Town of Bellingham, MA Ice Cream Truck Vendors

Title

Adopted

Subject

Affects

11-16-2022 ATM, Art. 17 pdf

2022-11-16

General Provisions Amendment; Alcoholic Beverages Amendment; Boards, Committees and Commissions Amendment; Building Construction Amendment; Buildings, Numbering of Amendment; Contracts and Bidding Amendment; Dogs Amendment; Drugs Amendment; Financial Affairs Amendment; Firearms Amendment; Graves and Gravestones Amendment; Ice Cream Truck Vendors Amendment; Insurance Amendment; Junk Dealers Amendment; Legal Affairs Amendment; Littering Amendment; Officers and Employees Amendment; Peddling and Hawking Amendment; Property Maintenance Amendment; Records and Reports Amendment; Scenic Roads Amendment; Selectmen, Board of Amendment; Sewers Amendment; Signs Amendment; Solid Waste Amendment; Streets and Sidewalks Amendment; Taxicabs Amendment; Town Meetings Amendment; Town Property Amendment; Vehicles and Traffic Amendment; Vending Machines Amendment; Water Amendment; Wetlands Protection Amendment; Bulk Storage Amendment

Ch 1, Ch 9, Ch 25, Ch 30, Ch 35, Ch 49, Ch 55, Ch 60, Ch 71, Ch 76, Ch 87, Ch 92, Ch 96, Ch 101, Ch 107, Ch 113, Ch 126, Ch 135, Ch 140, Ch 146, Ch 154, Ch 159, Ch 165, Ch 169, Ch 178, Ch 191, Ch 198, Ch 205, Ch 210, Ch 216, Ch 222, Ch 228, Ch 235, Ch 236

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Editor's Note: This bylaw was adopted as Ch. 103, but was renumbered so as to conform to the format of the Town Code.

This bylaw implements the requirements of M.G.L. ch. 270, § 25 and the regulations promulgated thereunder, as may be amended, relative to the permitting of ice cream trucks within the Town of Bellingham.

ICE CREAM

Any frozen dairy or frozen water-based food product.

ICE CREAM TRUCK

Any motor vehicle used for selling, displaying or offering to sell ice cream.

ICE CREAM TRUCK VENDING

The selling, displaying or offering to sell ice cream or any other prepackaged food product from an ice cream truck.

PERMITTING AUTHORITY

The Bellingham Chief of Police or a qualified person authorized by him.

No person shall engage in ice cream truck vending in the Town of Bellingham unless he shall have been issued a valid permit to do so by the Permitting Authority. Such permit shall be conspicuously displayed and clearly visible on the windshield of any ice cream truck operated or from which ice cream or any other prepackaged food product is sold. Whoever violates this section shall be assessed a fine of $500. Each day that such person is in operation in violation of this section may be considered a separate violation.

Permits issued hereunder shall conform to regulations, rules, forms and policies of the Department of Public Safety.