General Laws of Massachusetts - Chapter 101 Transient Vendors, Hawkers and Pedlers
- Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions - Chapter 101, Section 1
The following words shall for the purposes of this chapter have the following meanings, unless the context requires otherwise:— “Deputy director”, the deputy director of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Application of chapter - Chapter 101, Section 2
The provisions of this chapter relative to transient vendors shall not apply to sales by commercial travelers or by selling agents to dealers in the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Transient vendors; license; application; special deposit; bond; conditions; fees; rules and regulations; renewals - Chapter 101, Section 3
Every person before commencing business in the commonwealth as a transient vendor, whether as principal or agent, shall make written application, under oath, for a...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Written application for promoter license; fees; written operating agreements with vendors - Chapter 101, Section 3A
(a) Each business or person, before commencing business as a promoter, shall make a written application, under oath, for a license to the deputy director...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Filing of applications; records; inspection - Chapter 101, Section 4
The deputy director shall keep on file all applications for such licenses and a record of all licenses issued thereon. All files and records of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Local license; application; fee; statement of transient vendor; certificate; endorsement of town clerk - Chapter 101, Section 5
Every transient vendor, before making any sales of goods, wares or merchandise in a town, shall make application to the aldermen or selectmen or other...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Neglect or refusal to file statement; false representations - Chapter 101, Section 6
Any transient vendor who neglects or refuses to file the statement described in the preceding section, if required by the aldermen, selectmen or other like...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Power of attorney in applications for licenses; appointment of deputy director as lawful attorney; service of process - Chapter 101, Section 6A
Every application under sections three to five, inclusive, for a transient vendor’s license shall contain an irrevocable power of attorney, in such form as the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Advertisement of bankrupt, closing out, administrator’s and fire sales; statement of character and reasons for special sale - Chapter 101, Section 7
No transient vendor shall advertise, represent or hold forth any sale as an insurance, bankrupt, insolvent, assignee’s, trustee’s, executor’s, administrator’s, receiver’s, wholesale, manufacturers’ wholesale or...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Selling without license; false statements in license application - Chapter 101, Section 8
No transient vendor shall sell or expose for sale, at public or private sale, any goods, wares or merchandise without state and local licenses therefor,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Penalty for violation of Sec. 7 or 8 - Chapter 101, Section 9
Violations of section seven or eight shall be punished by a fine of not more than fifty dollars or by imprisonment for not more than...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Action for recovery of local license fee - Chapter 101, Section 10
If a person liable for the license fee required by section five refuses or neglects to pay the same after demand by the clerk of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Return or surrender of state license; cancellation; affidavit of loss; notice - Chapter 101, Section 11
Upon the expiration and return, or surrender before expiration, of each state license, the deputy director shall cancel the same, endorse the date of return...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Attachment of special deposit; execution; notice of claim; payment of fines and penalties - Chapter 101, Section 12
Each deposit made with the deputy director shall, during the term of the licensee’s license and for sixty days after the return or surrender thereof...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Special licenses relating to transient sales for charitable purposes - Chapter 101, Section 12A
The selectmen in a town or in a city such board or officer as may be designated by ordinance, may, under such conditions as they...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions - Chapter 101, Section 13
Except as hereinafter expressly provided, the terms “hawker” and “pedler” as used in this chapter shall mean and include any person, either principal or agent,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Unauthorized sales - Chapter 101, Section 14
A hawker or pedler who sells or barters or carries for sale or barter or exposes therefor any goods, wares or merchandise, except as permitted...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Application of chapter - Chapter 101, Section 15
The provisions of this chapter relating to hawkers and peddlers shall not apply to wholesalers or jobbers selling to dealers only, nor to commercial agents...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Sale of certain articles; temporary licenses - Chapter 101, Section 16
