Panel votes to cut slaughterhouse, keg license rules

Select Board · Meeting of June 11, 2026

NORTH ADAMS — The Codification Review Committee recommended deleting the slaughterhouse license in Section 12-10 and the keg license sections, 12-13.2 through 12-13.7, with three ayes on each vote. Members also approved wording fixes across Chapter 12, including a switch to a "Department of Inspection Services" for lodging house and tag sale inspections and moving a $100 tag sale fine to Appendix D. The committee raised the tobacco age in Chapter 14 from 18 to 21 and added vape, and referred Chapter 13 and the firearms section to the administration. The mayor said the fee language in Section 12-2 was too broad, because "all of the departments collect fees." That item was held over to the next meeting.

In the full story:

• Meeting setup and Chapter 11, Library
• Chapter 12, Licenses and Permits: fees
• Auctioneers, billiards and pawnbrokers
• Slaughterhouses and lodging houses
• Keg licenses
• Chapter 13, Motor Vehicles and Traffic
• Chapter 14, Offenses
• Scheduling
• Who Was There
• Organizations And Documents Referenced
• The complete report: 1,381 words

Source: the Select Board meeting of June 11, 2026, reported from the official video recording and transcript.

Checked against the record: before publication this article was automatically compared with the meeting transcript.