[Adopted as Title 5, Ch. 5.12, of the 1986 Code]
No person shall go about from place to place within the City carrying or exposing for sale or selling fruits or vegetables, except those raised or produced by himself or his family, and no person shall go about from place to place within the City carrying or exposing for sale or selling fish, except fish obtained by his own labor, or that of his family, in or from any cart, wagon or other vehicle or in any other manner, without a license therefor from the Board of Police Commissioners.
A. 
Qualification of licensee. The Board of Police Commissioners shall have authority to grant one or both of such licenses to any person of good repute for morals and integrity who is, or has declared his intention to become, a citizen of the United States.
B. 
Duration of license. Licenses shall bear the date of the day on which they are issued and, unless sooner revoked by the Board of Police Commissioners, shall continue in force for one year from such date.
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Fees. Each person so licensed to sell fruits and vegetables shall pay therefor a fee of $25, and each person so licensed to sell fish shall pay therefor a fee of $15.
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No hawker or peddler shall sell, or offer or expose for sale, any of the articles enumerated in MGL c. 101, § 17, or in any acts in amendment thereof or in addition thereto, until he has recorded his name and residence with the Board of Police Commissioners.
B. 
Every person licensed under the provisions of § 279-1 as a hawker or peddler of fruits and vegetables or fish shall record his name and residence in like manner with such Board.
No person hawking, peddling or carrying or exposing for sale any of the articles enumerated in MGL c. 101, § 17, or in any acts in amendment thereof or in addition thereto, shall ring or cause to be rung any bell, or use or cause to be used any horn or other instrument, or utter any boisterous outcry or cry his wares in any street in the City to give notice of his business, or call attention for the purpose of making sale of any article, nor carry or convey such articles in any manner that will tend to injure or disturb the public health or comfort nor carry or convey such articles otherwise than in vehicles and receptacles which are neat and clean and do not leak.
A. 
Every hawker and peddler licensed by the Board of Police Commissioners shall be assigned a number and shall be provided by the Board with a badge which shall be conspicuously worn by the licensee, and every other such hawker and peddler as described in § 279-2 shall provide himself with a badge of such type and design as may be approved by such Board, which he shall wear in like manner.
B. 
Whoever neglects to wear such badge, or wears such badge without authority, shall be punished by the penalty provided in § 1-25.
Every vehicle or other receptacle used by a licensee as a conveyance for articles offered or exposed for sale by him shall have attached thereto on each side a number plate, to be furnished by the Board of Police Commissioners with his license, bearing the number and date of expiration of such license.
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No person shall be registered or assigned a badge or number under the provisions of § 279-2 or § 279-4 until he presents a certificate from the Sealer of Weights and Measures stating that all weighing and measuring devices intended to be used by such person have been duly inspected and sealed as required by law.
B. 
The use or possession by such person with intent to use of any false or unsealed weighing or measuring device shall be sufficient cause for the revocation of his license or the cancellation of his registration.
Any licensee who fails, neglects or refuses to exhibit his license when the same is demanded of him by a commissioner or inspector or Sealer or Deputy Sealer of Weights and Measures or police officer shall be subject to the same penalty as if he had no license.
Any license granted under this article or any ordinance amendatory or additional thereto may be revoked by the Board of Police Commissioners.