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Show 9 PUBLIC PROTECTED FARM PEDDLERS If you are bothered with so-called peddlers or solicitors hereafter, it is your own fault. All you have to clo is notify the authorities (in this case, the city chief of police) and the peddling offender will be fined not less than $25 and not more than $300 and that should certainly keep him off the premises. The offender can even be put in jail for not more than 6 months or he could get both the fine and the jail term. It is therefor, mighty risky business to try any little scheme of selling magazines, books, aluminum, photographs, in fact anything except fruits and vegetables veg-etables in Springville from house to house. All the property owner has to do is notify the police that such peddler or salesman has entered in or upon his private residence property and Bingo!!! the salesman sales-man gets at least $25. That is according to a recently enacted ordinance (Section 345 of Ordinance 11) just passed by the city council. It reads as follows: Section 345. Peddlers, Hawkers, Solicitors, Transient Vendors, and Itinerant Merchants forbidden for-bidden to trespass. It. shall be unlawful for any Solicitor, So-licitor, peddler, hawker, itinerant merchant or transient trans-ient vendor of merchandise (except peddlers of fruits and vegetables) who have not been requested or invited in-vited so to do by the owners or owners, occupant or occupants of said private residence to enter .in or upon any private residence property within the City limits of Springville, Utah, for the purpose of soliciting solicit-ing orders for goods, wares or merchandise, or for the purpose of selling or disposing of, or hawking or peddling the same, or offering the same for sale. Any person who violates the provisions of this Ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be subject to a fine in any sum not less than $25.00 nor more than $200.00 or by imprisonment in the City jail not exceeding six (6) months or by both such fine and imprisonment. There would be absolutely no complaint about such an ordinance, in fact, most of us would agree ' it is a good thing, but how many times will it be enforced. en-forced. It is like a lot of city rulings which look nice in print but when it comes to enforcing them, they are as though they never existed. It might be interesting just as an experiment the next time a bothersome salesman, solicitor or peddler ped-dler rings your doorbell to call the police. The police officers might be busy for a time but it would be one way of getting rid of the salesmen . . . and it would enrich the city coffers no end if all the peddlers were reported. Then there is the question also, should your neighbor be reported for soliciting your aid in some drive or for trying to sell you tickets to some benefit. They most certainly would be termed solicitors. But even if you don't report your neighbor, he should konw that he is breaking a city law to enter upon your property uninvited for the purpose of selling or disposing of any goods. It would be most interesting to see all laws and ordinances of this city or any other city for that matter, mat-ter, strictly enforced. |
