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riod exceeding one week to be based upon the per annum li-
<br />cense fee; provided, however, that when such exhibition is
<br />given for benevolent, charitable or educational purposes and is
<br />given for a period of more than a week in any year and the ex-
<br />hibitor thereof receives a part of the receipts from such exhibi-
<br />tion as his compensation, then such exhibition, after the first
<br />week shall not be exempt from the payment of the license fee
<br />herein prescribed; and where the admission exceeds 50 cents
<br />the license tax as prescribed in Sec. 111 shall apply.
<br />8 0. , Oculists.
<br />See § 14.
<br />81. Oils -Gasoline, etc.
<br />Any person, firm or corporation, whose place of business is
<br />without the corporate limits of the city, who shall engage in
<br />the business of selling to wholesale or to both wholesale and re-
<br />tail merchants in this city gasoline, kerosene oil or other oil shall
<br />pay a license tax of $200.00.
<br />82. Opticians.
<br />See § 14.
<br />83. Patent Medicines.
<br />On every license to a person to sell patent medicines or other
<br />such articles, whether manufactured in this or any other state
<br />or territory, shall be paid a license tax of $155 per day or $75.00
<br />per week ; provided this tax shall not apply to any person pay-
<br />ing merchants license tax.
<br />84. Pawnbrokers.
<br />On every license to a pawnbroker, the specific license tax
<br />shall be one hundred dollars ($100) for one year or fractional
<br />part thereof. Not transferable.
<br />85. Peanut and Popcorn Venders.
<br />On street venders of peanuts and popcorn the license tax
<br />shall be ten dollars ($10). No pro rata.
<br />8 6. Peddlers.
<br />Any person acting as peddler, as defined by the State haws
<br />of Virginia, shall pay a license tax of $150. Not transferable.
<br />No pro rata.
<br />87. Physicians.
<br />See § 14
<br />88. Planing Mill and Sash, Blind and Door Factory.
<br />On every license to a person or firm conducting a planing
<br />Mill, the tax shall be fifty dollars ($50) .
<br />On every person or firm carrying on a sash, blind and door
<br />factory, the tax shall be thirty-five dollars ($35).
<br />But if a person or firm conduct a sash, door and blind fac-
<br />tory in combination with a planing mill, the tax shall be seventy-
<br />five dollars ($75).
<br />89. Plumbers.
<br />On every license to a plumber the tax shall be twenty-five
<br />dollars ($25). This section shall apply to all persons, firms
<br />or corporations who do plumbing, gas -fitting, steam and hot
<br />water heating.
<br />90. Pop -Manufacture and Sale.
<br />On every license to any person or firm to conduct the busi-
<br />ness of manufacturing or bottling pop, ginger ale, or other
<br />aerated waters, the tax shall be fifty dollars ($50.00).
<br />91. Private Bankers.
<br />Every person, firm or corporation conducting the business
<br />Of private banker as defined by the State Tax Laws, shall pay a
<br />license tax of $100 per year.
<br />92. Private Entertainment.
<br />Private entertainment (thirty rooms or less), tax $5.00 and
<br />$1.00 additional for each room in excess of 10.
<br />This section shall be construed to apply to all keepers of what
<br />are known as "boarding houses" accepting boarders or lodgers
<br />for less than one week, as defined by the State License Law gov-
<br />erning "houses of private entertainment."
<br />9 3. Publishers.
<br />On every non-resident person, firm or corporation publish-
<br />ing a city directory, book, pamphlet, fire alarm or telephone
<br />directory, theatrical program, display card, desk blotter, hotel
<br />register or any other medium or device, other than regular
<br />newspapers or periodicals entered at the Charlottesville post -
<br />office as second-class matter, used or employed for advertis-
<br />ing matter of any kind other than that of the person, firm or
<br />corporation issuing the same, shall pay a special license tax of
<br />twenty-five dollars ($25).
<br />94. Restaurants.
<br />See Eating Houses.
<br />95. Retailers of Tobacco, Snuff, etc.
<br />No person not a producer shall be allowed to sell by retail
<br />tobacco, snuff, cigars, or cigarettes, without having obtained a
<br />specific license to do so.
<br />The sum to be paid by retailers of tobacco, snuff, cigars or
<br />cigarettes shall be for said privilege a specific tax of five dol-
<br />lars ($5), which shall be assessed and collected as other assess-
<br />ments upon license, but which shall not be in lieu of merchants'
<br />license on purchases,
<br />This section shall be construed to require of any person tak-
<br />ing out this special license tax to sell tobacco, snuff, cigars or
<br />cigarettes a merchants' license in addition thereto based on
<br />amount of purchases.
<br />96. Sample Merchants or Agents.
<br />Any person selling to consumers by sample, card or repre-
<br />sentation, or selling or taking orders for any article other than
<br />from merchants or other persons dealing in the articles so sold,
<br />shall pay a license tax of fifteen dollars ($15) for each day he
<br />barters or sells in this city.
<br />97. Shoemakers.
<br />On every person or firm conducting a shop for the repair
<br />or manufacture of shoes, boots, etc., the license tax shall be
<br />$2.50 for each bench without machine; with machine $10 for
<br />each bench.
<br />98. Shooting Gallery.
<br />On every license to keep a shooting gallery, the tax shall be
<br />$10 per month. Not transferable. No pro rata.
<br />99. Shows, Circuses, etc.
<br />On a circus, menagerie, tent show, or other such like exhibi-
<br />tion or performance, within the corporate limits of the city or
<br />within one mile of the same, whether combined or separate, the
<br />license tax shall be seventy-five dollars ($75) for the first per-
<br />formance or exhibition, and thirty-five dollars ($35) for each
<br />additional performance or exhibition.
<br />On a side show attached to or exhibiting with any circus, me-
<br />nagerie, tent show or other such like exhibition or performance
<br />within the corporate limits of the city or within one mile of the
<br />same, (lie license tax shall be twenty dollars ($20) for each
<br />performance or exhibition.
<br />No license shall he issued to any circus, menagerig, tent show,
<br />or other such like exhibition or performance unless and until
<br />the price of admissions and of seats shall have been previously
<br />generally published.
<br />100. Skating Rink.
<br />On every license to the proprietor or occupier of a room
<br />fitted up or used for roller skating purposes, the tax shall be
<br />fifty dollars ($50) . No pro rata. Not transferable.
<br />101. Slot Machines.
<br />Any person, firm or corporation having on a street, alley or
<br />other public place or in shops, stores, hotels, boarding houses,
<br />depots, public or private rooms, or any other place anywhere in
<br />the City a slot machine of any description into which are dropped
<br />coins to dispose of any article of merchandise or for the purpose
<br />of operating musical or other devices that operate on the coin -
<br />in -the -slot principle, used for gain, except as a pay telephone,
<br />shall pay for every such slot machine or musical or other device
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