[HISTORY: Adopted by the Town Meeting of
the Town of Walpole as Article XVI of the 1973 General Bylaws, as
updated through 2002. Subsequent amendments noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Secondhand vehicle dealers — See Ch. 459.
[Amended 5-11-2005 SATM, Art. 57; 5-3-2006
SATM, Art. 40; 10-21-2019 FATM, Art. 20]
The Select Board may, pursuant to the General
Laws of the Commonwealth and the local Zoning Bylaws, license suitable
persons to be dealers in and keepers of shops for the purchase, sale
and barter of junk, old metals, second-hand articles, precious metals
and precious stones in the Town. They may license suitable persons
as junk collectors to collect, by purchase or otherwise, junk, old
metals, second-hand articles, precious metals and precious stones
from place to place in the Town; and they may provide that such collectors
shall display badges on their persons or their vehicles or upon both,
when engaging in collecting, transporting or dealing in junk, old
metals or second-hand articles, precious metals and precious stones,
and may prescribe the design thereof. They may also provide that such
shops and all articles of merchandise thereof and any place, vehicle
or receptacle used for the collection or keeping of the articles aforesaid,
may be examined at all times by the Chief of Police or by any police
officer so authorized or the Building Inspector. They may also require
screening of such merchandise which is kept outside the structures
on the premises for more than a twelve-hour period to be screened
from view of abutting public or private ways by screening consisting
of natural vegetation (trees or shrubs) or fencing, the adequacy and
design of which shall be subject to review by the Planning Board.
[Amended 10-21-2019 FATM, Art. 20]
Every keeper of a shop for the purchase, sale
or barter of junk, old metal or second-hand articles, precious metals
and precious stones, within the limits of the Town shall keep a book
in which shall be written at the time of every purchase or any such
article, a description thereof, 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
or any other person by them authorized to make such inspection, and
every keeper of such shop shall put in a suitable and conspicuous
place on 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 Chief of Police or by
any police officer by him authorized or by the Building Inspector
to make such inspection; 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 or having reason to believe him to be such; and no articles
purchased or received by such shopkeeper shall be sold until at least
14 days from the date of its purchase or receipt has elapsed. Such
shop shall be closed between the hours of 9:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m.
and no keeper thereof and no junk collector shall purchase any of
the articles aforesaid during such hours.
