[Ord. No. 670,
§ 1, 12-13-1990]
The fees for licenses granted under the provisions of Chapter
140, Sections 58 and 59 of the Massachusetts General Laws relating
to the sale, repair, and repossession of motor vehicles shall be as
follows: Class 1, $100; Class 2, $50; Class 3, $50; Class 4, $100;
Class 5, $100.
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Editor's Note: Ord. No. 670, § 1, approved December
13, 1990, repealed former § 11-6 in its entirety. Former
§ 11-6 was concerned with license fees for the sale of secondhand
motor vehicles, and derived from the Revised Ordinances of 1947, ch.
37, § 1.
[Ord. No. 15, § 1]
The fee to be charged for each "Lodginghouse" license, so-called,
issued under the provisions of General Laws, chapter 140, section
23 is hereby established as the sum of $2.
[Ord. No. 38, § 1]
All licenses to keepers of bowling alleys shall expire on the
thirtieth-day of April following the date of issue. The fees to be
charged for such licenses shall be the following:
[Ord. No. 38, § 1]
The fee to be charged for licenses to keepers of billiard saloons,
billiard tables, poolrooms, or pool tables shall be $5 per annum for
each such table.
[Ord. No. 749,
§ 1, 5-24-1994; Ord. No. 1151, § I, 9-29-2015]
The fee to be charged for licenses to tellers of fortunes shall
be $50 per annum. An applicant for a fortuneteller's license must
have resided in the City of Pittsfield continuously for 12 months
immediately preceding the date of application, and no such license
shall be transferred or assigned. Telling fortunes for money without
a license is punishable by a fine of $100 per each offense. Each day
in which any violation exists shall be deemed to constitute a separate
offense. The provisions of this section shall be enforced by the building
inspector, fire department, public services department, and the police
department.
[Ord. No. 478; Ord. No. 511]
The fee for a license to hold entertainment on Sundays in accordance
with General Laws, chapter 136, section 4, as amended, shall be $2
for each Sunday for which such license is issued or $50 per annum;
except, that annual license for coin-controlled phonographs, commonly
known as juke boxes, shall be $10 per annum.
[Ord. No. 600, § 1; Ord. No. 524, § 1, 10-28-1985; Ord. No. 720, § 1, 9-23-1992]
The licensing board is delegated the power to issue the following
licenses and permits: auctioneer; bowling alleys; intelligence (employment)
office; transient vendors; collectors of junk, secondhand articles,
etc.; dealers in junk, secondhand articles, etc.; passenger boats;
parking lots; pool tables; lunch wagons (popcorn stands); trucking
(conveyance of commodities for hire); and fortune tellers.
[Ord. No. 601, § 1]
Whenever there is filed with the city clerk an application or
petition for a license under section 13 of chapter 148 of the General
Laws, as amended, or for a permit under section 22 of chapter 166
of the General Laws, as amended, upon which the city council is required
to hold a public hearing, the city clerk shall set the next convenient
regular meeting of the city council as the time for such hearing and
shall give or cause to be given notice of such hearing as required
by ordinance or law.
[Ord. No. 146,
§ 1, 4-28-1971]
The director of veterans' service may, under such conditions
as he may deem proper, grant to any organization engaged exclusively
in charitable work, or to a post of any incorporated organization
of veterans who served in the military or naval service of the United
States, in time of war or insurrection, a special license authorizing
it, upon a particular day and for a charitable purpose named in such
license, to sell, through its accredited agents in the streets and
other public places within the City of Pittsfield, or in any designated
part thereof, flags, badges, medals, buttons, flowers, souvenirs and
similar small articles; provided, that no person under 16 years of
age shall be accredited as such agents, that each agent shall wear
in plain sight while engaged in selling such articles a badge, provided
by such organization or post and approved by the director of veterans'
service, issuing the license, bearing upon it the name of such organization
or post and the date on which the license is to be exercised, and
that no such agent shall be authorized to make or attempt to make
such sales in front of any private premises against the objection
of the owner or occupant thereof. The exercise of the licenses hereby
provided for shall be subject to the provisions of all statutes, ordinances,
bylaws, rules and regulations not inconsistent herewith.
[Ord. No. 174,
§ 1, 11-29-1972]
It shall be unlawful for any person, either as a principal,
or as agent for any other person to store, offer for sale or sell
in any building, structure or open area, bulk saline based materials
without first having applied for and received from the city council
a license to do so.
[Ord. No. 174,
§ 1, 11-29-1972; Ord. No. 1151, §§ I—III, 9-29-2015; Ord. No. 1250, § I, 6-28-2022]
Any person desiring to procure a license required by section 11-10.4, shall apply therefor in writing over his signature to the City Council, the Community Development Board, Health Department and Public Utilities Department of the City of Pittsfield, on a form provided for that purpose, and such application shall state:
(1)
The name and address of the applicant.
(2)
The name and address of the person or persons by whom he is employed,
or for whom he is acting, if any.
(3)
The location and description of the building, structure or open area
where the bulk saline based materials are to be stored or sold.
(4)
A complete description of the type of saline based materials together
with the amount and square footage area to be used for the storage
and sale of same.
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Such application shall be delivered by the applicant to the
Community Development Board, Health Department and Public Utilities
department for their review and recommendations prior to submission
to the City Council for a hearing by the City Council.
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In the event that the City Council grants a license under section 11-10.4, said license shall be subject to all ordinances, laws of the Commonwealth, rules and regulations of the State Department of Natural Resources and any other state or federal departments or agencies whose rules and regulations may be applicable thereto.
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[Ord. No. 174,
§ 1, 11-29-1972]
Any license issued under section 11-10.4 shall expire one year from the date of its issuance by the city council unless sooner revoked by the city council.
