[Adopted STM 9-30-1974 by Art. 9 as Ch. VIII of the 1975 Bylaws]
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License and Permits
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Fees and Special Provisions
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Auctioneer
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$2.00 if resident for 6 months; $5.00 per day
for nonresident
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Automobile dealer
[Amended STM 2-27-1991 by Art. 1] |
Fees and special provisions fixed by the Licensing
Board, not to exceed $100. for Class 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 licenses under
MGL C. 140, § 59
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Clubs
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Not more than $5.00
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Common victualler
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$10.00
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Dog kennels*
[Amended ATM 5-20-2003 by Art. 23; STM 4-6-2005 by Art. 12] | |||
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For 5 to 9 dogs (residential kennel)
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$50.00
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For 10 or more dogs (commercial kennel)
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$150.00
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*Dogs under 3 months of age are not to be counted.
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Dogs
[Amended ATM 5-20-2003 by Art. 23; STM 4-6-2005 by Art. 12] | |||
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Male or female
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$25.00
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Spayed female or neutered male
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$10.00
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Seeing Eye dogs
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No fee
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Firearms
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Pistol permit
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$10.00 for 5 years
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ID cards
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$2.00
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Fortune-telling
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$2.00 (must be a resident for at least 12 months)
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Gasoline station and storage
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Fee established by bylaw
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Going-out-of-business sale
Gun dealer
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Fee paid to Town Clerk of $1.00 per page on
inventory of sales; bond in penal sum of $1,000.00 with sureties approved
by the Board of Selectmen
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$3.00
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Ice cream and frozen dessert
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License for retail manufacture, $5.00 for plant;
wholesale manufacture varies, $25.00. See MGL C. 94, § 65S.
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Inn-holders (radio and TV)
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$1.00
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Jukebox
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$5.00; no fee if person also licensed under
MGL C. 140, § 2, inn-holders and common victualler
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Junk dealers
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Not less than $5.00; as Board deems necessary
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Lodging house
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Not exceeding $2.00
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Mechanical amusement devices
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$20.00
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Milk pasteurization plant
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$10.00
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Milk, sale of
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$2.00
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Mobile home parks
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$10.00 (MGL C. 140, § 32B); MGL C.
140, § 32C, additional license fee of $6.00 per month on
account of each mobile home occupying space in park; exemption for
military
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Motels
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$10.00
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Nonintoxicating beverages
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$1.00
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Nursery day school
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Reasonable fee
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Picnic groves
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$2.00 but not more than $5.00
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Pinball machines
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$20.00
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Plumbing
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Regulated by State Board (MGL C. 142)
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Pool tables
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$20.00
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Poppy drive sale permits
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No charge
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Septic tanks
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Local bylaw, if any (MGL C. 40, § 21)
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Soil removal
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Local bylaw, if any (MGL C. 40, § 21)
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Sunday license (public entertainment and sports)
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$50.00 annually; $2.00 per single day (subject
to approval of Commission of Public Safety)
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Tag sale permits
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$1.00 per day
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Telephone pole location
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$3.00 plus $0.50 additional for each street
or way included
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Temporary wine and malt license
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$5.00
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Transient vendor or hawkers and peddlers
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$11.00
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Veterans, charity, sales of flags, buttons,
etc.
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Local bylaw, if any
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A.
The fee to be charged for licenses under the provisions
of Massachusetts General Laws, Chapter 148, are hereby established.
The fee required for licenses for keeping, storing and selling, in
a designated building or structure, gasoline or other volatile inflammable
fluid in the following amounts shall be as follows: for each one-thousand-gallon
storage or fraction thereof, a fee of $1 up to a maximum fee of $50.
B.
The fees to be charged for a registration of a certificate
under the provisions of Massachusetts General Laws, Chapter 148, shall
be 1/2 of the fee herein established for a license for like use of
the designated building or structure.
The above licenses can be granted seasonal or
annual.
[Added ATM 5-20-1997 by Art. 21[1]]
In accordance with the provisions of M.G.L.
c. 40, § 57, as amended, any licensing authority of the
Town may deny any application for or revoke or suspend any local license
or permit, including renewals and transfers, issued by such board
or officer as to any person, corporation or business enterprise, referred
to hereinafter as the "occupant," who has neglected or refused to
pay any local tax, fee, assessment, betterment or any other municipal
charge with respect to any activity, event or other matter which is
the subject of such license or permit and which activity, event or
matter is carried out or exercised or is to be carried out or exercised
on or about real estate whose owner has neglected to pay any local
tax, fee, assessment, betterment or any other municipal charge.
A.
The Tax Collector or other municipal officer responsible
for records of town taxes, assessments, betterments and other town
charges, hereinafter referred to as the "Tax Collector," shall annually
furnish to each department, board, commission or division, herein
referred to as the "licensing authority," that issues licenses or
permits, including renewals and transfers, a list of any person, corporation
or business enterprise, hereinafter referred to as the "party," that
has neglected or refused to pay any local tax, fee, assessment, betterment
or other municipal charge for not less than a twelve-month period
and that such a party has not filed in good faith a pending application
for an abatement of such tax, fee, assessment, betterment or other
municipal charge or a pending petition before the Appellate Tax Board
or other appellate authority.
B.
The licensing authority may, except as provided in § 1-15E below, deny, revoke or suspend any license or permit, including renewals and transfers, of any party whose name appears on said list furnished to the licensing authority by the Tax Collector, or any occupant of premises whose owner's name appears on said list; provided, however, that written notice is given to the party, and the Tax Collector, as required by applicable provisions of law, and the occupant and the party and occupant are given a hearing, to be held not earlier than 14 days after said notice. Said list shall be prima facie evidence of denial, revocation or suspension of said license or permit to any party or occupant. The Tax Collector shall have the right to intervene in any hearing conducted with respect to such license denial, revocation or suspension. Any findings made by the licensing authority with respect to such license denial, revocation or suspension shall be made only for the purpose of such proceeding and shall not be relevant to or introduced in any other proceeding at law, except for any appeal from such license denial, revocation or suspension. Any license or permit denied, suspended or revoked under this section shall not be reissued or renewed until the licensing authority receives a certificate issued by the Tax Collector that the party is in good standing with respect to any and all local taxes, fees, assessments, betterments or other municipal charges, payable to the municipality as the date of issuance of said certificate.
C.
Any party shall be given an opportunity to enter into
a payment agreement, thereby allowing the licensing authority to issue
a certificate indicating said limitations to the license or permit,
and the validity of said license shall be conditioned upon the satisfactory
compliance with said agreement. Failure to comply with said agreement
shall be grounds for the suspension or revocation of said license
or permit; provided, however, that the holder be given notice and
a hearing as required by applicable provisions of law.
D.
The Board of Selectmen may waive such denial, suspension
or revocation if it finds that there is no direct or indirect business
interest by the property owner, its officers or stockholders, if any,
or members of his immediate family, as defined in M.G.L. c. 268, § 1,
in the business or activity conducted in or on said property.
E.
This section shall not apply to the following licenses
and permits: open burning; bicycle permits; sales of articles for
charitable purposes; children work permits; clubs; associations dispensing
food or beverage licenses; dog licenses; fishing, hunting, trapping
licenses; marriage licenses; theatrical events and public exhibition
permits.
