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VILLAGE OF ELK RIVER COUNCIL MEETING October 4, 1937 The regular meeting of the Village Council was held at the Municipal Bldg Mon Oct 4, 1937 at 8 o’clock P.M. Members present: J.D. Flaherty, Pres.; G.A. Bailey, Geo Cornelius, Wm Patenaude, Trustees; Wm H Greupner, Clerk. The minutes of last meeting were read and approved. Frank White, Village attorney, read a letter from Mr. Noonan, attorney for Mr. O.W. Farrell stating that the reason they were not at the last council meeting in regards to the building permit for the Oil Station was that they thought the council could act on it without there being present. A motion was made by Wm Patenaude seconded by Geo Cornelius to table this matter. L.G. Nelson, Pres of the Fairboard, Chas Bade, L.K. Houlton, Donald Davis, members of the fairboard came before the Council and asked if the Council would grant them an appropriation for the Sherburne County Fair as they had in the past years. A motion was made by Wm Greupner seconded by Geo Cornelius to appropriate $25.00 to the Sherburne Co Fair Association. Motion carried. A committee representing the Elk River Merchants presented the Green River Ordinance to the Council and asked to have it approved. A motion was made by Geo Cornelius seconded by Wm Greupner to adopt the following Green River Ordinance. Ordinance No. 36 An Ordinance forbidding solicitors, peddlers, hawkers, itinerant merchants and transient vendors of merchandise from trespassing in and upon private residences when uninvited to do so by the owners and occupants of said private residences, in soliciting and attempting to solicit orders or in selling and exposing for sale wares and merchandise and declaring such soliciting to be a nuisance and directing the police authorizes to abate such nuisances and fixing the penalty for committing such nuisances. Be it ordained by the Village Council of the village of Elk River, State of Minnesota Section 1 – The practices of going in and upon private residences in the Village of Elk River, Minnesota by solicitors, peddlers, hawkers, itinerant merchants and transient vendors of merchandise not having been requested or invited 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, wares and merchandise and or for the purpose of desposing 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 Village Marshall and police force of the Village of Elk River are hereby 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 or perpetrating a nuisance as described and prohibited in the first section of this ordinance upon conviction thereof shall be fined a sum not less than twenty-five