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AN ORDINANCE <br />• AMENDING AND REORDAINING SECTION 14-49 <br />OF CHAPTER 14 OF THE CHARLOTTESVILLE CITY CODE, 1990, <br />AS AMENDED, CHANGING THE BUSINESS LICENSE TAX <br />FOR PEDDLERS AND ITINERANT MERCHANTS. <br />BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City of Charlottesville, <br />Virginia, that: <br />1. Section 14-49 of Article II of 'Chapter 14 of the <br />Charlottesville City Code, 1990, as amended, is hereby amended and <br />reordained as follows: <br />Sec. 14-49. Class II: Retail merchants. <br />(a) Generally. Any person making sales of goods, wares or <br />merchandise for any purpose other than resale, but not including <br />sales to institutional, commercial and industrial users, is a <br />retail merchant and is classified as a class II business for <br />license tax purposes. Such persons shall pay an annual license tax <br />at the rates hereinafter set forth. <br />(b) Subclassification A. Retail merchants having regular <br />places of business within the city shall pay an annual license tax <br />for each place of business of twenty-five dollars ($25.00) on the <br />• first two thousand dollars ($2,000.00) of gross receipts or <br />fraction thereof, and twenty cents per hundred dollars of gross <br />receipts in excess of two thousand dollars ($2,000.00). This <br />subclassification shall include, but not be limited to: <br />(1) General retailers, including short-term rental businesses, <br />as defined in section 39 416 30-316 of this Code. <br />(2) Junk dealers. <br />(3) Opticians. <br />(4) Restaurants. <br />The commissioner of the revenue shall not issue a business license <br />for a restaurant until the owner or operator has presented a valid <br />license from the health department, issued pursuant to Code of <br />Virginia, Chapter 3 of Title 35.1. <br />(c) Subclassification B. The following types of businesses <br />shall pay an annual license tax, as to their retail sales, of <br />twenty-five dollars on the first two thousand dollars of gross <br />receipts or fraction thereof, and twenty cents per one hundred <br />dollars of gross receipts in excess of two thousand dollars: <br />(1) Bakeries. <br />(2) Printers. <br />(d) Subclassification C: Peddlers - Generally. Any person <br />• who carries from place to place any goods, wares or merchandise and <br />offers to sell or actually sells and delivers at the same time to <br />-1- <br />