[HISTORY: Adopted by the Special Town Meeting 11-12-1974
by Art. 2 as Art. VIII, Secs. 1 and 2 of the Bylaws of 1975. Amendments noted
where applicable.]
The Selectmen may license suitable persons to be dealers or keepers
of shops for the purchase, sale or barter of junk, old metals or secondhand
articles in the town. They may also license suitable persons as junk collectors
to carry, by purchase or otherwise, junk, old metals and secondhand articles
from place to place in the town, and they may provide that such collectors
shall display badges upon their persons or upon their vehicles, or upon both,
when engaged in collecting, transferring or dealing in junk, old metals or
secondhand articles; and may prescribe the design thereof and may make rules,
regulations and restrictions, in addition and not inconsistent with those
herein provided, relative to their business and may provide for the supervision
thereof.
Every keeper of a shop for the purchase, sale or barter of junk, old
metals or secondhand articles within the limits of the town shall keep a book
in which shall be written, at the time of every purchase of any such articles,
the description thereof and the name, age and residence 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; and every keeper of such shop shall put,
in a suitable and conspicuous place in his shop, a sign having his name and
occupation legibly inscribed thereon in large letters; and such shop and all
articles of merchandise therein may be at all times examined by the Selectmen
or any person by them authorized to make such examination; and no keeper of
such shop and no junk collector shall, directly or indirectly, either purchase
or receive, by way of barter or exchange, any of the articles aforesaid of
a minor, knowing or having reason to believe him to be such.
