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512 101. Snack or Lunch Counters. On every person conducting a snack or lunch counter, the li- cense tax shall be ten dollars ($10.00) per year or two dollars ($2.00) per day. This shall include an operator of a toasting machine. 102. Soda Fountains. The specific license tax on every soda fountain shall be twenty dollars '($20) for one year or fractional part thereof. 103. Stand—Fruit Juice. On every stand for the sale of uncarbonated fruit juice drinks the license tax shall be $10.00 each for the first three stands and $5.00 for each additional stand. This tax shall not be required where such stands are operated in connection with a soda foun- tain. ' 104. Street Venders or Merchants. On every person, whether manufacturer or not, selling upon the street or other public places, inflated balloons, plaster fig- ures, toys, jewelry and other small articles, the license tax shall be $10 per day. The Mayor shall, if he deem it necessary, des- ignate the place of sale, or refuse the license. This section shall not apply to employees of a circus. 105. Storing and Impounding. On every license to a person or firm to keep, for compensa- tion, any house, yard or lot for storage, or other impounding, the tax shall be ten dollars ($10) on each house, yard or lot. 106. Surgeons. See § 13. 107. Surveyors. See § 13. 108. Tailors and Cutters. Each person or firm conducting the business of tailoring or selling suits or dresses by sample shall be deemed a merchant and subject to § 72 of this ordinance. 109. Telegraph Companies. On telegraph companies or agents each for business done between this and other points within the State of Virginia, and not including any business done to or from points without the state, and not including business in which messages al- though to or from points within this state, pass through ter- ritory without this state, and not including any business done for the government of the United States, its officers or agents, a license tax of one hundred dollars shall be paid. Provided that any company taxed under this section whose receipts do not exceed three thousand dollars ($3,000) per annum, the tax shall be fifty dollars ($50). 110. Telephone Companies. On each telephone company the license tax shall be one per cent. on the gross receipts of such company. The gross receipts on which percentage is charged shall include all phone service known as mutual, all revenues derived from long distance serv- ice, and all moneys derived from the use of the switch board by local lines, expressly excepting business done between this city and points without the state, and messages sent to or received by the government of the United States or this state or their agents or officers. This license tax shall be assessable and payable in like man- ner as that of the State. 111. Theatres and Public Rooms. On every proprietor of a public or private building kept or used exclusively for any theatrical or similar performance, panorama or public exhibition, variety show or other enter- tainment (whether any charge is made for admission thereto or not), the license tax shall be one hundred dollars ($100) per year. Houses paying the tax as prescribed in either section 80 or 112 shall not be subject to this tax. 118, Theatricals. On every theatrical performance or any performance similar thereto, panorama or any public performance or exhibition of any kind there shall be paid five dollars ($5.00) for each per- formance or fifteen dollars ($15.00) per week of a continuous performance, except for charitable, educational, or benevolent purposes. 113. Trading Stamps. The specific license tax on every person, firm or corpora- tion, whether acting for himself or as an agent for another, to engage in selling trading stamps, of another device for the same purpose, to any persons, firms or incorporated companies doing business in this city, shall be two hundred and fifty dol- lars ($250), payable in advance, and in addition thereto, a tax of $250 on any person, firm or corporation using them. 114. Typewriting and Adding Machines and Cash Reg- isters. Any person or firm, other than a regular licensed merchant. selling in this city cash registers, typewriting and adding ma- chines, shall pay a specific license tax of twenty dollars ($20) for one year. No pro rata. - 116. Undertakers. An undertaker shall pay for the privilege of transacting such business a special license tax of one hundred dollars ($100) ; provided that if the gross receipts of the business do not exceed five thousand dollars the tax 'shall be fifty dollars ($50). 116. Vehicles. On every two -horse hack, phaeton, omnibus or dray used for hire, ten dollars ($10.00). On every one-horse buggy, phaeton, surrey, dray, used for hire, five dollars ($5). On every two -horse wagon or dray, with or without springs, used for hire, eight dollars ($8). On every one-horse wagon, dray or cart, used for hire, six dollars ($6). Every owner of Motor Driven Vehicles for hire shall pay $20.00 for the first vehicle and $15.00 for each additional car. Any person desiring to surrender a license for a one-horse vehicle and have issued therefor license for a two -horse ve- hicle, shall be entitled to a credit for the unexpired part of the license surrendered. Any person, non-resident, hauling goods, or letting his ve- hicle or vehicles out for hire on the public streets of this city, shall be held liable under this ordinance. Every licensed carriage, hack, wagon or other vehicle, shall have its license number plainly marked on metal or other ma- terial and placed on the rear face of the rear axle thereof, or other conspictious place. This paragraph not to apply to vehicles rented without driver. Such license number shall be supplied by the Commissioner of Revenue. It shall be unlawful to transfer a tag from one vehicle to another, except in case of a vehicle being temporarily disabled. The Chief of Police is hereby designated Wagon Inspector and it shall be his duty to see that all vehicles for which a li- cense is required under this section shall have their numbers properly displayed, and if any vehicle be found without such number it shall be his duty to ascertain the name of the owner and require said license to be procured under penalty as pro- vided in the general provisions of this ordinance. And in all cases where the number is not properly displayed the delinquent shall be fined not less than $1.50 nor more than $5.00. In the discharge of the duty thus imposed the Chief of Police shall have authority to call to his aid the several members of his force. 117. Vehicles—Motor-Driven. Every owner of a motor -driven vehicle on or before the first day of May of each year or before he shall commence to operate his machine, shall obtain a license to operate the same by making application to the City Collector for a license to operate and present State motor vehicle registration card. The application must contain the name of the applicant, his residence, and if a corporation, its place of business, giving the name, fac- tory number, if any, fixed by its maker, a brief description show- ing the style of the machine, and weight, as computed by the provisions of the State law now in force or in accordance with any modifications that hereafter may be made by the State. After making application, and having paid into the treasury of the City the required license tax fee, the City Collector shall is- sue a certificate of registration and license. The method for ascertaining the required license tax shall be the same as that provided for in the State law except the rate shall be as fol- lows: ol- lows: 20c. per 100 lbs. or major portion thereof. Minimum fee $4.50 per vehicle. Trucks: 1 ton or less, $5.00. Trucks: 1/ ton, $7.50. Trucks: 2 tons, $10.OQ.