Any license issued by the city council under section 11-10.4 may be revoked by the city council for violation of any ordinance, law, rules or regulations of any state or federal department or agency applicable thereto, or upon a majority vote of the city council to revoke said license.
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Editor's Note: Formerly, Div. 1 contained provisions designated
as § 11-10.7, violations, as derived from Ord. No. 174,
§ 1, approved 11-29-1972. Such section was deleted by Ord.
No. 674, § 7, approved 5-29-1991.
[Ord. No. 197,
§ 1, 9-13-1973; Ord. No. 1151, §§ IV—V, 9-29-2015]
Applications for licenses under General Laws, chapter 148, section
13, shall be made in writing on a form provided therefor by the city
clerk. Each application shall be accompanied by a plot plan, in duplicate,
drawn to scale, showing the boundaries of the land to be licensed,
all buildings or other structures situated or to be situated thereon
and the use of which requires the land to be licensed, the dimensions
of such buildings, and the distances between such buildings and the
boundary lines of the land to be licensed. The application and plans
shall be submitted first to the Fire Chief of the fire department
for his endorsement thereon of a certificate of approval or disapproval,
and thereafter the application and one plan shall be filed by the
applicant in the office of the city clerk. The Fire Chief shall keep
one copy of the plan for the records of the fire department.
(a)
Conditions and restrictions. Licenses granted by the city council
under General Laws, chapter 148, section 13 shall include and be subject
to the following conditions and restrictions:
(1)
No license shall be issued to an applicant that holds a license
for a service station that has not conducted a normal business of
a service station for a period of one year. A service station for
the purpose of this section shall include automobile filling stations
and is defined as an area of land including structures thereon which
is used and designated to be used to supply motor vehicles with gasoline,
oil, grease and customary automotive accessories and may include facilities
to include lubrication, washing, polishing and minor repairs.
(2)
All outdoor displays of products advertised and sold on the
premises shall be located within a distance of not more than 15 feet
from the principal structure of the service station.
(3)
Wrecked or damaged vehicles shall be kept in an area which is
adequately screened or enclosed so that said vehicles are not visible
to the public.
(4)
In the event a service station shall offer for rent or sale
any trailers, rental vehicles, campers, boats or any other items which
are to be displayed upon the property, a permit for the sale or rental
of same shall be secured from the city council at the time of application
for said permit and a plot plan shall be submitted designating the
types of equipment and location thereof.
(5)
An authorized employee, an officer of the firm, or the owner
of the service station shall make daily inspections of the service
station and shall be responsible for the prompt removal or repair
of any hazardous conditions, including proper maintenance of equipment
and safety devices and immediate removal of combustible materials.
(6)
In addition to penalties provided by law, a violation of a restriction
or condition herein set forth may be grounds for suspension or revocation
of the license herein upon adequate notice and a hearing by the city
council.
(7)
The city council may include any further restrictions and conditions
that it deems necessary.
[R. O. 1949, ch. 37, §§ 2,5; Ord. No. 440, § 1, 1-27-1983]
The fees to be charged for licenses under the provisions of
Section 13 of Chapter 148 of the General Laws are hereby established
as follows:
(a)
Keeping of automobiles. For licenses for keeping in a designated
building or structure not more than five automobiles, $5; more than
five but not more than 25 automobiles, $10; more than 25 but not more
than 50 automobiles, $15; more than 50 but not more than 75 automobiles,
$20; and more than 75 automobiles, $25.
(b)
Crude petroleum and liquid explosives or inflammables—Storage.
For licenses for keeping, storage, manufacture or sale in a designated
building or structure not more than 1,000 gallons of crude petroleum
or any of its products, or of any explosives or inflammables of a
liquid or fluid nature subject to the rules and regulations of the
department of public safety of the commonwealth under General Laws
(Ter. Ed.), Chapter 148, Section 9, as most recently amended, $20;
more than 1,000 gallons, but not more than 2,000 gallons, $25; more
than 2,000 gallons, but not more than 3,000 gallons, $35; more than
3,000 gallons, but not more than 10,000 gallons, $50; more than 10,000
gallons but not more than 50,000 gallons, $100; more than 50,000 gallons,
but not more than 100,000 gallons, and $150; more than 100,000 gallons,
but not more than 150,000 gallons, $200; more than 150,000 gallons,
but not more than 200,000 gallons, $250; and more than 200,000 gallons,
$300.
(c)
Same—Storage and sale. For licenses for keeping, storing, manufacturing or selling in a designated building or structure of all explosives or inflammables not referred to or covered by subsection (a) or (b), subject to the rules or regulations of the department of public safety of the commonwealth under General Laws (Ter. Ed.) Chapter 148, Section 9, the sum of $10.
(d)
Fee for registration of certificate. The fees to be charged for a registration of a certificate under the provisions of Section 13, Chapter 148 of the General Laws (Ter. Ed.), as most recently amended, shall be one-half of the amount of the fee established in subsections (a), (b) and (c) hereof, for a license for like use of the designated building or structure.
(e)
Certain garages exempt from registration. Garages of less than four-car
capacity shall be exempt from registration.
[R. O. 1947, Ch. 37, § 3]
The fees to be charged for a registration of a certificate under the provisions of MGL c. 148, § 13, shall be 1/2 of the amount of the fee established in § 11-12 for a license for like use of the designated building or structure.
[Ord. No. 123, § 1]
For the purpose of computing any fees due under the two preceding
sections, all licenses for the storage of explosives or inflammable
substances on the same premises shall be considered a single license,
although issued on different dates.
[R. O. 1947, Ch. 37, § 4; Ord.
No. 1151, § VI, 9-29-2015]
