The Michigan Daily-Wednesday, July 22, 1981-Page 7

City
Council
restricts
solicitors
By LOU FINTOR
Daily staff writer
In an attempt to discourage the influx
of unlicensed individuals and
organizations soliciting the thousands
of people visiting the Art Fair, the Ann
Arbor City Council has implemented
two resolutions which will prohibit
"street peddling" and "bucket
donation" solicitation - a method of
collecting donations by standing on
street corners or roaming through
crowds with buckets.
The resolutions state that bucket
solicitation is unexceptionally
prohibited and "street peddling" will
be prohibited both in art fair areas and
within a three-block radius around
those areas, unless the peddler has
been issued a license by the Art Fair
Committee.
ACCORDING TO City Administrator
Terry Sprenkel, the resolutions were
necessary to "put some controls" on
individuals and organizations represen-
ting themselves as recognized art fair
participants and to "be fair to all."
"The problem is that there are excep-
tionally large number of groups that
have sought to get permits," Sprenkel
said, adding, "Many of the groups are
not from Ann Arbor and have not been
found to be bona-fide non-profit
organizations."
Ann Arbor Police Department
Special Services Captain Kenneth
Klinge said the police will be actively
enforcing the resolutions during the art
fair by checking solicitors for valid art
fair licenses.
"ANY PEDDLERS without a license
in that (the Art Fair) area will be
required to leave. and are subject to
receive a code violation," said Klinge,
"and there will be no bucket soliciting
unless specifically approved by council
or the administrator's office."
According to Klinge, the areas that
are designated "Art Fair" are the
South University, State Street "free
fair" between South University and
William, State Street and the Main
Street area between William and
Huron.
"We have delineated the area by
streets," said Klinge, maintaining that
"street peddlers" - such as the
familiar sandwich and ice cream ven-
dors will not be allowed within the
boundaries or a three-block radius of
the fair.
IN ADDITION, the Ann Arbor Police
Department will be maintaining a
"mini-station" at the corner of South
University and E. University to assist
visitors and merchants 'during fair
hours, as well as monitor fair vendors.
"We will be checking licenses," said
Klinge, "because we have had people at
past art fairs that have actually bought
things at K-Mart and sold them as art."
Klinge is in general optimistic about
citizen cooperation in enforcing the
resolutions, pointing out that during
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