Minnesota Statutes Municipal Public Safety (Ch. 436-439) § 437.09. Shows prohibited without license

No person, firm, copartnership, corporation, or association of any nature or kind shall operate or attempt to operate or carry on any itinerant carnival, street show, street fair, sideshow, circus, or any similar enterprise within one mile of the corporate limits of any city of the fourth class in this state without license or permit so to do lawfully granted under the restrictions provided insections 437.07to437.10.

Any person violating any of the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor; and any such enterprise operated without license or permit as herein prescribed is hereby declared to be a public nuisance.