Note posted by Brad Cunningham on April 17, 1998. Back with TBS still
showed The Andy Griffith Show. -- Allan
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With all the talk about the Green River ordinance lately, it was
interesting that the episode where it was mentioned was on WTBS this
evening. I am a legal student, and looked up the Green River ordinance
just to check it out. Here it is:
'Ordinance No. 175.
'Be It Ordained by the Town Council of the Town of Green River, Wyoming:
'Section 1. The practice of going in and upon private residences in
the Town of Green River, Wyoming, by solicitors, peddlers, hawkers,
itinerant merchants and transient vendors of merchandise, not having
been requested or invited so to do by the owner or owner occupant or
occupants of said private residences for the purpose of soliciting
orders for the sale of goods, wares and 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 as such nuisance as a misdemeanor.
'Section 2. The Town Marshal and Police Force of the Town of Green
River are heareby required and directed to suppress the same, and to
abate any such nuisance as is described in the first section of this
ordinance.
'Section 3. 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-five
($25.00) Dollars or more than One Hundred Dollars ($100.00), together
with costs of proceedings, which said fine may be satisfied, if not paid
in cash, by execution against the person of anyone convicted of
committing the misdemeanor 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this ordinance are hereby repealed.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 Town Council of the Town of
Green River that an emergency exists, this ordinance shall be in force
and effect from and after its passage and approval.
'Passed this 16th day of November, 1931.'
**The Fuller Brush Co. challenged this case and it was sent to the
Supreme Court which upheld the ordinance as valid.
Brad "aka Neil Bentley" Cunningham
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