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• (b) No business license under this chapter shall be issued until the applicant has produced satisfactory evidence that all delinquent business license, personal property, meals, transient occupancy, and daily rental taxes owed by the business to the city have been paid. (c) Any person who engages in a business without obtaining the required business license, or after being refused a license, shall not be relieved of the license issuance fee or license imposed by this chapter. (d) If any person shall commence to engage in any business, employment or profession licensable under this chapter without first obtaining such license, such person shall be guilty of a Class I misdemeanor. Such conviction thereof shall not relieve any such person from the payment of the license issuance fee or license tax prescribed by this chapter. If such violation is continued for one month, such person shall be subject to a penalty of ten (10) percent of the amount due under this chapter. Such penalty shall be assessed and paid along with the license fee and tax and shall become a part of the license tax and shall be enforced in the manner provided by the law for the enforcement of the collection of other taxes. (e) If the Commissioner of Revenue has knowledge of a violation of this section, it shall be his duty to cause the person • in violation to be summoned before him to obtain the required license, or to cause such person to be summoned before the general district court to be tried for the violation, or both. The duty herein imposed on the Commissioner shall not relieve the police force of the city from the general duty of enforcing the provisions of this chapter or any other ordinance of the city. Section 14-4. Exceptions. (a) No license issuance fee or license tax shall be imposed or levied: 1. On any public service corporation, except as provided in Section 58.1-3731, Code of Virginia (1950), as amended, or as permitted by other provisions of state law; 2. For selling farm or domestic products or nursery products, ornamental or otherwise, or for the planting of nursery products, as an incident to the sale thereof, outside of the regular market houses and sheds of the city; provided, such products are grown or produced by the person offering such products for sale; 3. Upon the privilege or right of printing or publishing any newspaper, magazine, newsletter or other publication issued daily or regularly at average intervals not • exceeding three months, provided the publication's subscriptions sales are exempt from state sales tax, or Page 7 of 34