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--- (8) --- Cross reference— Streets and sidewalks, Ch. 18.
State Law reference— Hawkers and peddlers generally, G.L. 1956, § 5-11-1 et seq.; local licensing, G.L. 1956, § 5-11-18.
DIVISION 1. - GENERALLY#
Sec. 11-201. - Applicability of article.#
This article shall not apply to any person selling religious books and publications in behalf of the 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; nor to any person peddling any tow cloth, knit stockings, gloves, mitts or other articles of household manufacture, or articles manufactured with his own hands; nor to any person who shall receive a license from the general treasury in accordance with the provisions of section 5-11-7 of the General Laws; nor to any milkman or to any farmer selling the produce of his farm and the produce of other farms or to any vendor of ice or newspapers; nor to any other person who is exempt from such licensing and regulation under state law.
(Code 1967, § 16-8)
Sec. 11-202. - Violations and penalties.#
Every person, except those persons specified in section 11-201, who sells or offers for sale any articles or substances as a hawker or peddler in the town, and every person, except those persons specified in section 11-201, who sells or offers for sale any goods, wares, merchandise, fruits, vegetables or other articles or substances on any street in the town, without a town license as provided by this article, and every person who violates any of the provisions of this article shall be fined not exceeding two hundred dollars ($200.00) or imprisoned for not more than ten (10) days.
(Code 1967, § 16-9; Ord. of 5-15-90)
Secs. 11-203—11-225. - Reserved.#
DIVISION 2. - LICENSE#
Footnotes:
--- (9) --- State Law reference— Authority of town council to license hawkers and peddlers, G.L. 1956, § 5-11-18.
Sec. 11-226. - Required; application; issuance; term.#
Except as otherwise provided by this article, all hawkers and peddlers desiring to sell or to offer for sale as hawkers and peddlers any articles or substances within the town and all persons desiring to sell or to offer for sale any goods, wares, merchandise, ice cream, fruits, vegetables or other articles or substances on any street in the town shall first obtain a town license therefore, to be issued by the town clerk, and to that end shall make application to the town council for such license therefore, respectively, as may be desired, and the town clerk, after the granting of such application by the town council, may issue a license accordingly to such persons respectively to sell the articles and substances herein before mentioned in such manner as shall be specified in such license, upon any street in the town, or to hawkers and peddlers authorizing them to sell or to offer for sale as hawkers and peddlers any articles and substances within the town for the period from the date of such license until April 30 next ensuing such date.
(Code 1967, § 16-1; Ord. No. O-1, 7-8-2008)
Sec. 11-227. - Fees.#
(a)
The Town of Warren shall license the following activities;
For peddling from wagons or carts;
For peddling from hand or push carts;
For peddling on foot without wagon or cart;
For peddling patent medicine;
For peddling watches, jewelry, gold or silver; ware, or articles manufactured of German silver.
(b)
For licenses issued under the provisions of this division, the person receiving the same shall pay to the town clerk the following fees for licenses issued within the dates noted below:
11/01/05—10/31/06 .....$60.00
11/01/06—10/31/07 .....70.00
11/01/07—10/31/08 .....80.00
11/01/08—10/31/09 .....90.00
11/01/09—10/31/10 .....100.00
(Code 1967, § 16-2; Ord. of 5-15-90; Ord. of 4-12-2005)
State Law reference— Authority of town council to require license fee, G.L. 1956, § 5-11-18.
Sec. 11-228. - Daily.#
In addition to the license issued under this division, expiring as provided in section 11-226, the town clerk, upon the approval of the chief of police, may issue licenses for one (1) or more days for one dollar ($1.00) per day.
(Code 1967, § 16-3)
Sec. 11-229. - Transferability.#
No license under the provisions of this division shall authorize any person other than the one named therein to act thereunder, and no such license shall be transferable; except, that any such license may be transferred by the town clerk upon the approval of the town council on the payment of a fee of one dollar ($1.00).
(Code 1967, § 16-4)
Secs. 11-230—11-245. - Reserved.#
DIVISION 3. - BADGE#
Sec. 11-246. - Required; deposit.#
Every person licensed under this article shall also obtain from the town clerk a badge of white metal at least two (2) inches in diameter and shall at all times while engaged in the business for which he is licensed wear such badge conspicuously on the outside of his outside coat. Such badge shall bear in black enamel a number, which shall correspond to the badge number marked on the license, and shall be issued upon the deposit of three dollars ($3.00) to such person as shall obtain a license bearing such badge number, and upon the surrender of such badge to the town clerk such deposit shall be returned and the license thereby be revoked.
(Code 1967, § 16-5)
Sec. 11-247. - Wearing after expiration or revocation of license; use by others.#
No person shall wear any badge referred to in the preceding section after the expiration or revocation of the license represented by it, and any licensed person who shall suffer any badge issued to him 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.
(Code 1967, § 16-6)
Sec. 11-248. - Refusal to exhibit license and badge.#
Any person who shall neglect or refuse for the space of ten (10) minutes after demand by any police officer to exhibit to him his license and badge, shall be deemed for the purpose of this division to be unlicensed, and to have violated the provisions of this article.
(Code 1967, § 16-7)