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NOTE: Please submit this completed form along with check or MO for $10 to the City Clerk’s Office, Room 3, 93 Washington Street, Salem, MA 01970 along with a self-addressed envelope. The Yard Sale Permit will be mailed back to you. You may also come into the office with your application and payment. Any questions, please call [PHONE REDACTED]. CITY OF SALEM YARD SALE APPLICATION License Fee: $10.00 Today’s Date: I, hereby make application to hold a Yard Sale at (Applicant or organization) on . (Location of yard sale) (2 consecutive days are allowed) (Name of applicant) (Address of applicant) Sidewalk and Yard Sales Sec. 34-121 License Required. It shall be unlawful for any person, transient merchant, church, club, charitable institution, hawker or peddler to vend, sell, dispose or offer to vend, sell, dispose or display any goods, wares, merchandise, produce or vegetables on any public walk, street, alley or anywhere within the city, on public or private property, without having first obtained a license from the City Clerk for that purpose and having paid a license fee therefor, as provided in this article. Sec. 34-122 Application for License. Application for a license to vend, sell, dispose, or display merchandise, goods, wares, produce or vegetables shall be made in writing to the City Clerk. The application shall contain the name of the applicant, if an individual; the names of the partners, if a copartnership; or the names of the principal officers, if a corporation, church, club or charitable institution, and shall include the location of the place where such merchandise, goods, wares, produce or vegetables are to be so displayed and sold. Sec. 34-123 License Fee; Term of License. The fee to be charged for the application for the license required by this article shall be $10.00. No license shall be valid for more than two days. No license shall be valid for more than two days. No license shall be granted at the same premises more than twice in a calendar year. Sec. 34-124 Obstruction of Streets or Alleys; Conduct of Sale. No street or alley shall be blocked by any merchandise offered for sale under this article. A two-foot passageway for pedestrians shall be left open, and merchandise shall be securely and adequately placed so that it will not endanger passersby or fall or extrude into any street or alley. Such sales shall not be operated in any manner that would cause a nuisance or create a fire hazard. Sec. 34-125 Inspections. The Chief of Police and the Chief of the Fire Department shall make or cause to be made sufficient inspections to ensure the compliance with this article and other applicable sections of this Code or City Ordinances by the personnel conducting such sales. Sec. 34-126 Penalty for Violation of Article. Any person violating any section of this article shall be fined $25.00 for the first violation, $50.00 for the second violation, and $100.00 for the third and subsequent violation. A separate offense shall be deemed committed on each day during or on which a violation occurs or continues. Sec. 34-127 Enforcement. The police department shall have cause to enforce this article.