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Footnotes:
--- (1) --- Cross reference— Mobile homes and mobile home parks and camping areas, Ch. 9; nuisances, Ch. 10; noise regulations, § 10-51 et seq.; secondhand goods, Ch. 15; streets, sidewalks and other public places, Ch. 17; depositing of merchandise in streets prohibited, § 17-38; traffic and motor vehicles, Ch. 20; zoning, App. A.
State Law reference— Hawkers and peddlers, G.L. 1956, § 5-11-18; itinerant vendors, G.L. 1956, § 5-15-1 et seq.; charitable solicitation, G.L. 1956, §§ 5-53-1—5-53-14.
Sec. 12-1. - License required.#
Except as hereinafter provided, all hawkers and peddlers desiring to sell or offer for sale as hawkers and peddlers, any article or substances within the town, and all persons desiring to sell or offer for sale any goods, wares, merchandise, ice cream, fruits, or vegetables, or other articles or substances on any street in the town, shall first obtain a license therefor to be issued by the town clerk and to that end shall make application to the chief of police for such license and upon the recommendation of the chief of police such license may be issued, to sell the articles or substances hereinbefore mentioned upon any street in the town for a period from the date of issue of such license until the first day of June next ensuing such date.
(Ch. 8, § 1, 9-6-27)
Sec. 12-2. - Fees.#
The applicant for a license required by the provisions of this chapter shall first pay a fee therefor as follows: (1)
Hawker, peddler, door-to-door sales:
30-day .....$25.00
6-month .....$50.00
One Year .....$100.00
(2)
For peddling jewelry .....$50.00 per year.
(Ch. 8, § 2, 9-6-27; Ch. 293, 4-1-24)
Sec. 12-3. - Exemptions.#
(a)
No fees shall be charged for licenses issued to any person selling religious books and publications in behalf of Bible, tract or other religious or moral societies for the purpose of promoting religious or moral improvement and which are sold for that purpose and not for pecuniary profit; or to butchers retailing meats, or to fishermen selling fish or shellfish from carts or otherwise, or to any person peddling or selling any tow cloth, knit stockings, gloves, mitts or other articles of household manufacture, or articles manufactured with his own hands, or to any person who shall receive a license from the state in accordance with the provisions of G.L. 1956, §§ 5-11-8 and 5-11-18.
(b)
Nothing herein contained shall apply to milkmen, nor to farmers selling the produce of their farms or selling both the produce of their farms and the produce of other farms, nor to vendors of ice or newspapers, nor to holders of lunch-cart licenses.
(Ch. 8, §§ 10, 11, 9-6-27)
State Law reference— Exemptions, G.L. 1956, §§ 5-11-7—5-11-9 and 5-11-18.
Sec. 12-4. - Unlawful use of license badge.#
No person shall wear any license badge issued under this chapter after the expiration or revocation of the license represented by it. Any licensed person who shall suffer such badge, issued to him as aforesaid, to be used by another person for a purpose similar to that for which the badge was issued to him shall forfeit such badge, together with the license represented by it.
(Ch. 8, § 5, 9-6-27)
Sec. 12-5. - Individuality of license.#
No license issued under this chapter shall authorize any person other than the one named therein to act thereunder; and no license shall be transferable.
(Ch. 8, § 6, 9-6-27)
Sec. 12-6. - Failure to exhibit license.#
Any person who shall neglect or refuse for the space of ten (10) minutes after demand by any police constable to exhibit to him his license shall be deemed for the purpose of this chapter to be unlicensed and to have violated the provisions of this chapter.
(Ch. 8, § 7, 9-6-27)
Sec. 12-7. - Hawking, shouting restricted.#
All hawking or shouting by hawkers and peddlers for the purpose of barter or sale of anything enumerated in this chapter is hereby prohibited before 8:00 a.m., and after 7:00 p.m. Where two (2) or more persons are on one (1) wagon or cart used in hawking and peddling, only those having licenses shall be permitted to hawk or shout, and in no case shall more than one (1) of such licensees hawk or shout at the same time. Hawking or shouting is hereby prohibited in the immediate vicinity of any house in which there is any person suffering from serious illness, after notice of the same from any person. Hawkers and peddlers may make reasonable announcement of the merchandise which they have for sale, but loud, unnecessary outcries likely to disturb or annoy persons in the vicinity shall not be made at any place or time.
(Ch. 8, § 8, 9-6-27)
Cross reference— Noise, § 10-51 et seq.; streets, sidewalks and other public places, Ch. 17; zoning, App. A.