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retail customers is a peddler. Any person who does not keep a regular place of business, with regular business hours, but at some • vacant lot or other place offers to sell goods, wares and merchandise to retail customers, is a peddler. Any person who keeps a regular place of business, with regular business hours at the same place, who other than at that regular place of business, personally or through agents offers for sale or sells and, at the time of such offering for sale, delivers goods, wares and merchandise to retail customers, is a peddler. Every peddler operating in the city shall obtain and maintain a current city business license and shall pay an annual license tax of fifty dellars ($S9.99) one hundred twenty five dollars ($125.00). Every vehicle used in peddling shall have conspicuously displayed thereon the name of the peddler, together with the street and number, city and state of his residence. Any person selling or offering to sell as a peddler shall exhibit his license on demand of any citizen of this city; and upon his failure or refusal to do so, he shall be subject to the penalties for doing business without a license. The word "peddler" or peddlers," as used in this section, shall be construed as including their bona fide employees. • This subsection shall not apply to wholesale merchants regularly licensed by the city and who shall at the same time sell and deliver merchandise to retail merchants. (e) Same - Exemptions. (1) Notwithstanding the foregoing, no city license shall be required of peddlers of wood, meat, milk, butter, eggs, poultry, fish, oysters, game, vegetables, fruit or other family supplies of a perishable nature grown or produced by them and not purchased by them for sale. (2) All peddlers of family supplies of a perishable nature grown or produced by them and not purchased for sale shall annually file with the commissioner of revenue a certificate in duplicate under oath in which shall be given the name and post office address of the applicant, the location of the land on which the family supplies of a perishable nature are produced or are to be produced, whether the applicant is the owner thereof or renter, and in the latter case, the name of the landlord or owner and the time from which and to which the lease is to run. (3) Upon receipt of such certificate and such other evidence under oath as may be sufficient to establish the fact that the applicant is entitled to the certificate, the • commissioner of revenue shall endorse on one (1) copy of such certificate the fact and date of its filing and -2-