CHAPTER 20A.
TRANSIENT VENDORS.

§ 20A-1. Defined.

§ 20A-2. License required; application; fee; term.

§ 20A-3. State license required.

§ 20A-4. Penalties for violation of chapter.

§ 20A-5. Enforcement of chapter.

§ 20A-6. Noncriminal disposition.

§ 20A-7. Nonprofit organizations exempt.

§ 20A-8. Separability.

Sec. 20A-1. Defined.

As used in this chapter the words "transient vendor" shall mean (i) a transient vendor as defined by General Laws, chapter 101, section 1, and (ii) a transient vendor as defined by General Laws, chapter 101, section 1, with the sole exception that the temporary or transient business is not carried on in any tent, booth, building or other structure but is carried on in a fixed location.

Sec. 20A-2. License required; application; fee; term.

Every transient vendor, before making any sales of goods, wares or merchandise in the city, shall make application to the city council for a license and shall accompany such application with a license fee of two hundred dollars. Thereupon the city council shall authorize the city clerk to issue a license to the applicant authorizing the sale of such goods, wares and merchandise within the city. The license issued shall remain in force so long as the licensee shall continuously keep and expose for sale in the city such stock of goods, wares and merchandise, but not later than the first day of January following its date.

Sec. 20A-3. State license required.

No license shall be granted under this chapter to a transient vendor as defined by General Laws, chapter 101, section 1, unless the applicant has complied with the provisions of General Laws, chapter 101, section 3, and exhibits to the city council a state license issued by the director of standards in the executive office of consumer affairs of the Commonwealth.

Sec. 20A-4. Penalties for violation of chapter.

Any person who violates any provision of this chapter shall be subject to a penalty of three hundred dollars for each such violation. Each day such violation occurs or continues shall be a separate offense.

Sec. 20A-5. Enforcement of chapter.

Members of the police department duly appointed shall enforce the provisions of this chapter.

Sec. 20A-6. Noncriminal disposition.

Members of the police department duly appointed may, as an alternative to initiating criminal proceedings, seek the noncriminal disposition of violations of this chapter by following the procedure set forth in section 21D of chapter 40 of the General Laws.

Sec. 20A-7. Nonprofit organizations exempt.

Nonprofit organizations shall be exempt from the provisions of this chapter.

Sec. 20A-8. Separability.

If any clause, sentence, paragraph, section or part of this chapter or the application thereof to any person or circumstances shall for any reason be adjudged by a court to be invalid, such judgment shall not affect, impair or invalidate the remainder and the application thereof to other persons or circumstances but shall be confined in its operation to the clause, sentence, paragraph, section or part thereof directly involved in the controversy in which such judgment shall have been rendered, and to the person or circumstances involved. It is hereby declared to be the intent of the city council that this enactment would have been adopted had such invalid provisions not been included herein.