New Britain herald., 1930-04-09
pE,DDLERS' LICENSE

peddlers.
 PEDDLERS' LICENSE
 Be it ordained by the Town Meet ing of the Town of Plainville: SECTION l - LICENSING OF PEDDLERS
 No person except those exempt by the statutes of the state shall sell or offer for sale within the Town. any groceries, provisions, fruits or any article ot food, or any goods, wares or merchandise, unless he shall have obtained a license 10 do SO from the Board of Selectmen. This section however. shall not apply to the oc- cupants of stores or shops within the Town.
 SECTION FEES
 The fee for such license shall be Ten Q0) Dollars for each year or portion thereof in all cases except for non-residents occupying a stand or location in the highway, for which the fee shall be twenty-five 1 dollars a year; and unless sooner revoked, all licenses shall expire on the S1st day of March succeeding the date of issue thereof; but no such license shall be issued by the Board of Selcctmen until the weights and measures of the applicant if any such are used by him in his busi- ness, have been approved and stamped by the sealer of weights and measures in Hartford or the State or County sealer of weights and measures and a certificate to that effect from said sealer of weights and measures has been ex- hibited with the Board of Selectmen.
 SECTION s-BADGE TO BE
 WORN; SIGN ON WAGON
 Each person so licensed shall on exercising his vocation, wear con- spicuously on his left breast suit able badge designed and furnished by the Board of Selectmen with the words 'Iicensed Nendor' and the number of his license and the year sucE license is in force. in numerals plainly inscribed thereon; and each person so licensed when using for the purpose for which he is licensed, a wagon. cart, or vehicle, shall have | plainly displayed on both sides of such wagon. cart or vehicle, sign designed and furnished by the Board Of Seloctmcn bearing the number of his license and the year in which such license is in force in numerals and the words Licensed Vendor" in Roman letters, each numeral or let ter to be at least three inches in height such badge and sign to be furnished by the Board of Select men, without expense to the per son so licensed.
 SECTION 4-RECORD OF LI-
 CENSES TO BE KEPT BY
 BOARD OF SELECTMEN Ii shall be the duty of the Board Of Selectmen to keep a record of all licenses granted under the provisions of this ordinance in a book pro- vided for the purpose, giving the number and date of each license, name, age and residence of person licensed, the amount of license fee paid and also the date of revocation of all licenses as hereinafter provid- cd. Said Board of Selectmen shall further keep 8 detailed account of all the receipts for such licenses and make return thereof quarterly to the Town Treasurer.
 SECTION 5-PENALTY RENO.
 CATION OF LICENSE Any person who shall engage in the business aforesaid without being duly licensed as herein provided, or who shall violate any of the pro- visions of these ordinances shall be fined not exceeding Ten I0) Dollars and the Town Court may in its dis cretion revoke the license of any person convicted of a violation Of any of the provisions of this ordinance.
 Any ordinance or parts Of ordi- nanccs conflicting with the above arc hereby repealed
 I. William IT. Wilson. Town Clerk of the Town of Plainville, Connecti- cut. do hereby certify that the fore going is a true copy of the pro- posed ordinance licensing peddlers passed at 8 Town Meeting duly warned and held on the seventeenth day of March, A. D. 1880.
 Attest:
 WILLIAM II. WILSON,
 Town Clerk.