License

M.G.L. OR Code of the Town of Foxborough

(Chapter & Section)

Expiration

Date (12/31 if not noted)

Internal Department Comments or Approvals

Currently Approved by Local Licensing Authority

Alcoholic Beverages (sale/manufacture) (Restaurant/Club/Innholder/Farmer Pouring/Package Store)

138 – Section 2

 

TMO, Finance, Fire, Building, Health, Police

X – Select Board

Auctioneers

100 - Section 2

 

 

X – Select Board

Automatic Amusement Devices & Arcade

140 - Section 177A 

 

TMO, Building, Health, Fire

X – Select Board

Automobile “graveyards”

140 - Section 54A 

 

TMO, Building, Health, Fire

 

Automobiles: Class I, new car dealer

140 - Section 58
140 - Section 59

 

Building, Health, Fire

X – Select Board

Automobiles: Class II, used car dealer

140 - Section 58
140 - Section 59

 

TMO, Building, Health, Fire

X – Select Board

Automobiles: Class III, junkyard

140 - Section 58
140 - Section 59 

 

TMO, Building, Health, Fire

X – Select Board

Billiards, Pool, Sippio Table, Bowling Alleys

140 - Section 177

4/30

TMO, Building, Health, Fire, Police

X – Select Board

Board and Lodging Houses

140 - Section 23 

 

TMO, Building, Health, Fire, Police

 

Boats (rental)

140 - Section 194

 

 

 

Boats: conveyance of passengers

140 - Section 191

 

 

 

Body Art

111 - Section 31

 

Building, Health, Fire

 

Canvasser & Solicitor

Code of the Town of Foxborough – Chapter 184 

 

Police

 

Clubs, Associations dispensing food or beverage to members

140 - Section 21E

 

Building, Health, Fire, Police

X – Select Board

Coffee and Tea Houses

140 - Section 47

 

Building, Health, Fire

 

Common Victuallers, restaurants (triggers only if seats in the establishment)

140 - Section 2

 

Building, Health, Fire, Police

X – Select Board

Dancing Schools

140 - Section 185H

 

TMO, Building, Health, Fire

 

Dangerous Animals

Code of the Town of Foxborough – Chapter 78

 

Animal Control

X – Select Board

Earth Removal

Code of the Town of Foxborough – Chapter 115

 

TMO, Building, Fire, Conservation, Health, DPW

X – Select Board

Entertainment on Common day of rest, holidays

136 - Section 4

 

TMO, Building, Health, Fire, Police

 

Entertainment provided by innholder or Common Victualler (Annual)

140 - Section 183A

 

TMO, Building, Health, Fire, Police

X – Select Board

Explosive and Inflammable Material Storage

148 - Section 13

 

TMO, Building, Health, Fire, Police, DPW

X – Select Board

Ferris Wheels

140 - Section 186

 

TMO, Building, Health, Fire, Police

 

Food Vehicles, lunch carts

140 - Section 49

 

Health, Fire

 

Fortune Tellers

140 - Section 185I 

 

TMO, Police

 

Furnaces and Steam Engines

140 - Section 115

 

TMO, Building, Fire, Health, Police

 

Hackney

 

 

Police

 

Hawkers, transient vendors

101 - Section 5
101 - Section 17

 

Police, Commonwealth of MA

 

Junk Collectors or Dealers

140 - Section 54 and
Code of the Town of Foxborough Chapter 151

 

TMO, Police, Building, Health, Fire

 

Innholders

 


 

 

140 - Section 2

 


 

TMO, Building, Health, Fire, Police

 

Lodging Houses

140 - Section 2330

 

Building, Health, Fire

 

Movie Theater

140 - Section 181

 

TMO, Building, Fire, Health

X – Select Board

One Day (All Alcohol/Beer Wine/Auctioneer/Entertainment)

 

 

TMO, Building, Fire, Health, Police

X – Select Board

Parking Lots

148 - Section 56

 

TMO, Building, Fire, Police, DPW

X – Select Board

Pawnbrokers

140 - Section 70

 

TMO, Police

 

Picnic Groves

140 - Section 188

 

Police, Fire, DPW

 

Pole Location Permits for Utilities

166 -- Section 22

 

TMO, Building, DPW

X – Select Board

Sales of Articles for Charitable Purposes

101 - Section 33

 

As Applicable

 

Shooting Galleries

140 - Section 56a

 

TMO, Building, Health, Fire, Police

 

Signs Projected over Public Ways

85 - Section 8

 

TMO, Building, Fire, Police, DPW

 

Skating Rinks

140 - Section 186

 

TMO, Building, Health, Fire

 

Soft Drinks

140 - Section 21a140 - Section 21b

 

Health

 

Stadium (Events/Concerts/Football/Soccer)

 

 

TMO, Building, Police, Fire, Health, Stadium Advisory Committee

X – Select Board

Taxicab/Limousine

 

 

TMO, Police

X – Select Board

Theatrical Events, Public exhibition

140 - Section 181

 

TMO, Building, Health, Fire, Police, DPW

 

* Finance Department shall have access to all applications needed to confirm the applicant is up to date on taxes owed to the Town Foxborough.

Legend

TMO

Town Managers Office

OTHER SELECT BOARD FUNCTIONS

License

Code of the Town of Foxborough

Internal Department Comments or Approvals

License

Reason

Dangerous Animals

Chapter 78

Animal Control

X – Select Board

Order of restraint, Appeal of an order from Animal Control

Junk Dealer

Chapter 151

TMO, Police, Building, Health, Fire

 

 

Scenic Roadway

Chapter 202

DPW

 

Determination of scenic roadway

Sewers

Chapter 210

DPW, Water and Sewer, Health

 

Illicit connections

Solid Waste

Chapter 224

TMO, DPW, Health

 

Ability to adopt recycling regulations

Stadium Regulations

Chapter 229

TMO, Police, Fire, Building, Health, Stadium Advisory Committee

X – Select Board

Public Entertainment License