[HISTORY: Adopted by the Town Meeting of the Town of Mansfield 5-19-2015 ATM by Art. 21. Amendments noted where applicable.]
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.
A.
Every keeper
of a shop for the purchase, sale, or barter of junk, old metals, or
secondhand articles within the limits of the Town shall keep a book
in which shall be written at the time of every purchase of any such
article a description thereof, the name, age, and residence 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 Select
Board members or Town Manager or any person by them authorized to
make such inspection.
B.
Every keeper
of such shop shall put in a suitable and conspicuous place on their
shop a sign having their name and occupation legibly inscribed thereon
in large letters.
C.
Such shop
and all articles of merchandise therein may at all times be examined
by the Select Board members or Town Manager or by any person by them
authorized to make such examination.
D.
No keeper
of such shop and no junk collector shall, directly or indirectly,
either purchase or receive, by way of barter or exchange, any of the
articles aforesaid of a minor or apprentice, knowing or having reason
to believe them to be such.
E.
No article
purchased or received by such shopkeeper shall be sold until at least
one week from the date of its purchase or receipt has elapsed.
F.
Such shop
shall close between the hours of 6:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m. and no keeper
thereof and no junk collector shall purchase any of the articles aforesaid
during such hours.
