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• (5) No city license shall be required of persons offering items for sale in the officially established city market created pursuant to Chapter S of this Code; provided, that such persons shall first obtain from the department of parks and recreation a producer's certificate pursuant to the provisions of this section for sale at the city market and at no other place. Such certificate may include farm produce, food stuffs, art work or handicrafts grown or produced by the seller, members of his family or farm laborers employed by the seller, and not purchased by the seller for resale. Such certificates shall be used by the producers themselves and shall in no case be transferable to any third parties. The Commissioner of Revenue is authorized to delegate to the department of parks and recreation the authority to issue such certificates only for use at the city market. (f) Subclassification D: Itinerants. All persons, whether principal, agent or salesman, who engage in any temporary or transient business in the city in one (1) or more places and who, for the purpose of carrying, on such business, occupies any location for a period of less than a year, are itinerant merchants. All persons bringing to and exhibiting for sale to consumers at retail in the city, in trucks, in temporary places or fixed places of • sale, goods or merchandise of any character as bankrupt, consignee, trustee, railroad wreck, fire, slaughter stock, leftover, exposition stock or stock of like nature are distressed merchandise vendors. Every itinerant merchant and distressed merchandise vendor shall obtain a license before doing business in the city. The annual tax on such license shall be ninety dollars ($90.00) and there shall be a license issuance fee of thirty five dollars ($35.00). The aggregate fees and taxes so paid ($125.00) shall be prorated as provided by section 14-13 of this chapter. (g) Subclassification E: Show and sale. Any organization certified as exempt from taxation pursuant to the United States Internal Revenue Code may sponsor a show and sale in the city, after taking out a license as required by this section. The annual tax on such license shall be one hundred sixty five dollars ($165.00) and there shall be a license issuance fee of thirty five dollars ($35.00). The aggregate fees and taxes so paid ($200.00) shall be prorated as provided by section 14-13 of this chapter. A license issued under this section shall be in lieu of an itinerant merchant's license which would be otherwise required of any seller who participates in such show and sale under the sponsorship of such organization. (h) Subclassification F: Coin-operated retail. • (1) Any person owning or placing in the city any machines of any description into which coins are Page 25 of 34