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16-2.1   Registration.
   (A)   No person shall hawk or peddle any fruits or vegetables or any of the articles enumerated in M.G.L. Chapter 101, Section 17 and acts in amendment thereof or in addition thereto, until he or she has been assigned a number by the Division of Health Inspections, Inspectional Services Department and until he or she has recorded with said Division, his or her name and residence, and until a recent photograph of said applicant shall be presented to the Division of Health Inspections, Inspectional Services Department, to be attached to his or her license (said photograph to be a passport size—viz., 2 inch by 2 inch) and if he or she hawks or peddles articles which are sold by weight or measure, a certificate from the Sealer of Weights and Measures that all weights, measures and balances to be used by him or her have been properly inspected and sealed. The presence of unsealed weights or measures on the team, cart or person of such hawker or peddler shall terminate permission to hawk or peddle under such registration.
   (B)   No person shall hawk or peddle any fruits or vegetables until he or she has obtained a license therefor from the Division of Health Inspections, Inspectional Services Department, unless he or she is engaged in the pursuit of agriculture or unless such articles are the product of his or her own labor or of the labor of his or her family.
   (C)   The Division of Health Inspections, Inspectional Services Department is hereby authorized to grant licenses to hawk or peddle fruits and vegetables to persons 16 years of age or over who have complied with the foregoing requirements, such licenses to be for the term of one year from the date of issue.
   (D)   The foregoing provisions shall not apply to minors licensed by the Mayor and Boston City Council.
(CBC 1975 Ord. T14 § 269; CBC 1985 16-2.1; Ord. 1991 c. 5 § 20)
16-2.2   Crying of Wares.
   No person hawking, peddling, selling or exposing for sale any articles shall cry his or her wares to the disturbance of the peace and comfort of the inhabitants of the city, or in the neighborhood of school houses or of places used for divine worship.
(CBC 1975 Ord. T14 § 270; CBC 1985 16-2.2)
16-2.3   Tobacco Products, Distribution in Public Places.
   No person shall, except at full retail price, in or upon any part of the streets, parks, public grounds, public buildings and other public places within the city, distribute any product containing tobacco or non-tobacco cigarette products for any commercial purpose.
(Ord. 1984 c. 22; CBC 1985 16-2.3)
16-2.4   Vehicles and Receptacles.
   No hawker or peddler shall carry or convey articles enumerated in M.G.L. Chapter 101, Section 17 and acts in amendment thereof or in addition thereto, in a manner tending to injure or disturb the public health or comfort, or except in vehicles or receptacles which are neat and clean and do not leak, and which have printed on them in letters and figures at least 2 inches in height the name of the person selling and the number given him or her by the Division of Health Inspections, Inspectional Services Department and which are approved monthly by the Division of Health Inspections, Inspectional Services Department.
(CBC 1975 Ord. T14 § 271; CBC 1985 16-2.4; Ord. 1991 c. 5 § 21)
16-2.5   Sale of Propelled Novelty Substances Prohibited.
   No person shall in or about any part of the streets, parks, public grounds, public buildings or other public places sell or expose for sale any toy, amusement or novelty product fitted to propel, by compressed air or gas, any substance primarily intended for amusement or decoration, in the nature of “liquid string”, so-called.
(CBC 1985 16-2.5; Ord. 1994 c. 12 § 1) Penalty, see Subsection 16-32.6
16-2.6   Improper Preparation of Food.
   (A)   In the city, manufacturing, preparing, handling, serving and/or distributing food from any vehicle and/or pushcart and/or by any hawker, peddler or like transient vendor, as defined in M.G.L. Chapter 101, without the use of sanitary gloves, shall be considered unsanitary or unhealthful conditions in accordance with M.G.L. Chapter 94, Section 305A.
   (B)   This Section shall apply only to “Ready to Eat Food” as defined in the commonwealth’s Sanitary Code, 105 CMR 590.00.
   (C)   Sanitary gloves shall be used in the following manner: a new pair shall be worn for each transaction.
(CBC 1985 16-2.6; Ord. 2000 c. 1)
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