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 or uncultivated. The aldermen or selectmen, may by regulations not inconsistent with this chapter, regulate the sale or barter and the carrying for sale or barter or exposing therefor by hawkers and peddlers of such articles without the payment of a fee may, in like manner require hawkers and peddlers, whether adults or minors, to be licensed except as otherwise provided and may promulgate regulations governing the same provided, however, that the license fee shall not exceed that prescribed by section 22. Such regulations may, in like manner, affix penalties for violations of such regulations not to exceed the sum of $20 for each such violation. A hawker and peddler licensed under this section shall not be required to be licensed under said section 22.
Structure Massachusetts General Laws
Part I - Administration of the Government
Title XV - Regulation of Trade
Chapter 101 - Transient Vendors, Hawkers and Pedlers
Section 2 - Application of Provisions of Chapter Relative to Transient Vendors
Section 4 - Filing of Applications; Records; Inspection
Section 6 - Neglect or Refusal by Transient Vendor to File Statement; False Representations
Section 8 - Selling Without License; False Statements in License Application
Section 9 - Penalty for Violation of Sec. 7 or 8
Section 10 - Action for Recovery of Local License Fee
Section 11 - Return or Surrender of State License; Cancellation; Affidavit of Loss; Notice
Section 12a - Special Licenses Relating to Transient Sales for Charitable Purposes
Section 13 - Hawker and Pedler Defined
Section 14 - Unauthorized Selling or Bartering by Hawker or Pedler
Section 15 - Application of Provisions of Chapter Relating to Hawkers and Peddlers
Section 16 - Sale by Hawkers or Pedlers of Certain Articles; Temporary Licenses
Section 17 - Sale by Hawkers or Peddlers of Certain Articles Without License
Section 18 - Sale by Hawkers or Pedlers Without License
Section 18a - Food for Sale for Consumption by Infants; Drugs
Section 19 - Trade or Sale of Bootblacking by Minors; Permits
Section 20 - Permitting or Aiding Minor to Violate Sec. 19 or 34
Section 22a - License for Sale of Prepared Food; Requisites
Section 24 - Special Licenses to Veterans and Blind Persons; Authority to Sell on Public Streets
Section 26 - Record of Licenses to Hawkers and Peddlers; Inspection
Section 27 - Endorsement, Display, and Production of License; Penalties
Section 28 - Effect of License on Prosecution
Section 29 - Sales by Hawkers or Pedlers Licensed as Auctioneers
Section 30 - Revocation of Licenses
Section 31 - Counterfeiting or Forging Licenses
Section 33 - Temporary Licenses to Sell Articles for Charitable Purposes; Fees