Massachusetts Statutes

Section 11. The provisions of this chapter shall not apply to any auction held or conducted by an order or judgment of any court of the commonwealth or of the United States or by any officer of a municipality, county or state of the United States; sales held by sheriffs, deputy s…

Section 12. Any person violating any of the provisions of this chapter may be fined not more than one thousand dollars or by imprisonment for not more than six months, or both.

Section 13. The division may make and, from time to time alter, amend or repeal rules and regulations for the conduct of auctioneers in the commonwealth not inconsistent with this chapter or any other general or special law.

Section 2. Except as otherwise provided, no person shall engage in the business of or act as an auctioneer in the commonwealth, directly or indirectly, either temporarily or as an incident to any other transaction, unless licensed under the provisions of this chapter.

Section 3. Any person desiring to be licensed as an auctioneer shall make written application, under oath, to the deputy director on a form provided by him. Said application shall set forth the name and address of the applicant and of any other person having a financial interest,…

Section 3A. There shall be a written examination process to license auctioneers in the commonwealth. Such examination shall be administered by an independent testing service designated by the deputy director. All fees and costs required for examination shall be paid by the applic…

Section 3B. A nonresident individual may be licensed as an auctioneer upon conforming to all pertinent provisions of this chapter, provided that the division may exempt from the written examination prescribed in section three A an auctioneer duly licensed in any other state of th…

Section 3C. A license shall be valid for a period of one year from the date of issue unless sooner suspended or revoked and shall be renewed by the division annually thereafter without examination, upon payment of the fee prescribed in section three. Applications for renewals of …

Section 4. No license application conforming to the requirements of sections three and three A shall be denied except after a public hearing held by the deputy director in accordance with and subject to the provisions of chapter thirty A. No such application shall be denied excep…

Section 5. Each license issued by the deputy director shall bear a number, shall be valid for one year from the date of its issuance, may be renewed upon application to the deputy director on a form provided by him, shall not be transferable, and may be exercised only by the lice…

Section 6. Prior to its expiration date, a license may be suspended or revoked by the deputy director in accordance with the procedure and on the grounds set forth in section four, or may be terminated by voluntary surrender by the licensee. Upon the expiration, termination or su…

Section 7. The deputy director shall keep on file, in convenient form and open to public inspection, all license applications and copies of licenses issued and shall annually publish a list of names and addresses of all auctioneers licensed by him, and the names of all persons wh…

Section 8. Each licensee shall keep a complete and accurate account of all goods and chattels sold by him, including the names and addresses of the persons from whom they were received. Each licensee shall be responsible for the reporting and collection of sales and use taxes for…

Section 9. No licensee or other person shall: (a) sell or offer for sale at auction goods known by him to be owned by a minor; (b) advertise an auction or goods for sale at an auction in the commonwealth without including the number of the license issued by the deputy director as…

Section 1. As used in this chapter, the following words shall, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, have the following meanings:— ''Deputy director'', the deputy director of the division of standards within the office of standards of consumer affairs and business regula…

Section 10. Any person violating any of the provisions of this chapter may be punished by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars or by imprisonment for not more than six months, or both. Such fine may be imposed by the deputy director, after hearing, or in a civil or crimin…

Section 11. A person applying for registration or renewal as a registered motor vehicle glass repair shop shall: (1) maintain a physical place of business within the commonwealth at which it has indoor facilities to perform motor vehicle glass repair services and from which it ma…

Section 12. (a) Upon request of a consumer, a registered motor vehicle glass repair shop shall disclose all information relating to the charges for repair or replacement services, including the amount of the charges, the identification and line item charges for the parts provided…

Section 13. The division of standards may inspect the premises of an applicant for a motor vehicle glass repair shop registration or a registered motor vehicle glass repair shop to ascertain compliance with this chapter. Failure to comply with any requirements of this chapter sha…

Section 14. Any motor vehicle glass repair to be performed in the commonwealth shall be performed by a registered motor vehicle glass repair shop. A person, including an insurer, insurance producer, third-party administrator or a motor vehicle service establishment or other party…

Section 2. No person shall engage in motor vehicle repair or motor vehicle glass repair unless such person is registered as a motor vehicle repair shop or as a motor vehicle glass repair shop under this chapter. Any person desiring to be registered as a motor vehicle repair shop …

Section 2A. Notwithstanding the provisions of section two, the requirement of a bond may be satisfied by the submission of a letter of credit in the amount of ten thousand dollars, in a form approved by the deputy director. Said letter of credit shall accompany the written applic…

Section 3. No application for registration conforming to the requirements of section two shall be denied except after a public hearing held by the deputy director in accordance with and subject to the provisions of chapter thirty A. No such application shall be denied except upon…

