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purposes. Such persons shall pay an annual license tax at the <br />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 at the rate of twenty cents ($0.20) per <br />hundred dollars ($100.00) of gross receipts. This subclass- <br />ification shall include, but not be limited to: <br />(1) General retailers, including short-term rental <br />businesses, as defined in section 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 />permit 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 also pay an annual license tax, as to their retail sales of <br />twenty cents ($0.20) per hundred dollars ($100.00) of gross <br />receipts: <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 />retail customers is a peddler. Any person who does not keep a <br />regular place of business, with regular business hours, but at some <br />vacant lot or other place offers to sell goods, wares and <br />merchandise to retail customers, is a peddler. Any person who <br />keeps a regular place of business, with regular business hours at <br />the same place, who other than at that regular place of business, <br />personally or through agents offers for sale or sells and, at the <br />time of such offering for sale, delivers goods, wares and <br />merchandise to retail customers, is a peddler. <br />Every peddler operating in the city shall obtain and maintain <br />a current city business license and shall pay an annual <br />license tax of ninety dollars ($90.00) and a license issuance <br />fee of thirty-five dollars ($35.00), pursuant to section 14-13 <br />of this chapter. <br />Every vehicleused in peddling shall have conspicuously <br />displayed thereon the name of the peddler, together with the <br />street and number, city and state of his residence. <br />Any person selling or offering to sell as a peddler shall <br />• exhibit his license on demand of any citizen of this city; and <br />Page 23 of 34 <br />