[HISTORY: Adopted by the Town Meeting of the Town of Norfolk 3-16-1936 (Art. VIII of the General Bylaws). Amendments noted where applicable.]
[Amended 5-10-2022 ATM by Art. 18]
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 this Town. It 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 said Town, and it may also 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 describe the design thereof. It may also provide that such shops and all articles of merchandise therein, and any place, vehicle, or receptacle used for the collecting or keeping of the articles aforesaid, may be examined at all times by the Select Board or an authorized representative of the Select Board.
A. 
Every keeper of a shop for the purchase, sale or barter of junk, old metals or secondhand articles within its limits shall keep a book in which shall be written, at the time of every purchase of any such article, a description thereof and 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 and of any persons by it respectively authorized to make such inspection.
[Amended 5-10-2022 ATM by Art. 18]
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 or by any one by them respectively authorized to make such examination.
D. 
No keeper of such shop and 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 a week from the date of its purchase or receipt has elapsed.
F. 
The Select Board may also prescribe the hours in which such shops shall be closed, and that no keeper thereof and no junk collector shall purchase any of the articles aforesaid during such hours.