[Amended 11-21-2022 STM by Art. 2]
The Select Board 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 or by
any person by them authorized thereto.