§ 165-1. Scope; purpose; authority.

A. 

This chapter is enacted to supplement the provisions of Chapter 101 of the Massachusetts General Laws regulating the sale of goods, wares or merchandise by transient vendors, hawkers and peddlers and is intended to cover the sale of goods, wares or merchandise by all persons who are subject to the provisions of the said Chapter 101 and by certain other persons who may, by legislative oversight, be excluded from the scope of said statute.

B. 

It is the specific and express purpose of this chapter to regulate, inter alia, the sale of goods, wares or merchandise by all transient vendors, hawkers and peddlers, not only those who go from town to town or from place to place within one town, but also those who conduct their business at a single location within one town and who may do so, not only within any tent, booth, building or other structure shelter, but also in the open air on any lot of land or part thereof.

C. 

In the enactment of this chapter, the Town Council of the Town of Franklin specifically relies upon powers made available to it by Section 8 of Article 89 of the amendments to the State Constitution and by MGL c. 43B, § 13.