[HISTORY: Adopted by the Town of Winchester effective 4-29-1940 (§ 27 of the prior compilation).
Amendments noted where applicable.]
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
Any person who shall engage in business as a dealer and trader
in junk, old metals, scrap, rags, wastepaper or other secondhand articles
that are no longer serviceable for their original manufactured purpose.
No person shall engage in the business of junk dealer without
first having obtained a license so to do from the Chief of Police.
The fee for such a license shall be $10 per year for each team or
vehicle used in connection with such business. The Chief of Police
shall have authority to issue such license upon application therefor
and upon payment of the license fee. Each license shall be for the
term of one year from the date of issue.
Any person who shall engage in the business of junk dealer without
being duly licensed as herein provided shall be fined not more than
$100, and the Judge of the Town Court of Winchester may, in his discretion,
revoke the license of any person convicted of a violation of any provision
of the statutes of the State of Connecticut relating to junk dealers.
