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Sec. 11-1. - Hours of business.#
(a)
No store, licensed pool room or other place of business for the sale of goods, wares or merchandise, except licensed victualling houses and licensed bowling alleys, or for the sale of medicine by a registered pharmacist, shall be kept open between 11:00 p.m. and 4:00 a.m.
(1)
Class A licensed places shall not open before 7:00 a.m. and shall not close later than 12:00 midnight.
(2)
Class B licensed places shall not open before 6:00 a.m. and shall not close later than 1:00 a.m.
(3)
Class C licensed places shall not open before 6:00 a.m. and shall close not later than 12:00 midnight.
(4)
Class D licensed places shall not open before 6:00 a.m. and shall close not later than 1:00 a.m.
(5)
All other victualling houses not listed above shall not be kept open between 1:00 a.m. and 4:00 a.m.
(6)
No licensed bowling alley shall be kept open between 12:00 midnight and 7:00 a.m.
(b)
Every keeper of a place of business which shall be open or kept open contrary to the provisions of this section, and every person opening or keeping open any such place of business contrary to the provisions of this section, shall be fined not more than twenty dollars ($20.00).
(Code 1967, § 19-1)
State Law reference— Authority of town council to set hours of operation of taverns, victualling houses, etc., G.L. 1956, § 5-24-1; authority of town council to regulate bowling alleys and billiard tables, G.L. 1956, § 5-2-1.
Sec. 11-2. - Palmistry, phrenology, etc.#
No person shall practice or continue to practice or hold himself out to practice palmistry or phrenology or any other occult science, in the town, unless and until such person shall first have obtained a license from the town council. Any person violating this section shall be punished in accordance with section 1-8. Fees shall be set as follows:
Per day .....$ 20.00
Weekly .....60.00
Monthly .....100.00
Annually .....350.00
Licenses shall expire April thirtieth.
(Code 1969, § 19-2; Ord. of 4-9-91(1))
Sec. 11-3. - Business registration fee—Town of Warren.#
(a)
All wholesale, retail, commercial, professional service or manufacturing businesses whether by sole proprietorships, partnerships, corporations or any business entity shall register their business, company, trade or office situated in the Town of Warren with the town clerk. Each registration shall contain the name of the firm or business, the owner(s) or operator(s) of the firm or business, the type of business to be conducted and other basic information.
(b)
There shall be a twenty-five dollar ($25.00) fee for each registration. The registration fee shall be set by town council ordinance.
(c)
Upon registration of a business, a registration certificate shall be issued to the registrant. No other business of the same trade name shall be allowed to register once a certificate of registration has been issued without the approval of the prior registrant in writing. Every registration certificate shall expire the thirty-first day in December and shall be renewed annually upon payment of the required fee. No certificate shall be renewed if the business fails to provide proof from the tax collector that all municipal taxes have been paid to date. Every certificate of registration shall placed in a conspicuous location in each business establishment.
(d)
Any business required to obtain a liquor, victualling or any other license to operate under any other section of the general laws shall be exempt from the requirement of this statue.
(e)
Any person, whether as principal, agent, employee, or otherwise, who violates any provision of this chapter, shall be fined not to exceed twenty-five dollars ($25.00) per day for each offense. Any fine imposed under this ordinance may be appealed to the Warren Municipal Court. The fines shall inure to the town and each day that the violation continues shall be deemed to constitute a separate offense.
(Ord. of 5-10-2005)
Editor's note— An ordinance adopted May 10, 2005, did not specify manner of codification; hence, designation as § 11-3 was at the editor's discretion.
Sec. 11-4. - Administrative license renewal.#
The town clerk is authorized to administratively renew any license issued by the town, without placing the matter before the town council, if the following provisions are met: (1)
No public hearing is required for the renewal;
(2)
The renewal application and the licensee are in compliance with all applicable provisions of state and local law pertaining to the license; and
(3)
The licensee has not been issued a warning or subject to a show cause hearing in the previous year.
(4)
The town clerk determines that there is no other reason why review by the council is preferable for the license renewal.
If the town clerk is not satisfied that all four (4) of these criteria are met, then the license renewal shall be [forwarded] to the council for review and decision.
(Ord. of 10-9-2018)