[HISTORY: Adopted by the Town Meeting of
the Town of Southborough as Art. XI, Sec. 1 of the 1983 Code. Amendments
noted where applicable.]
[Amended 11-1-2021 STM
by Art. 2]
All persons or parties granted licenses by the
Select Board in accordance with MGL c. 140, §§ 54 and
202, regarding dealers in junk, old metals and secondhand articles,
junk collectors and pawnbrokers, shall, in addition to the restrictions
and requirements of said statute, be subject to the additional following
regulations.
The fee for said license shall be $50 per annum.
Every licensee shall keep a permanent bound
book (pages not removable) in which shall be written, at the time
of receipt, the following information:
A.
Day and hour of receipt of goods or articles.
B.
Specific physical description of goods or articles,
including color, weight, size, markings, etc.
C.
Name, address, age and driver's license number of
person who presents goods or articles. (In case of no license, then
suitable pictured identification will be required.)
No licensee shall, directly or indirectly, receive
any goods or articles from a minor, and the responsibility for such
determination of the person's age shall be on the licensee.
Every licensee shall retain on the licensed
premises all goods and articles received for a specific period of
time in accordance with the following schedule:
Each license shall be effective at only one
address, and said license shall be conspicuously displayed at that
address.
All books, records, goods and articles received,
held or maintained by every licensee shall be available for inspection
at all times (and without prior notice) by the Board or designees.
Every new licensee, except those who have held
a similar license from the Town for the immediate previous twelve-month
period, shall furnish to the Board a bond in such sum as the Board
may require, executed by the licensee and by a surety company authorized
to do business within the commonwealth. Said bond shall be payable
to the Town, for the benefit of any person aggrieved, and shall be
conditioned upon the faithful observation of the licensee of all applicable
statutes, rules and regulations. Any person so aggrieved may bring
suit on the Board in his own name; provided, however, that the aggregate
liability of the surety to all such persons shall in no event exceed
the sum of such bond.
These rules and regulations shall be incorporated
into every license granted hereunder.
The Board may revoke the license of any dealer
who violates or fails to uphold these regulations.
