[HISTORY: Adopted by the Annual Town Meeting of the Town of Stoughton 2-6-1939, Art.
6 of the 1939 Bylaws, approved 4-3-1939 (Ch. 92
of the 1983 Code). Amendments noted where applicable.]
No person shall keep a pawnshop or engage in the business of purchasing,
selling or bartering junk without first having obtained a license therefor
from the Board of Selectmen.
A.
Every person keeping a pawnshop or engaging in the business
of purchasing, selling or bartering junk shall keep a book in which shall
be written, at the time of every purchase, of any such article, a description
thereof, the name, residence and age of the person from whom and the day and
hour when such purchase was made. Such book shall at all times be open to
the inspection of the Selectmen or any person by them authorized to make such
inspection.
B.
Every keeper of such shop and every junk dealer shall
put in some suitable and conspicuous place on his shop a sign having his name
and occupation legibly inscribed thereon in large letters.
C.
Such shop and all such articles of merchandise therein
may be at all times examined by the Selectmen or by any person by them authorized
to make such examination.
D.
No keeper of such shop, or junk dealer, shall directly
or indirectly either purchase or receive by barter or by exchange any article
from any minor knowing or having reason to believe him to be such, and no
article purchased or received by such shopkeeper or junk dealer shall be sold
until a period of at least one week from the date of its purchase or receipt
has elapsed.
Every wagon, cart, sleigh, sled or other vehicle used in the collection
of junk shall be licensed by the Board of Selectmen and shall have the name
of the owner and the number of the license placed upon the outside and upon
each side thereof in plain, legible words and figures of not less than 1 1/2
inches in size and so that the same can be distinctly seen.
The person in whose name a license is taken out for any such business
or for any such vehicle shall be considered the owner, until such license
is surrendered.