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the sale of any family supplies of a perishable nature not grown or produced by him shall be guilty • of a Class 1 misdemeanor. (5) No city license shall be required of persons offering items for sale in the officially established city market created pursuant to Chapter 8 of this Code; provided, that such persons shall first obtain from the city's 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 or transact 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 city business license before doing business in the city. The annual tax on such license shall be ninety dollars ($90.90) and there shall be a lieense issuanee f�e of thirty five doilars ($35.00). T+e aggregate fees and taxes so paid ($125.00) shall be pror •as provided by seetion 14 13 of this ehapte one hundred twenty five dollars ($125.00). (g) Subclassification E: Show and sale. Any organization certified as exempt from taxation pursuant to the United States Internal Revenue Code §501 (c)(3) may sponsor a show and sale in the city, after taking out a city business license as required by this seetion. The annual tax on such license shall be one hundred _ixt five della_s (5165 09) and there shall be ,. liee_se issuanee fee o 4ded by seetit)n 14 13 of this ehapter two hundred dollars ($200.00). 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 inserted for the purpose of purchasing any article of merchandise shall obtain a city business license and shall pay an annual license tax on the gross receipts derived from all such machines located in the city, computed at the rate applicable to retail merchants, as set forth in Sube1---="--tion " of this -__tion subsection (a), above. (2) No part of this section shall be construed to apply to pay telephones or to • Page 16 of 26