Peddler

 

Licensing Board Rules & Regulations

10.01 Peddlers

a)         No person may sell or display wares in Provincetown without a Provincetown peddler license issued by the Licensing Board.

b)         No peddler may sell or display wares within 100 ft. of a store selling similar wares.

c)         No peddler except one doing business in Provincetown prior to May 24, 1971 may sell wares on any town wharf, town parking lot, or town way, other than Bradford Street, except that a peddler may sell wares on Commercial Street between October 1 and May 15 of each calendar year.

d)         Each peddler must follow the flow of traffic and must keep moving when not engaged in the process of selling.

 

The Provincetown General Bylaws:

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.

 

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).