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Article VI
JUNK DEALERS
Section 1. No person shall carry on the business of pawnbroker, or dealer in, or keeper of a shop for the purchase, sale or barter of junk, old metals or second-hand articles in the town, unless he is duly licensed therefore by the Board of Selectmen.
Section 2. No person shall engage in buying or collecting junk or old metal or second-hand articles, from place to place within the town unless he is duly licensed therefore by the Board of Selectmen.
Section 3. Every keeper of such shop shall keep a book in which he shall record the time of receiving any article as a pawn or purchasing any article, a description of the same, the name, age and residence of the person from whom and the day and hour when he received or purchased it, and the book shall at all times be open to the inspection of the Board of Selectmen and any person by them respectively authorized to make such inspection.
Section 4. No keeper of a shop for the purchase, sale, or barter of junk, old metals or second-hand articles, and no junk collector shall directly or indirectly receive by way of barter or exchange, any articles aforesaid, or purchase any said article from any minor, knowing or having reason to believe him to be such.
Section 5. Every such shop and all articles of merchandise therein, shall be exhibited to the Board of Selectmen, or to any member of said board, or to any person respectively authorized by said board or any member thereof to examine such shop or articles of merchandise, whenever a demand is made by any of them for such exhibition.
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