This chapter is enacted solely to raise revenue for municipal
purposes and is not intended for the purpose of regulation.
(Ord. 66 § 1, 1965)
For the purpose of this chapter, certain words and phrases are
defined, and certain provisions shall be construed as herein set out,
unless it shall be apparent from their context that a different meaning
is intended.
is the business of distributing, circulating, or delivering
of any paper, advertisement, broadside, handbill, circular, dodger,
card poster, sample, booklet, pamphlet, or other advertising medium
of similar nature.
is any vehicle containing amplifiers, phonographs, loud speakers,
microphones, broadcasting, radio or devices for public address and/or
carrying advertising upon the streets or public grounds of the City
of Plymouth.
is any machine or device operated by the deposit of a coin
which plays, renders or provides music, which performs any service,
or which provides any game or amusement.
means a place of business in the City of Plymouth regularly
kept open, with someone in charge thereof for the transaction of the
particular business engaged in during the hours customary to transact
such business.
is any person who sells and makes immediate delivery, or
offers for sale and immediate delivery, any goods, wares, merchandise
or thing, in the possession of the seller, at any place in the City
of Plymouth other than from a fixed place of business, but shall not
include salespeople or agents for wholesale houses or firms who sell
to retail dealers for resale, or sell to manufacturers for the manufacturing
purposes, or to bidders for public works or supplies.
means any peddler or solicitor as defined herein who peddles
or solicits anything which he or she has personally manufactured or
produced, and shall include, but not be limited to, any farmer, poultryman,
or horticulturist, members of his or her immediate family, or any
employee who is regularly engaged in assisting in the production of
the produce. This term shall not include persons who buy articles
or produce for resale as well as selling their own produce or articles.
means all domestic and foreign corporation, associations,
syndicates, joint stock corporations, partnerships of every kind,
clubs, Massachusetts business, or common law trusts, societies, and
individuals.
is any person who sells or takes orders, or offers to sell
or take orders for any goods, wares, merchandise, or thing, for future
delivery, or for services to be performed, at any place in the City
of Plymouth other than a fixed place of business, but shall not include
salesperson or agent for wholesale houses or firms who solicit orders
from retail dealers for resale, or solicit from manufacturers for
manufacturing purposes, or to bidders for public works or supplies.
is any machine or device operated by the deposit of a coin
which vends any goods, wares, merchandise or thing.
(Ord. 66 § 2, 1965)
