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MA Gen L ch 140 § 54a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 140 - Licenses|Section 54a - Automobile Graveyards

Section 54A. No license shall be granted under section fifty-four for an automobile graveyard, as defined in section one of chapter one hundred and forty B, unless such graveyard:  (a) is to be operated and maintained entirely within a building; or  (b) is to be operated and maintained exclusively for the purpose of salvaging the value as scrap of the material collected, as opposed to reselling parts to be used for the purpose for which they were originally manufactured, and is to be located in a built-up industrial area, or contiguous to a railroad siding, or on or contiguous to docking facilities; or  (c) is:  (1) more than one thousand feet from the nearest edge of any interstate or primary system, as defined in section one of chapter one hundred and forty B, and  (2) more than six hundred feet from any other state highway, and  (3) more than three hundred feet from any park, bathing beach, playground, school, church or cemetery and is not within ordinary view therefrom; or unless it is  (4) screened from view either by natural objects or well-constructed and properly maintained fences at least six feet high acceptable to said city or town and in accordance with the regulations as promulgated by the department of highways and as specified on said license.  No license shall be granted under the provisions of clause (4) of subsection (c) unless a copy of the application for such license has been forwarded by the applicant to the department of highways within three working days of the filing of said application.
MA Gen L ch 140 § 55 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 140 - Licenses|Section 55 - Junk Dealers; Penalty; Exceptions

Section 55. Whoever acts as a collector of, dealer in or keeper of a shop for the purchase, sale or barter of junk, old metals or second hand articles without a license, or in any other place or manner than that designated in his license or after notice to him that his license has been revoked, or violates any such rule, regulation or restriction, shall forfeit twenty dollars. The purchase, sale or barter of books, prints, coins or postage stamps shall not be deemed to be the purchase, sale or barter of second hand articles within the meaning of this and the preceding section.
MA Gen L ch 140 § 56 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 140 - Licenses|Section 56 - Junk Collector Defined

Section 56. A junk collector shall be deemed to be any person who by going from place to place collects by purchase or otherwise junk, old metals or second hand articles, whether or not by previous contract or arrangement.
MA Gen L ch 140 § 56a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 140 - Licenses|Section 56a - Shooting Galleries

Section 56A. The licensing authorities of any city or town may grant and may suspend or revoke at pleasure a license to conduct a shooting gallery upon such terms and conditions as they deem proper. Before the granting of a license hereunder, the applicant for the license shall file with the clerk of such city or town, a bond running to the city or town, with sureties approved by the treasurer thereof, for such penal sum, not exceeding five thousand dollars, as the licensing authority granting the license shall determine to be necessary, such bond to be conditioned upon the payment of any loss, damage or injury resulting to persons or property by reason of the conduct of such shooting gallery. The term ''shooting gallery'', as used in this section, shall mean a public resort equipped with appliances for target shooting. Licenses issued hereunder shall expire on May first following the date of issue. The fee for each original license as well as each renewal thereof shall be established in a town by town meeting action and in a city by city council action, and in a town with no town meeting by town council action, by adoption of appropriate by-laws and ordinances to set such fees, but in no event shall any such fee be greater than twenty dollars, and five dollars for each renewal thereof. Whoever conducts a shooting gallery unless licensed hereunder shall be punished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars.
MA Gen L ch 140 § 57 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 140 - Licenses|Section 57 - Sale of Second Hand Vehicles; Necessity of License; Exceptions; Auctions; Reports

Section 57. No person, except one whose principal business is the manufacture and sale of new motor vehicles but who incidentally acquires and sells second hand vehicles, or a person whose principal business is financing the purchase of or insuring motor vehicles but who incidentally acquires and sells second hand vehicles, shall engage in the business of buying, selling, exchanging or assembling second hand motor vehicles or parts thereof or allow any property under his control to be used as a place of sale or display of motor vehicles without securing a license as providing in section fifty-nine. This section shall apply to any person engaged in the business of conducting auctions for the sale of motor vehicles, and to any person engaged in the business of leasing or renting motor vehicles and who, as an incident to such business, sells or offers to sell any such lease or rental vehicle to the public. All sales of second-hand motor vehicles or parts thereof made by any person referred to in this section shall be reported weekly to the registrar of motor vehicles on such forms as may be prescribed by him.
MA Gen L ch 140 § 59a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 140 - Licenses|Section 59a - Motor Vehicle Junkyards; Requirements

