§ 21. Regulation of businesses, trades and occupations.

The town council shall have full and exclusive power and authority, agreeable to the law, to license, regulate, authorize, police, control or prohibit theatrical exhibitions, merry-go-rounds, circuses, dance halls, skating rinks, swimming pools, marinas, fishing camps, shows and exhibitions of all kinds; automobiles, trucks, taxis, drays and public or private vehicles of all kinds; traveling vendors of ice cream and dairy products, medicines, soaps, lotions and all other like articles; hotels, motels, boarding houses, rooming houses, apartments, restaurants and lunch stands; fish stands or markets, meat markets, mercantile establishments, chain stores, laundries and dry cleaning establishments; billiard tables, pool tables or other kinds of tables, tenpins, shooting galleries and bowling alleys, slot machines or any games operated by "coin-in-slot" devices for carrying on games, as well as vending machines; generally, bakeries, dairies, barber and beauty shops, garage or motor vehicle repair shops, taxis, blacksmith shops, warehouses, storage facilities, auctioneers, peddlers and pawn brokers; all agents of real estate; all agents of fire, health, accident, indemnity, casualty, life and other insurance companies; the sale of all kinds of beverages, cigars, cigarettes and tobacco products; retailers of malt, vinous or spirituous liquors; dealers in and/or dispensers of gasoline either at wholesale or retail, from tanks or otherwise; and all businesses, occupations, professions, callings, trades or avocations which, under the laws of this State, are subject to license.