[HISTORY: Adopted by the Town Meeting of
the Town of Boxford 5-20-1980 ATM, Art. 40, as Secs. 9-1-3 and 9-1-4 of the 1980 Bylaws.
Amendments noted where applicable.]
[Amended 9-12-2020 ATM by Art. 19]
The Select Board may license suitable persons
to be dealers in and keepers of shops for the purchase, sale or barter
of junk, old metals or secondhand metals. The Board may also license
suitable persons as junk collectors to collect, by purchase or otherwise,
junk, old metals and secondhand articles from place to place in town.
It may also provide that such collectors display badges on their persons
or vehicles, or both, when engaged in collecting, transporting or
dealing in junk, old metals or secondhand articles, and it may prescribe
the design thereof. It may also provide that such shops and all articles
or merchandise therein, any place, vehicle or receptacle used for
collection or keeping of such articles may be examined at any time
by any authorized persons.
Every keeper of a shop for the purchase, sale
or barter of junk, old metals or secondhand articles shall place,
in a suitable and conspicuous site in his shop, a sign having his
name and occupation legibly inscribed thereon.
