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[HISTORY: Adopted by the Town Meeting of the Town of Rockport 3-22-1997 (Ch. 13B of the 1997 Code of By-laws). Amendments noted where applicable.]
[Amended 4-3-2004 ATM; 9-8-2025 FTM by Art. G]
No person, without having first obtained a license in accordance with Chapter 126, Select Board, § 126-4, of these by-laws, shall conduct the following activities within the Town:
A. 
Purchase, sell or barter junk, old metals or secondhand articles within the Town;
B. 
Set up, use or drive hackney carriages for the conveyance of persons for hire from place to place within the Town or from within the Town to places outside the Town;
C. 
Discharge, explode, set off (or cause any of the foregoing) fireworks within the Town;
D. 
Set up, operate or carry on a self-service laundry or "laundromat," so called, or self-service dry-cleaning establishment;
E. 
Set up, operate or carry on any business as a transient vendor as defined in MGL c. 101, § 1.
F. 
Hawk or peddle any magazines, publications, books, magazine and book subscriptions;
G. 
Set up, operate or carry on any business for which a license is required by statute to be issued or which may be issued by the licensing authority of the Town;
H. 
Set up, operate or carry on a livery boat service for motor, sail or man-powered vessels.
I. 
Set up, operate or carry on any business as a pawnbroker.
J. 
Set up, operate or carry on any taxi or livery service.
K. 
Set up or operate any vending machine.
L. 
Possess or consume any alcoholic beverage in any public place in the Town unless pursuant to a special (one-day) alcohol license.
[Added 4-6-2013 ATM]
A. 
Fingerprint-based criminal history checks; denial of application.
(1) 
In accordance with the provisions of MGL c. 6, § 172B 1/2, the Police Department shall fingerprint the persons listed below and conduct state and national fingerprint-based criminal history checks for such individuals. To carry out these criminal history checks, the Police Department shall be authorized to utilize Federal Bureau of Investigations records; provided, however, that such records shall not be disseminated to unauthorized entities and shall be maintained and disclosed in accordance with law.
(2) 
The licensing authority is hereby authorized to deny an application for any license specified herein, including renewals and transfers thereof, from any person who is determined unfit for the license due to information obtained pursuant to this by-law. Factors that shall be considered in making a determination of fitness shall include but not be limited to whether the record subject has been convicted of, or is under pending indictment for, a crime that bears upon the subject's ability or fitness to serve in that capacity, including any felony or a misdemeanor that involved force or threat of force, possession of a controlled substance, or a sex-related offense.
B. 
All applicants for hawkers and peddlers, door-to-door sales, pawnbrokers, solicitors, or taxi and livery licenses, and for any license to sell alcoholic beverages, including the "responsible manager" listed on the license application, shall be subject to the requirements of this section.
C. 
The Select Board, in consultation with the Chief of Police, shall promulgate regulations for the implementation of this by-law, which may include, but shall not be limited to, establishment of submission deadlines; procedures for making recommendations to the licensing authority or making a licensing decision as a result of such criminal history check; procedures for accessing, correcting or amending any such record; and criteria for fitness determinations in addition to those set forth in § 232-1 of this by-law.
D. 
The Police Department shall charge a fee of $100 for each fingerprinting and criminal history check. A portion of the fee, as specified in MGL c. 6, § 172B 1/2, shall be deposited into the Firearms Fingerprint Identity Verification Trust Fund, and the remainder of the fee shall be retained by the Police Department for costs associated with the administration of the fingerprinting system.