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.
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).