[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.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Licenses and permits — See Ch. 124.
Peddling and soliciting — See Ch. 140.
Secondhand jewelry — See Ch. 146.
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.