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(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.