The sale by hawkers or pedlers of jewelry, furs, wines or spirituous liquors, small artificial flowers or miniature flags is prohibited. This prohibition shall not...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Sale of frozen desserts on or from motor vehicle; flashing lights required - Chapter 101, Section 16A
Any hawker or peddler who sells frozen desserts, as defined in section sixty-five G of chapter ninety-four, on or from a motor vehicle, shall equip...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Sale of certain articles without license - Chapter 101, Section 17
Hawkers and peddlers may sell without a license newspapers, religious publications, ice, flowering plants and such flowers, fruits, nuts and berries as may be wild...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Sale without license - Chapter 101, Section 18
Articles other than those the sale of which is licensed, or permitted without a license, under the preceding section, and not prohibited by section sixteen,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Food for sale for consumption by infants; drugs - Chapter 101, Section 18A
Food manufactured and packaged for sale for consumption by a child under the age of two years, or a drug as defined in section one...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Trade or sale of bootblacking by minors; permits - Chapter 101, Section 19
The aldermen or selectmen may make regulations consistent with the general laws relative to the exercise of the trade of bootblacking by minors, and to...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Permitting or aiding minor to violate Sec. 19 or 34 - Chapter 101, Section 20
No person, having a minor under his control, shall knowingly permit such minor to violate any provision of section nineteen or any provision of section...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Employing or permitting minor to engage in hawking or peddling without permit or license - Chapter 101, Section 21
Whoever employs a minor in, or, having the care or custody of a minor, permits such minor to engage in, hawking or peddling without a...
- Massachusetts General Laws - License; certificate of police chief; fees; special state licenses; rules and regulations - Chapter 101, Section 22
The deputy director may grant a license to go about carrying for sale or barter, exposing therefor and selling or bartering any goods, wares or...
- Massachusetts General Laws - License for sale of prepared food; requisites - Chapter 101, Section 22A
No license shall be issued pursuant to section twenty-two to a person for the business of selling or exposing for sale from a mobile vending...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1961, 293, Sec. 2 - Chapter 101, Section 23
Repealed, 1961, 293, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Special licenses to veterans and blind persons; authority to sell on public streets - Chapter 101, Section 24
The deputy director may grant without fee, on proof of identity, a special state license to act as hawker or peddler, subject otherwise to this...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1970, 775 - Chapter 101, Section 25
Repealed, 1970,
- Massachusetts General Laws - Record of licenses; inspection - Chapter 101, Section 26
The deputy director shall keep a record of all licenses to hawkers and peddlers granted by him, including the number of each such license and...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Endorsement, display, and production of license; penalties - Chapter 101, Section 27
Every person licensed as a hawker or pedler shall endorse his usual signature upon his license. The deputy director shall, at the expense of the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Effect of license on prosecution - Chapter 101, Section 28
No license issued to a hawker or pedler shall defeat or bar a prosecution against the licensee, if it is proved that he sold or...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Sales by hawkers or pedlers licensed as auctioneers - Chapter 101, Section 29
No hawker or pedler, holding an auctioneer’s license, shall sell or expose for sale by public auction any goods, wares or merchandise in any town...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Revocation of licenses - Chapter 101, Section 30
Any license granted by the deputy director under this chapter may be revoked by him upon conviction of the licensee of any crime which in...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Counterfeiting or forging licenses - Chapter 101, Section 31
Whoever counterfeits or forges a license, or a certificate of registration issued pursuant to section thirty-four, or has a counterfeited or forged license or certificate...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Arrest of hawkers, peddlers and door-to-door salespersons; prosecution - Chapter 101, Section 32
The deputy director, inspectors of standards and, within their respective jurisdictions, sealers or deputy sealers of weights and measures, constables and police officers shall arrest...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Temporary licenses to sell articles for charitable purposes; fees - Chapter 101, Section 33
The selectmen in a town or in a city such board or officer as may be designated by ordinance may, under such conditions as they...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Door-to-door sales for future delivery; employment of minors; duties of sales organization; registration - Chapter 101, Section 34
(a) As used in this section the following terms shall have the following meanings:— “Sales agent”, a person under eighteen years of age who is...
Last modified: September 11, 2015