Section 59A. No license shall be granted under section fifty-nine to a person within Class 3 as defined in section fifty-eight, for a motor vehicle junkyard, unless such junkyard  (a) is to be operated and maintained entirely within a building; or  (b) is to be operated and maintained exclusively for the purpose of salvaging the value as scrap of the material collected, as opposed to reselling parts to be used for the purpose for which they were originally manufactured, and is to be located in a built-up industrial or commercial area, or contiguous to a railroad siding, or on or contiguous to docking facilities; or  (c) is:  (1) more than one thousand feet from the nearest edge of any highway on the interstate or primary system, and  (2) more than six hundred feet from any other state highway, and  (3) more than three hundred feet from any park, bathing beach, playground, school, church or cemetery and is not within ordinary view therefrom; or unless it is  (4) screened from view by natural objects or well-constructed and properly maintained fences at least six feet high acceptable to said city or town and in accordance with regulations as promulgated by the department of highways and as specified on said license.  No license shall be granted under the provisions of clause (4) of subsection (c) unless a copy of the application for such license has been forwarded by the applicant to the department of highways within three working days of the filing of said application.
MA Gen L ch 140 § 60 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 140 - Licenses|Section 60 - Registrar's Rules and Regulations

Section 60. The registrar may from time to time make rules and regulations consistent with sections fifty-seven to sixty-nine, inclusive, relative to the purchase, sale or exchange of second hand motor vehicles or parts thereof.
MA Gen L ch 140 § 62 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 140 - Licenses|Section 62 - Record Book; Contents; Maintenance in an Electronic Data Management System

Section 62. Every licensee shall keep a book on the licensed premises, in such form as shall be approved by the registrar, in which, at the time of the purchase, sale, exchange, or receipt for the purpose of sale, of any second hand motor vehicle or parts thereof, shall be legibly written in the English language an account and description of such motor vehicle or parts, with the name and address of the seller, of the purchaser, and of the alleged owner or other person from whom such motor vehicle or parts were purchased or received or to whom they were delivered, as the case may be. Such description, in the case of motor vehicles, shall also include the identifying number or numbers required by the registrar, and shall also include a statement that the identifying number or numbers have been removed, defaced, altered, changed, destroyed, obliterated or mutilated if such is the fact.  Notwithstanding the previous paragraph, a licensee licensed under sections 58 and 59 shall be in compliance with this section if the information required by the previous paragraph is recorded and maintained in the licensee's electronic data management system in a form and format approved by the registrar; provided, however, that the registrar shall not require the licensee to engage in duplicate recording and maintenance of the information for each vehicle. The registrar may require a licensee to: (i) make readily available a printout of a specifically requested used vehicle record for a vehicle that the licensee has acquired, sold or traded; and (ii) maintain or make readily available a printout of the used vehicle record of each vehicle that: (A) is on the licensee's premises on the date of the inspection; and (B) the licensee has acquired, sold or traded during the previous 7 days.
MA Gen L ch 140 § 66 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 140 - Licenses|Section 66 - Entering Premises; Investigation; Examination of Vehicles; Parts, Books, Papers and Inventories

Section 66. The colonel of state police, the attorney general or such persons as he may designate, the police commissioner in Boston, the chief of police of any other city, the selectmen of a town or any police officer authorized by any of said officials may at any time enter upon any premises used by any person licensed under section fifty-nine for the purpose of carrying on his licensed business, ascertain how he conducts the same, and examine all second hand motor vehicles or parts thereof kept or stored in or upon the premises, and all books, papers and inventories relating thereto.
MA Gen L ch 140 § 67 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 140 - Licenses|Section 67 - Obstruction of Entrance or Examination by Officers; Refusal to Exhibit Items Demanded

Section 67. A licensee under section fifty-nine, or a clerk, agent or other person in charge of the licensed premises, who refuses to admit thereto an officer authorized to enter the same, or who fails to exhibit to him on demand all such motor vehicles, parts thereof, and books, papers and inventories relating thereto, and any person who wilfully hinders, obstructs or prevents such officer from entering the premises or from making the examination authorized in the preceding section, shall be punished by a fine of not more than two hundred dollars or by imprisonment for not more than one year, or both.
MA Gen L ch 140 § 67a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 140 - Licenses|Section 67a - Junked Motor Vehicles, Registration and Identification Plates; Removal and Forwarding to Registrar; Penalty

