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Bylaws
TAX COLLECTOR, LICENSING
The Town of West Tisbury may deny any application for or revoke or suspend any local license or permit including renewals and transfers issued by any board, officer, department for any person, corporation or business enterprise who has neglected or refused to pay any local taxes, fees, assessments, betterments or any other municipal charges.
The tax collector or other municipal official responsible for records of all municipal taxes, assessments, betterments and other municipal charges, hereinafter referred to as the tax collector, shall annually furnish to each department, board, commission, or division, hereinafter referred to as the licensing authority, that issues licenses or permits including renewals and transfers, a list of any person, corporation, or business enterprise, hereinafter referred to as the party, that has neglected or refused to pay any local taxes, fees, assessments, betterments or other municipal charges for not less than a twelve month period, and that such party has not filed in good faith a pending application for an abatement of such tax or a pending petition before the appellate tax board.
The licensing authority may deny, revoke or suspend any license or permit, including renewals and transfers of any party whose name appears on said list furnished to the licensing authority from the tax collector; provided, however, that written notice is given to the party and the tax collector, as required by applicable provisions of law, and the party is given a hearing, to be held not earlier than fourteen days after said notice. Said list shall be prima facie evidence for denial, revocation or suspension of said license or permit to any party. The tax collector shall have the right to intervene in any hearing conducted with respect to such license denial, revocation or suspension. Any findings made by the licensing authority with respect to such license denial, revocation or suspension shall be made only for the purposes of such proceeding and shall not be relevant to or introduced in any other proceeding at law, except for any appeal from such license denial, revocation or suspension. Any license or permit denied, suspended or revoked under this by-law shall not be reissued or renewed until the license authority receives a certificate issued by the tax collector that the party is in good standing with respect to any and all local taxes, fees, assessments, betterments or other municipal charges, payable to the municipality as the date of issuance of said certificate.
Any party shall be given an opportunity to enter into a payment agreement, thereby allowing the licensing authority to issue a certificate indicating said limitations to the license or permit; provided, however, that the holder be given notice as required by applicable provisions of law.
The Board of Selectmen may waive such denial, suspension or revocation if it finds there is no direct or indirect business interest by the property owner, its officers or stockholders, if any, or members of his immediate family, as defined in Section one of Chapter two hundred and sixty-eight A in the business or activity conducted in or on said property.
This by-law shall not apply to the following licenses and permits:
Open burning, Section thirteen of Chapter eighty-five; sales of articles for charitable purposes, Section thirty-three of Chapter one hundred and one; children work permits, Section sixty-nine of Chapter one hundred and forty-nine; clubs, associations dispensing food or beverage licenses, Section twenty-one E of Chapter one hundred and forty; dog licenses, Section one hundred and thirty-seven of Chapter one hundred and forty; fishing, hunting, trapping licenses, Section twelve of Chapter one hundred and thirty-one; marriage licenses, Section twenty-eight of Chapter two hundred and seven; and theatrical events, public exhibition permits, Section one hundred and eighty-one of Chapter one hundred and forty.