Given the steady stream of news from Wall Street, I hereby call dibs on the corner of State and Liberty Streets for my pencil selling business. Do I need a permit from the city?
Newburyport Code of Ordinances Section 9-111 reads:
"Miscellaneous vendors; license required. Any person who engages in business in the commonwealth selling goods, wares or merchandise who is not required to be licensed as a transient vendor under section 9-131 et seq. or as a hawker or peddler under section 9-156 shall be required, before transacting business, to apply to the license commission for a license to conduct such a business under the same terms and upon the same restrictions applicable to transient vendors under this article."
You wouldn't be a "transient vendor" because that requires goods to be sold from a "tent, booth, building or other structure." Sec. 9-131.
And you wouldn't be a "hawker or peddler" because that requires you to sell wares "from town to town or from place to place in the same town." Sec. 9-156.
So you would therefore fall under the catch-all provision (which incorporates the licensing standards for transient vendors, including a constitutionally questionable limit of only three "full season" licenses).
P.S. Section 12-1.5 appears to address A-frames. A "movable sign" needs to be within one foot of the building and within four feet of the entrance.
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Silly boy, of course you do!
JS
I know where you can get some quality pencils, cheap (nudge, nudge, wink, wink).
Newburyport Code of Ordinances Section 9-111 reads:
"Miscellaneous vendors; license required. Any person who engages in business in the commonwealth selling goods, wares or merchandise who is not required to be licensed as a transient vendor under section 9-131 et seq. or as a hawker or peddler under section 9-156 shall be required, before transacting business, to apply to the license commission for a license to conduct such a business under the same terms and upon the same restrictions applicable to transient vendors under this article."
You wouldn't be a "transient vendor" because that requires goods to be sold from a "tent, booth, building or other structure." Sec. 9-131.
And you wouldn't be a "hawker or peddler" because that requires you to sell wares "from town to town or from place to place in the same town." Sec. 9-156.
So you would therefore fall under the catch-all provision (which incorporates the licensing standards for transient vendors, including a constitutionally questionable limit of only three "full season" licenses).
P.S. Section 12-1.5 appears to address A-frames. A "movable sign" needs to be within one foot of the building and within four feet of the entrance.
Pencils!?!?! this is the 21st century, the digital age, post-modern America, you should sell pens.
Maybe you can get a small blackboard and do some chalk blogging while your out there.
Hi Paul,
Regarding A-Frame signs, stores are permitted to have signs immediately outside their doors.
What the city council rejected was an variance request for one store to have a sign half a block away at a busy corner.
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