RUSS FOX
SOUTHWICK – Residents planning to host tag sales should make sure they have not already hosted two sales this past year.
The Select Board Tuesday revised the town’s tag sale permit form to include language stating that tag sales cannot be hosted in a particular location more than twice a year. Selectman Russell Fox said the wording was always on the forms in the past.
“Somewhere along the line it disappeared,” Fox said.
Fox noted that many years ago a list of tag sale permits was generated on Fridays and distributed to the police and Select Board for enforcement.
The discussion was generated by a recent incident, the details of which were not disclosed during the Oct. 1 meeting.
Selectman Douglas Moglin was concerned about changing the form without having an ordinance or other bylaw in place.
Fox said he believes it exists by a past Town Meeting vote.
Select Board Administrative Assistant Cindy Pendleton said it is in the Town Code, a copy of which is stapled to every tag sale permit.
Chief Administrative Officer Karl Stinehart said without enforcement, multiple tag sales at one location “becomes a defacto flea market.”
The Board unanimously agreed to replace the language limiting the number of tag sales and would do further research of the Town Code.
