Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1917-04-25

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from the commissioner Of taxes an OH
cial number plate. or II the licensee be
peddler travelling on foot, an Official
badge The official number plates and
badges shall each be of uniform size and
design and shall contain distinguishing
number. The official number plate shall
be conspicaonsly displayed on the vehicle
operated By the licenSee and shall be 50
kept and displayed at all times. The OH
cial badge issued TO peddlers on foot
shall be worn III a conspicuous place
+ by the licensee while engaged III the
business covered BY the license.
Sec & A person who becomes a ped
/ der without a license in force, as. pro
vlded in this chapter, or who. beng
/ licensed 10 travel on foot conveys his
goods in another manner, shall be hned
Il not more than three hundred dollars nor
less than fifty dollars
/ Sec O. A peddler who refuses TO
/ show his license upon request shall be
| fined twenty dollars.
Sec 10 Chapter so of the Public
Statutes lchapter 40 G, ID Is hereby re-
ipealed
i Sec II. The commissioner OF taxes
may license in writing for a period of
two years, auctioneers TO sell real and
personal property in any town in the
state; and person so licensed shall pay
1 therefor the sum of ten dollars. Said
/ commissioner of taxes may revoke said
license when in his judgment the public
good requires.
| Sec. II. Application for an auctioneer's
license shall be made in writing to the
commissioner of taxes upon blanks pre-
pared by him and furnished for that
purpose, and shall contain a statement
Iof the name, place OF residence and adj
II - add
tional information as the commissioner
| of taxes NAV require The application
/ shall be accompanied by the prescribed
I fee of ten dollars Each license granted
/ shall express the amount paid therefor,
I shall be numbered and recorded by the
commissioner of taxes IN book kept
4 for that purpose No license to sell real
, and personal property at auction shall
I be granted by the officials of towns or
villages TO any person who has not re-
celved 4 license issued by the commits
sioner of taxes according to the pro-
visions of this act.
Sec. IS. A person not licensed as pro-
vided by this act who sells or offers for
sale at auction real or personal prop
erty shall be fined not more than one
hundred dollars nor less than ten dollars;
but this section shall not apply to auc-
ton sales made by person required by
law so TO sell real or personal prop
/ erty, or by licensed peddlers in the open
streets or on public commons or fair
grounds
Sec. IA No. 2oI of the acts of 1915,
section I6z of No I of the acts Of 1915,
chapter 232 of the Public Statutes (chap-
/ ter 272 @. ID are hereby repealed.
Sec. Is. The words ''itinerant vendor"
as used in this act shall be construed to
include both principals and agents who
engage in temporary or transient bust
ness in this state, either In one locality
or in travelling from place to place, sell
i ing goods, wares or merchandise, and
who, for the purpose of carrying on
such business. hire. lease or occupy a
building or structure for the exhibition
and sale of such goods, wares or mer-
chandise
Sec. 10 The provisions of sections
fifteen to thirty both inclusive shall not
| apply TO sales made to dealers by COM
mercial travellers or selling agents in the
usual course of business, nor to bona
fide sales of goods, wares or merchandise
/ b. sample for future delivery nor to
hawkers on the streets nor to peddlers
| from vehicles.
Sec. II. An itInerant vendor who sells
or exposes for sale. at public or private
sale, goods, wares or merchandise, with
out state and local licenses issued as
provided in this chapter, shall be i'm
prisoned nor more than sixty days or
fined not more than fifty dollars. or both.
Sec. Is. A person. whether principal
or agent. who advertises such sales by
circular, hand bill, newspaper or in any
other manner, before such licenses are
issued TO the vendor, shall be punished
as provided in the preceding section.
Sec. 70. Justices shall have concur
| rent jurisdiction with county, municipal
and city courts of offenses under this
chapter, 10 the extent of filming the re-
/ spondent twenty dollars.
| Sec. 20. An itinerant vendor shall.
before commencing business, take out
/ state license and local license as pro-
/ vided in this chapter: but nothing in this
chapter shall affect the right OF mu-
/ nicipal corporation TO pass such ordi-
nances relative TO itinerant vendors as
may be permissible under the general
/ law or It's charter.
| Sec. II. An itinerant vendor desiring
to do business in this state shall deposit
with the state treasurer the sum OF FIVE
| hundred dollars, and after such deposit,
upon application 10 the commissioner OF
taxes made upon blanks furnished and
/ in a form by him prescribed. and the
payment OF state license fee of twenty
| five dollars, said commissioner OF taxes
i shall issue 10 him an itinerant vendors
license, setting forth a copy OF the ven
doris application and authorizing him to
/ do business in this state in conformity
with the provisions Of this chapter for
the term OF one year from the date there
Iof. Such license shall not be transfer
able, nor give authority TO more than
one person to sell goods as an itinerant
vendor. either By agent or clerk, or in
/ any other way than in his own proper
iperson; but such licensee may have the
assistance OF one or more persons IN
conducting his business, who shall have
authority to aid him, but not to act for
or without him.
Sec. n All applications for licenses
snail be sworn 70. shall disclose the