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<br />AN ORDINANCE AMIF DING AND RE-ENACTING SECTION 85 OF THE LID IN SE CODE
<br />REQUIRING A LICENSE ON PEDDLERS.
<br />BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City of Charlottesville that Section 85 of the License
<br />Code be re-enacted so as to read as follows:
<br />85 (a) Peddlers: -
<br />Any person who shall carry from place to place, any goods, wares, or mer-
<br />chandise , and offer to sell or barter the same, or actually sell or barter the
<br />same, shall be deemed to be a peddler, and any person licensed as a peddler may
<br />sell any personal property a merchant may sell, or he may exchange the same for
<br />other articles.
<br />A peddlers license shall not be transferable, and any person so licensed
<br />shall endorse his name on said license, and such license shall confer authority
<br />to sell within the City of Charlottesville.
<br />Any peddler who shall peddle for sale or sell or barter without a license
<br />shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction thereof shall be fined not less
<br />than twenty-five dollars, and not more than one hundred dollars for each offense;
<br />and any person selling or offering to sell as a peddler shall exhibit his license
<br />on demand of any citizen of this city; and upon his failure or refusal to do so he
<br />shall be subject to the penalties for peddling without a license.
<br />All persons who do not keep a regular place of business (whether it be a house
<br />or a vacant lot, or elsewhere), open at all times in regular business hours and at
<br />the same place, who shall offer for sale goods, wares and merchandise, shall be
<br />deemed peddlers under this section. All persons who keep a regular place of busi-
<br />ness, open at all times in regular business hours and at the same place, who shall
<br />elsewhere than at such regular place of business, personally, or through their
<br />agents, offer for sale or sell, and at -the time of such offering for sale, deliver
<br />goods, wares and merchandise, shall also be deemed peddlers as above; but this sec-
<br />tion shall not apply to those who sell or offer for sale in person or by their em-
<br />ployees, ice, wood, meats, milk, butter, eggs, poultry, fish, oysters, game, vege-
<br />tables, fruits, or other family supplies of a perishable nature grown or produced
<br />by them and not purchased by them for sale.
<br />For the privilege of peddling or bartering in the City of Charlottesville, there
<br />shall be paid one hundred dollars for each person so engaged or employed in the City
<br />of Charlottesville, when he travels on foot, and when he peddles otherwise than on
<br />foot, the tax shall be two hundred dollars, except that tax on peddlers of ice, wood,
<br />meat, milk, butter, eggs, poultry, fish, oysters, game, vegetables, fruits or other
<br />family supplies of a perishable nature not grown or produced by them, shall be fifty
<br />' dollars for each vehicle used in such peddling in the City of Charlottesville.
<br />Every vehicle used in peddling as aforesaid shall have conspicuously displayed
<br />thereon the name of the peddler using the same, together with the street and number,
<br />city and state, of his residence.
<br />Nothing in this section shall be construed to require of any farmer a peddlers
<br />license for the privilege of selling or peddling farm products, wood, or charcoal
<br />grown or produced by him.
<br />Every license issued under this section shall expire on the thirtieth day of
<br />April of each year. No license issued under this section shall be prorated.
<br />The license taxes imposed by this subsection shall not apply to any peddler who
<br />is covered by subsection b of this section, and who sells to licensed dealers or re-
<br />tailers only.
<br />85 (b) Peddlers of Goods, ochres or Merchandise Who Sell to Licensed Dealers or Re-
<br />tailers•-
<br />Every person, firm or corporation claiming to be a distributor and/or vendor of
<br />motor vehicle fuels and petroleum products, a farmer, a dealer in forest products or
<br />tobacco, or seafood, a producer, or a manufacturer taxable on capital by the state of
<br />Virginia, and selling and delivering at the same time, or offering to sell and deliver
<br />at the same time, to licensed dealers or retailers, such goods, wares or merchandise,
<br />shall, upon request of any police, tax or revenue officer, furnish evidence of his or
<br />its claim other than his or its more statement, that he or it is exempt from the pro-
<br />vision of t'ais subsection, and failure to furnish such evidence shall be sufficient
<br />ground for charging the person operating the vehicle with the violation of this sub-
<br />section; and in any prosecution for a violation of this subsection, the claim afore-
<br />said must be corroborated by satisfactory evidence. The exemption hereby accorded a
<br />distributor and/or vendor of motor vehicle fuels and petroleum products and a dealer
<br />There is hereby imposed an annual city license tax on every person, firm and
<br />corporation (other than a distributor and/or vendor of motor vehicle fuels and petrol-
<br />eum products, tobacco, or seafood, a farmer, a farmeos' cooperative association, a
<br />producer, or a manufacturer taxable on capital by the state of Virg;nia, who or which
<br />peddle goods, wares or merchandise by selling and delivering the same at the same
<br />time to licensed dealers or retailers at other than a definite place of business
<br />operated by the seller.
<br />The annual city license tax hereby imposed, as aforesaid, on every such person
<br />firm or corporation, peddling, as aforesaid, is in the sum of one hundred dollars,
<br />for each vehicle used in such business, and the said license shall not be issued
<br />quarterly, nor shall it be transferable, nor shall the tax be subject to proration.
<br />Every vehicle used by any licensee hFireunder shall have conspicuously displayed
<br />thereon the name of the person, firm or corporation using the same, with the post -
<br />office address of the licensee, and the license hereby required shall be conspicuously
<br />displayed on e -ch vehicle while used in such business.
<br />Every person, firm or corporation claiming to be a distributor and/or vendor of
<br />motor vehicle fuels and petroleum products, a farmer, a dealer in forest products or
<br />tobacco, or seafood, a producer, or a manufacturer taxable on capital by the state of
<br />Virginia, and selling and delivering at the same time, or offering to sell and deliver
<br />at the same time, to licensed dealers or retailers, such goods, wares or merchandise,
<br />shall, upon request of any police, tax or revenue officer, furnish evidence of his or
<br />its claim other than his or its more statement, that he or it is exempt from the pro-
<br />vision of t'ais subsection, and failure to furnish such evidence shall be sufficient
<br />ground for charging the person operating the vehicle with the violation of this sub-
<br />section; and in any prosecution for a violation of this subsection, the claim afore-
<br />said must be corroborated by satisfactory evidence. The exemption hereby accorded a
<br />distributor and/or vendor of motor vehicle fuels and petroleum products and a dealer
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