Licensing Board Rules & Regulations
7.0
BOARDING, LODGING, GUEST HOUSE OR TOURIST
HOME LICENSES
7.01
Definition
Boarding, Lodging, Guest House or Tourist Home shall mean a dwelling
with a managing resident on the premises, plus accommodations, with or without
meals, rented to more than two and fewer than twenty persons.
7.02 Maintaining a Register
Every Boarding, Lodging, Guest House or Tourist Home keeper
shall maintain a permanent register in which shall be recorded the name and
residence of every person engaging or occupying a private room. Such register
shall be retained by the holder of the license for a period of at least one
year after the date of the last entry therein and shall be open to the
inspection of the licensing authorities, their agents, and the police.
8. LICENSING AND REGULATION OF BUSINESSES
8-2. Notification of intent to commence business. No corporation, foreign or domestic, (and no person, partnership or association not required by law to obtain a license for the conduct of its business) shall within the Town of Provincetown conduct any retail or wholesale business involving the sale or rental of goods, without first registered annually with the Licensing Agent.
8-7. Annual inspection and filings. Following registration, all premises shall undergo an annual inspection scheduled by the Licensing Agent, conducted by the Department of Municipal Inspections, and are subject to all registration fees and inspection fees, and will have filed a current certificate of good standing or a certificate of cooperate legal existence, and will have filed a copy of articles of organization attesting to the corporate status of the registrant.
8-8. Conducting business without proper license(s). No business licensed by the Licensing Board shall open without having obtained and paid for the appropriate license.
8-9.
Hours of retail business operation. No
retail business shall be carried on between the hours of 1:00 a.m. and 4:00
a.m. without written permission from the Licensing Board. A non-criminal
disposition penalty will be assessed on any establishment licensed by the
Licensing Board or any establishment required to be licensed by the licensing
Board, or any establishment required to be registered, operating between the
hours of 1:00 a.m. and 4:00 a.m. in the amount of one hundred dollars ($100)
for the first offense, two hundred dollars ($200) for the second offense and
three hundred dollars ($300) for the third offense. Each violation of the hours
of retail business operation shall be deemed to be a separate offense.
8-10. Prohibit Brown Bagging. No Common Victualer or Innholder or any other
premises licensed to sell alcoholic beverages under G.L.c.138 shall allow any
patron to bring alcoholic beverages onto the premises except in an unopened and
sealed bottle which remains unopened and sealed while the patron is on the
premises.
9. LICENSING AND REGULATIONS OF CERTAIN BUSINESSES
9-1. Food for sale. No person shall offer food for sale to the public unless licensed as a common Victualer or an Innholder under the provisions of Chapter 140 of the General Laws or licensed for retail sales (either as a transient vendor or as defined in Provincetown General By-Laws 8-2) along with the appropriate Board of Health food service permit(s).
10. SIGN REGULATIONS
10-1.
Administration and Enforcement.
10-1-1.
Inspector of Buildings. The
Inspector of Buildings shall administer and enforce sign regulations. The
Inspector of Buildings shall give written notice to any person or persons
erecting new signs in violation of these regulations to render compliance
therewith within ten days or remove the sign by reason of failure to do so.
10-1-2.
Registration of signs. All existing
signs shall be registered with the Building Inspector with a statement of size
and content. No registration fee shall be required. All newly erected signs
shall be registered with the Inspector of Buildings with a statement of size
and content, and an inspection fee shall be paid at the time of registration.
10-1-3.
Length of time given for compliance. All
persons, firms and corporations having presently established signs shall obtain
permits for said signs as hereinafter provided; and any presently existing
signs, regardless of size, may remain as non-conforming until such time of
replacement or repairs which would change the principal wording, size or shape.
At such time, such changed sign as aforesaid must comply with
the requirements of this bylaw.
10-2.
General Regulations.
10-2-1.
Related to premises. No sign shall
be erected or maintained unless its subject matter relates exclusively to the
premises on which it is located, or to products, accommodations, services, or
activities on those premises.
10-2-2.
Off premises signs. No "off
premises" billboard signs or other off-premises advertising device shall
be permitted.
10-2-3.
Location. No sign shall be attached
to a roof or extend above the top or beyond the end of the wall to which it is
attached, or protrude beyond any lot line of the premises.
10-2-4.
Height. No ground sign shall exceed
12 feet in height as measured from the ground level to the top of the sign.
10-2-5.
Type of illumination. Neon,
gas-filled tube type illuminated or internally illuminated signs shall not be
permitted.
10-2-6.
Flashing or moving signs. No sign
shall produce glare, flash, move or have activated lights or elements.
10-2-7.
Residential district. No sign relating
to commercial activity shall be permitted in a Class B Residential District.
10-3.
Sign Size.
The Basic Maximum Sign Area for signs is as
follows:
|
Class B |
2 sq. ft. |
|
Class G |
2 sq. ft. |
|
Class W, W-B |
16 sq. ft. |
2. Commercial District:
|
Class R |
16 sq. ft. |
|
Class P |
|
|
Motels |
16 sq. ft. |
|
Other Uses |
32 sq. ft. |
3. Other Districts:
|
S, M |
16 sq. ft. |
10-4.
Multiple signs.
The maximum number of signs or display
structures allowed in a business or location is two (2). The area of the two
signs may not exceed the Basic Maximum Sign area specified in Section 10-3 with
the following exceptions:
1. A business or location having 300 feet or
more frontage along a single street or highway may have a maximum of two signs,
each of which may have the Basic Maximum Sign Area.
2. Directional signs not exceeding one square
foot in area may be used without limitation where needed.
3. Any business or location on a corner lot
may use three signs having total area not exceeding the Basic Maximum Sign Area.
4. Any business or location having frontage
on parallel streets may have two signs located on each street, totaling up to
the Basic Maximum Sign Area for each street.
5. In addition to any other allowable signs,
one Directory Sign shall be allowed for a group of three or more businesses
with a remote entrance on a private way, with directory listings in letter
sizes not to exceed three inches, or aggregate sign size not over six square
feet.
6. In addition to any signs previously
referred to, a business may have non- illuminated and non-projecting signs
erected at the side or over the door of a store or show window of the business
establishment which announces the name of the proprietor and the nature of the
business conducted therein, which sign shall not exceed six square feet.
7. A single sign not over three square feet
in area, including frame or other decoration, erected to announce the sale or
rent of the property so designated is allowed in addition to the above provided
that such sign must be placed parallel to the street, may not be mounted on
trees or shrubs, must be securely attached to a structure or in the ground, and
must be set back from the lot line at least ten feet, except when a building is
not set
back ten feet from the lot line in which case
such sign may be erected on the building or in the ground against the building.
10-5.
Temporary and political signs.
Cloth or cardboard signs, banners, and
posters except posters intended for window display, shall be referred to the
Building Inspector for approval and issuance of a permit. Temporary signs,
banners, and posters covering social, holiday and political events must be
firmly attached to a supporting device and present no undue hazard to the
public. The time allowed for this type of advertising shall not exceed ninety
(90) days. Control of political advertising during an election campaign shall
be administered by the Inspector of Buildings who may grant a one-time group
permit to the Chairman or Candidate of any party in lieu of individual permits.
All such advertising must be removed within ten (10) days after the election
date.
10.7.
Interpretation.
This bylaw will not be interpreted to
authorize any violation of any zoning bylaw of the town.