Section 67A. Any person licensed under section 54 or 59 shall comply with subsection (a) of section 20E of chapter 90D. The registrar may notify the licensing authority which issued the license to any person who has failed to comply with the provisions of this section of such failure and said authority shall suspend or revoke such license and shall not thereafter reinstate, renew or issue any such license to such person without the written consent of the registrar.
MA Gen L ch 140 § 68 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 140 - Licenses|Section 68 - Unlicensed Business

Section 68. Whoever, not being licensed, carries on the business for which a license is required by section fifty-seven, or is concerned therein, or, being licensed, carries on such business or is concerned therein in any other place or manner than that designated in his license, or after notice to him that his license has been revoked or suspended, shall be punished by a fine of not less than two hundred and not more than one thousand dollars or by imprisonment for not more than one year, or both.  In cases of two or more convictions, under the provisions of this section, the attorney general shall be notified for action under section six of chapter ninety-three A.
MA Gen L ch 140 § 69 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 140 - Licenses|Section 69 - Violation of Statutes, Rules or Regulations

Section 69. Whoever violates any provision of sections fifty-seven to sixty-eight, inclusive, or any rule or regulation made by the registrar under section sixty, unless a penalty other than the revocation of a license is prescribed therefor elsewhere in said sections, shall be punished by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars or by imprisonment for not more than one year, or both. A conviction of a violation of any of said sections, rules or regulations shall be reported forthwith by the court or magistrate to the registrar of motor vehicles who may, after a hearing, suspend or revoke any certificate of registration issued under section five of chapter ninety.
MA Gen L ch 140 § 70 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 140 - Licenses|Section 70 - Licensing of Pawnbrokers; Governing Statutes; Revocation

Section 70. The police commissioner of Boston, the license commission of Lowell, the aldermen of any other city, or the selectmen of any town, if ordinances or by-laws therefor have been adopted in such city or town, may license suitable persons to carry on the business of pawnbrokers in such city or town, subject to sections two hundred and two to two hundred and five, inclusive, and may revoke such licenses at pleasure.
MA Gen L ch 140 § 71 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 140 - Licenses|Section 71 - Retention of Articles; Sale; Disposition of Proceeds; Notice; Other Disposition; Personal Apparel

Section 71. Articles deposited in pawn with a licensed pawnbroker shall, unless redeemed, be retained by him on the premises occupied by him for his business for at least four months after the date of deposit, if not of a perishable nature; and, if perishable, for at least one month after said date. After the expiration of the applicable period of time, he may sell the articles by public auction, apply the proceeds thereof in satisfaction of the debt or demand and the expense of the notice and sale, and pay any surplus to the person entitled thereto on demand; provided, that no such sale of any article which is not of a perishable nature shall be made unless not less than ten days prior to the sale a written notice of the intended sale shall have been sent by registered mail to the person entitled to the payment of any surplus as aforesaid, addressed to his residence, as appearing in the records of such pawnbroker. No article taken in pawn by such pawnbroker exceeding twenty-five dollars in value shall be disposed of otherwise than as above provided, any agreement or contract between the parties thereto to the contrary notwithstanding. Articles of personal apparel shall not be deemed to be of a perishable nature within the meaning of this section.
MA Gen L ch 140 § 72 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 140 - Licenses|Section 72 - Interest Rate; Penalty

Section 72. The authorities which issue such licenses may fix the rate of interest which such pawnbrokers may receive on loans, and may fix different rates which may be received for different amounts of money lent; and no licensed pawnbroker shall charge or receive a greater rate of interest than that so fixed. Any such pawnbroker who violates any provision of this or the preceding section shall be punished by a fine of not more than fifty dollars.
MA Gen L ch 140 § 73 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 140 - Licenses|Section 73 - Entry Upon Premises; Investigation; Examination of Articles, Books and Inventories

Section 73. The chief of police of a city, the selectmen of a town, any officer authorized by either of them, or a state police officer may at any time enter upon any premises used by a licensed pawnbroker for the purposes of his business, ascertain how he conducts his business, and examine all articles taken in pawn or kept or stored in or upon said premises and all books and inventories relating thereto. Every such pawnbroker, his clerk, agent, servant or other person in charge of the premises shall exhibit to such officer on demand any or all of such articles, books and inventories.
MA Gen L ch 140 § 74 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 140 - Licenses|Section 74 - Obstruction of Entrance or Examination by Officer; Failure to Exhibit Items Demanded

