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ARTICLE 7
LICENSES
SECTION 1. The Selectmen may license suitable persons to be dealers in and keepers of shops for the purchase, sale, or barter of junk, old metals or second-hand articles in the town.
They may license suitable persons as junk collectors, to collect by purchases or otherwise, junk, old metals, and second-hand 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 engaging in collection, transporting, or dealing in junk, old metals, or second-hand 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 Selectmen, or by any person by them authorized thereto.
SECTION 2. Every keeper of a shop for the purchase, sale or barter of junk, old metals, or second-hand articles, within the limits of the town, shall keep a book, in which shall be written, at the time of every purchase of any such article, a description thereof, the name, age, and residence of the person from, and the day and hour when such purchase was made; such book shall at all times be open to the inspection of the Selectmen or any person by them authorized to make such inspection. And every keeper of such shop shall put in a suitable and conspicuous place in his shop a sign having his name and occupation legibly inscribed thereon in large letters, and such shop and all articles of merchandise therein may be at all times examined by the Selectmen, or by any person by them authorized to make such
examination. And no keeper of such shop and no 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 and believing him to be such; and no article purchased or received by such shopkeeper shall be sold until at least thirty days from the date of the purchase or receipt has elapsed. Such shop shall be closed between the hours of six o'clock p.m. and seven a.m., and no keeper thereof and no junk collector shall purchase any of the articles aforesaid during such hours.
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