This article shall not apply to any person selling
religious books and publications in behalf of bible, tract or other
religious or moral societies for the purpose of promoting religious
or moral improvement, and which are sold for that purpose and not
for pecuniary profit; nor to any butcher retailing meats, or fisherman
selling fish or shellfish, from carts or otherwise; nor to any person
peddling or selling any towel cloth, knit stockings, gloves, mitts
or other articles of household manufacture or articles manufactured
with his own hands; nor to any milkman, nor to any farmer selling
the produce of his farm or selling both the produce of his farm and
the produce of other farms, nor to any person who shall have been
licensed under G.L. 1956, §§ 5-11-1 through 5-11-3.
No person, except those persons specified in §
268-1, shall sell or offer for sale as a hawker or peddler in the Town articles or substances as set forth in this article without first having obtained a license hereunder.
[Amended 10-17-1989]
For a license issued under this article, the
person receiving the same shall pay to the Town Clerk, for the use
of the Town, a fee of $100 per annum.
Any person who shall neglect or refuse within
a reasonable time after demand by the Chief of Police, Town Sergeant
or other police officer of the Town to exhibit to him his license
and badge shall be deemed for the purpose of this article to be unlicensed
and to have violated the provisions of this article.