Section 74. A licensed pawnbroker, clerk, agent or other person in charge of such premises who refuses to admit thereto an officer authorized to enter the same, or who fails to exhibit to him on demand all such articles, books and inventories, and any person who wilfully hinders, obstructs or prevents such officer from entering the premises or from making the examination authorized in the preceding section, shall be punished by a fine of not more than two hundred dollars or by imprisonment for not more than one year, or both.
MA Gen L ch 140 § 75 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 140 - Licenses|Section 75 - Unlicensed Business

Section 75. Whoever, not being licensed, carries on such business or is concerned therein within such town, or, being licensed, carries on such business or is concerned therein in any other place or manner than that designated in his license or after notice to him that his license has been revoked shall be punished by a fine of not more than fifty dollars.
MA Gen L ch 140 § 76 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 140 - Licenses|Section 76 - Loans on Personal Property; Purchases on Condition of Reselling; Exceptions

Section 76. No person shall, in any city or in any town of ten thousand or more inhabitants, engage in or carry on the business of loaning money upon mortgages, deposits or pledges of wearing apparel, jewelry, ornaments, household goods or other personal property, or of purchasing such property on condition of selling it back again at a stipulated price, unless he is licensed as a pawnbroker; but this and the six following sections shall apply only if such property is deposited with the lender, and shall not apply to loans made upon stock, bonds, notes or other written evidences of ownership of property or of indebtedness to the holder or owner of any such securities.
MA Gen L ch 140 § 77 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 140 - Licenses|Section 77 - Fee; Bond

Section 77. The fee for a license as a pawnbroker or renewal thereof shall be established in a town by town meeting action and in a city by city council action, and in a town with no town meeting by town council action, by adoption of appropriate by-laws and ordinances to set such fees, but in no event shall any such fee be greater than one hundred dollars. The licensee shall, at the time of receiving such license, file with the authorities who issue the license a bond to such city or town, in the sum of three hundred dollars, with two sureties approved by such authorities, and conditioned for the faithful performance of the duties and obligations pertaining to the business so licensed.
MA Gen L ch 140 § 78 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 140 - Licenses|Section 78 - Regulations; Interest Rate

Section 78. The authorities who grant licenses to pawnbrokers shall establish regulations, to the satisfaction of the commissioner of banks, relative to the business carried on and the rate of interest to be charged by them, and a pawnbroker shall not charge or receive upon any loan a greater rate of interest than that fixed by the licensing authorities.
MA Gen L ch 140 § 79 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 140 - Licenses|Section 79 - Record Book; Information Furnished to Authorities

Section 79. Every pawnbroker shall keep a book in which, at the time of making a loan, shall be legibly written in the English language an account and description, including all distinguishing marks and numbers, of the articles pawned, the amount of money loaned thereon, the time of pawning them, the rate of interest to be paid on such loan, and the name and residence of the person pawning such articles, and shall furnish a correct record of such transactions, containing all such information, once a week, or oftener if required, to the licensing authorities or to any person designated by them. Every pawnbroker shall also photograph any person pawning articles and keep the photographs with said books as part of his records.
MA Gen L ch 140 § 80 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 140 - Licenses|Section 80 - Memorandum for Pawner; Charge

Section 80. Every such pawnbroker shall, at the time of making such loan, deliver to the person who pawns any article a memorandum or note signed by him and containing the substance of the entry required by the preceding section. No charge shall be made or required by any pawnbroker for such entry, memorandum or note.
MA Gen L ch 140 § 81 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 140 - Licenses|Section 81 - Inspection of Books

Section 81. Said book shall at all reasonable times be open to the inspection of the mayor, of the members of the board of police, of the superintendent of police and deputy superintendents, of the chief inspector of police, of any officer of the state police or of any person authorized by them in writing for that purpose who exhibits such written authority to such pawnbroker.
MA Gen L ch 140 § 82 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XX - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 140 - Licenses|Section 82 - Penalty

Section 82. Whoever violates any provision of the six preceding sections shall be punished by a fine of not less than fifty nor more than three hundred dollars or by imprisonment for not more than two months, or both.