this 15th day of Januaz-Sri 1952.
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City Clerk
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