Section 4. Each certificate of registration issued by the deputy director shall bear a number, shall be valid until June first of the third year after issuance, may thereafter be renewed for a three year period upon application to the deputy director on a form provided by him, sh…

Section 5. Prior to its expiration date, a certificate of registration may be suspended or revoked by the deputy director in accordance with the procedure and on the grounds set forth in section three or eight, or may be terminated by voluntary surrender by the registrant. Upon t…

Section 6. The deputy director shall keep on file in convenient form and open to public inspection, all applications for registration and copies of certificates of registration issued and shall annually publish a list of names and addresses of all motor vehicle repair shops and m…

Section 7. Every registered motor vehicle repair shop and registered motor vehicle glass repair shop shall publicly display in its place of business its current certificate of registration. No unregistered motor vehicle repair shop or unregistered motor vehicle glass repair shop …

Section 8. No registered motor vehicle repair shop, registered motor vehicle glass repair shop or other person shall: (a) advertise for motor vehicle repair or motor vehicle glass repair in the commonwealth without including the number of its certificate of registration issued by…

Section 9. (a) Every registered motor vehicle repair shop and registered motor vehicle glass repair shop shall keep, or cause to be kept, in a book a proper record of every motor vehicle which enters and which leaves his place of business. A proper record shall include, but not b…

Section 1. The following words shall for the purposes of this chapter have the following meanings, unless the context requires otherwise:— ''Deputy director'', the deputy director of standards in the office of consumer affairs and business regulation. ''Promoter'', a business or …

Section 10. If a person liable for the license fee required by section five refuses or neglects to pay the same after demand by the clerk of the town in which he intends to sell goods, wares and merchandise, the clerk may maintain an action of contract therefor in his own name fo…

Section 11. Upon the expiration and return, or surrender before expiration, of each state license, the deputy director shall cancel the same, endorse the date of return or surrender thereon, and place the same on file. If a license is lost he may accept in lieu of the return or s…

Section 12. Each deposit made with the deputy director shall, during the term of the licensee's license and for sixty days after the return or surrender thereof or the filing of an affidavit of its loss, be subject to attachment and execution in behalf of any creditor of the lice…

Section 12A. The selectmen in a town or in a city such board or officer as may be designated by ordinance, may, under such conditions as they may deem proper, grant to any organization engaged in charitable work or to a post of any incorporated organization of veterans who served…

Section 13. Except as hereinafter expressly provided, the terms ''hawker'' and ''pedler'' as used in this chapter shall mean and include any person, either principal or agent, who goes from town to town or from place to place in the same town selling or bartering, or carrying for…

Section 14. A hawker or pedler who sells or barters or carries for sale or barter or exposes therefor any goods, wares or merchandise, except as permitted by this chapter, shall forfeit not more than two hundred dollars, to be equally divided between the commonwealth and the town…

Section 15. The provisions of this chapter relating to hawkers and peddlers shall not apply to wholesalers or jobbers selling to dealers only, nor to commercial agents or other persons selling by sample, lists, catalogues or otherwise for future delivery, nor to any dealer regula…

Section 16. The sale by hawkers or pedlers of jewelry, furs, wines or spirituous liquors, small artificial flowers or miniature flags is prohibited. This prohibition shall not apply to costume jewelry, so called, with a dollar value of not more than ten dollars per piece made by …

Section 16A. Any hawker or peddler who sells frozen desserts, as defined in section sixty-five G of chapter ninety-four, on or from a motor vehicle, shall equip such vehicle with a flashing amber dome light and front and rear warning lights which shall flash alternately and which…

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, regul…

Section 18. Articles other than those the sale of which is licensed, or permitted without a license, under the preceding section, and not prohibited by section sixteen, shall not be sold by hawkers or pedlers unless duly licensed as hereinafter provided.

Section 18A. Food manufactured and packaged for sale for consumption by a child under the age of two years, or a drug as defined in section one of chapter ninety-four shall not be offered for sale or sold at a flea market, so-called. Any person violating the provisions of this se…

Section 19. The aldermen or selectmen may make regulations consistent with the general laws relative to the exercise of the trade of bootblacking by minors, and to the sale or barter by minors of any goods, wares or merchandise the sale of which is permitted without a license by …

Section 2. The provisions of this chapter relative to transient vendors shall not apply to sales by commercial travelers or by selling agents to dealers in the usual course of business, or to bona fide sales of goods, wares or merchandise by sample for future delivery, or to sale…

Section 20. No person, having a minor under his control, shall knowingly permit such minor to violate any provision of section nineteen or any provision of section thirty-four, nor shall any person procure or employ a minor to commit any such violation, nor shall any person, eith…

Section 21. Whoever employs a minor in, or, having the care or custody of a minor, permits such minor to engage in, hawking or peddling without a permit or license, if one is required, or permits him to engage in selling door-to-door for future delivery without a certificate purs…