Piane v. Town of Conway

Memorandum

This case involves an ordinance adopted by Conway to keep certain street vendors out of certain high traffic areas.

The challenged Conway ordinance is valid as a traffic control ordinance, a proper exercise of the police power delegated to the town by the legislature. RSA 31:39; Club Jolliet, Inc. v. Manchester, 110 N.H. 172, 175-76, 262 A.2d 844, 846-47 (1970). Although the ordinance affects hawkers and peddlers, whose activities may only be directly regulated under RSA 31:102-a (Supp. 1977), the record strongly suggests that the town fathers were acting to relieve traffic…