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ARTICLE 18 - Board of Selectmen - By-law Amendment: Valuable Second Hand Items To see if the Town will vote to amend the Town Code by: 1. Adding a new Chapter 163, Valuable Second Hand Items, to read as follows: Chapter 163. Valuable Second Hand Items §163-1. Dealers in Gold, Silver and Other Valuable Secondhand Items License Required. No person who makes a business of purchasing, or purchasing and selling, or who keeps a place of business in the Town of Littleton for purchasing, or purchasing and selling, either gold or silver, coins, stamps, other precious metals, jewelry, and electronics shall engage in such business or open such place of business for the said purposes unless duly licensed by the Board of Selectmen. This by-law shall not pertain to businesses within Littleton that take items in on consignment or that are licensed as Antique Dealers. §163-2. Application for License; Term of License; Fee. Each application for a license shall set forth the name of the party to be licensed, the nature of the business and the building or place in which it is to be carried on. Any license granted under this Article shall continue in force until the first day of January next ensuing unless sooner revoked by the Board of Selectmen. Each license shall specify the kind and character of the business to be carried on and the fee for such license shall be determined by the Board of Selectmen. §163-3. Record of Purchases. A. Every dealer or keeper of a shop shall record, at the time of purchase, the name, age, and residence, giving a street and number, of the person from whom the purchase was made. Such name, age and residence shall be obtained by the production of a valid photo identification issued by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, passport or out of state driver’s license containing a photo of the seller. Such record shall consist of a digital photograph taken of such identification, alongside the item/s being purchased, so as to match the seller with the item/s. Said photograph to be of high enough resolution as to make possible the positive identification of the article in question. At the time of purchase the day, date and hour of the purchase shall also be recorded, either through the device producing the photograph or in writing by the shop clerk. No entry on such record shall be changed, erased, obliterated or defaced. Such record shall be maintained on a form approved by the Chief of Police and shall have the ability to be reproduced. Said record of purchase shall be delivered to the Criminal Investigations Division (CID) at the Littleton Police Department, or through agreed upon electronic means, on a weekly schedule, to be determined by the CID. Said record shall be kept in some suitable place by the owner or dealer, on the premises of the licensed business, and shall be available for inspection by any person authorized by the Board of Selectmen. B. For the purposes of this By-Law the term “purchase” shall refer to a retail transaction between the shop owner and a private citizen. It shall not include purchases made off site, such as at an estate sale, or trade show. It shall also not pertain to dealer to dealer transactions on or off site. §163-4. Articles Purchased To Be Kept For 21 Days Before Resale Or Removal From Littleton. A. No such item purchased or received by any dealer or keeper of a shop shall be removed from the town or sold or otherwise disposed of, nor its identity changed, for at least twenty-one (21) days from its date of purchase, unless permission in writing has been obtained from the Chief of Police, or his designee, who may request to observe and photograph such item. B. Exemptions to the Holding Period: (1) Coins that are purchased shall not be subject to the 21 day holding period, provided that that they are properly recorded in the following manner: a. Type coins shall be photographed alongside the picture identification of the seller, individually or in groups, so that the face of each coin is plainly visible; and b. For commodity coins purchased in quantity, a single representative coin for each denomination (i.e. nickels, dimes, quarters, etc.) shall be photographed alongside the picture identification of the seller, and the licensee shall further document with the photograph the total number of each denomination purchased and the years of issuance of each coin within a given denomination. §163-5. Purchase From Persons Under Eighteen Years Of Age Prohibited. No dealer or keeper of a shop shall directly or indirectly receive or buy any such items from any person under the age of eighteen (18) years. §163-6. Display of License. Each such dealer or keeper of a shop shall have conspicuously displayed his license at the place where he does business. §163-7. Revocation of License. Any violation of any provision of the license or any rule or regulation that may be adopted by the Board of Selectmen in accordance with this Article shall be sufficient cause and reason to revoke said license. Prior to any suspension or revocation, the Board of Selectmen shall hold a public hearing, giving written notice to the licensee. Such notice shall be mailed by certified mail, return receipt requested, or shall be delivered in hand by a constable authorized to provide such service. §163-8. Penalty for Violation Of Article. Violations of any provision of this Article may be addressed by way of criminal complaint or through the procedure for noncriminal disposition provided in section 21D of Chapter 40 of the General Laws. In the event of such noncriminal disposition, a noncriminal penalty shall be assessed a penalty of three hundred ($300.00) dollars. Each offense will require a meeting with the Board of Selectmen to discuss corrective measures to be taken. §163-9. Examination and inspection of Records, Articles and Merchandise. The Chief of Police, or his designees, and any authorized representative of the Littleton Board of Selectmen, or its designees, shall at all times have the authority to inspect or examine all books kept by the keeper or dealer of a shop as well as to inspect and examine all articles and merchandise therein. §163-10. Hours of Operation. No dealer or keeper of a shop shall purchase or conduct business except between the hours of 7:00a.m. until 9:00 p.m; and 2. By amending §1-4 (Noncriminal disposition of certain violations) by adding new subsection §1-4.B(1)(r), to read as follows: (r) Valuable Second Hand Items Bylaw (Chapter 163) [1] Fine allowed: $300. [2] Enforcement agents: Police Officers. [3] Fine Schedule: $300 per violation. or to take any other action in relation thereto. Motion: Moved and seconded by the Board of Selectmen that the Town vote to approve Article 18 as printed in the warrant, subject to the following two modifications: 1. The last sentence in §163-3B shall be deleted and replaced with: "It shall also not pertain to dealer-to-dealer transactions on or off site."; 2. Insert, after the fourth sentence of Section 163-3.A a new sentence to read as follows: "In the case of all electronics bearing a serial number, an additional photograph recording the serial number shall be taken."; and 3. In §163.3 insert, after the word "defaced" ",and shall be kept in a secure location"; insert, after the second to last sentence, "After transfer that is acknowledged by the Littleton Police Department, the owner or dealer shall destroy said records."; strike "Board of Selectmen" and insert in place thereof "Chief of Police." Board of Selectmen supports Article 18. Declared passed by a majority vote. So voted. Departments