The Select Board members may license suitable persons to be
dealers in and 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 collect, 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, transporting, or dealing in junk, old
metals, or secondhand articles; and may prescribe the design thereof.
They may also provide that such shops and all articles of merchandise
therein and any place, vehicle, or receptacle used for the collection
or keeping of the articles aforesaid may be examined at all times
by the Select Board members or Town Manager or by any person by them
authorized thereto.