[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.
C.
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.
A.
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.
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.
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.
A.
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.
Nothing in this article shall be construed as conflicting with
any license issued under the authority of the commonwealth.
Any license granted under this article or any ordinance amendatory
or additional thereto may be revoked by the Board of Police Commissioners.
