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86. Merchants—Commission—Merchandise Brokers.
<br />Every person, firm or corporation buying or selling for
<br />another any kind of merchandise except cider on commission
<br />shall be deemed a commission merchant.
<br />Every person, firm or corporation doing business in this
<br />city who orders or solicits orders for, receives or distributes
<br />provisions of merchandise including flour, hay or grain ship-
<br />ped into this city from points within this state for distribu-
<br />tion on account of the shipper, or shipped direct to the buy-
<br />er, and participates in the profits ensuing from or accruing
<br />' out of the sales of such provisions or merchandise, including
<br />hay or grain, or receives compensation in any form for his
<br />services whether he invoices such sale and collects the money
<br />therefor or not shall be deemed to be a merchandise broker.
<br />The tax on commission merchants or merchandise brokers
<br />shall be ten dollars ($10.00) ; but when his commission or
<br />compensation shall exceed $1,000.00 the tax shall be $15.00;
<br />and $5.00 for each $1,000.00 or fraction thereof in excess of
<br />$29000.00. A person, firm or corporation who is both a com-
<br />mission merchant and a merchandise broker shall pay only
<br />one tax under this section.
<br />87. Merchants—Tobacco.
<br />See § 122.
<br />88. Merchandise Broker.
<br />See § 86.
<br />89. Merchandise Shipped in, Sold and Delivered.
<br />Every person, firm or corporation, including manufactur-
<br />ers or dealers who are not taxed under any other ordinance
<br />of this city, who from merchandise shipped into this city for
<br />the purpose of sale, shall sell or offer for sale such merchan-
<br />dise, or any part thereof, whether the sale or offer for sale
<br />be made before or after the arrival of such merchandise in
<br />the city, and whether delivery be made at the time of sale or
<br />not, shall pay a license tax of $25.
<br />90. Milk Depot.
<br />Every person, firm or corporation buying and selling
<br />sweet milk shall pay a specific license tax of twenty-five dol-
<br />lars ($25.00) per annum.
<br />91. Monuments and Tombstones.
<br />Each person, firm or corporation or agent conducting the
<br />business of making or selling tombstones, monuments, etc.,
<br />shall pay a specific license tax of twenty-five dollars ($25) .
<br />92. Motorcycle and Bicycle Repair Shop.
<br />On every motorcycle and bicycle repair shop the license
<br />tax shall be ten dollars ($10.00).
<br />93. Moving Picture Shows.
<br />For the exhibition or giving of any moving picture show,
<br />except for benevolent, charitable or educational purposes,
<br />where the price of admission does not exceed the sum of
<br />fifty cents, exclusive of United States admission tax, and
<br />where the seating capacity of any such place of amusement
<br />does not exceed three hundred and fifty, there shall be paid
<br />a license fee of fifteen dollars for each week or less time
<br />than a week, or one hundred dollars for the exhibition there-
<br />of for a period of one year, and the license tax for said
<br />additional seating capacity shall be one dollar and twenty-
<br />five cents for every ten seats or fraction of ten seats in ex-
<br />cess of three hundred and fifty seats, the license for one year
<br />shall be paid annually; provided, however, that when such
<br />exhibition is given for benevolent, charitable or educational
<br />purposes and is given for a period of more than one day in
<br />any one year and the exhibitor thereof receives a part of the
<br />receipts from such exhibition as his compensation, then such
<br />exhibition, after the first day, shall not be exempt from the
<br />payment of the license fee herein prescribed; and where the
<br />admission exceeds fifty cents, exclusive of United States ad-
<br />mission tax, the license tax as prescribed in Section 121
<br />shall apply.
<br />94. Musicians—Itinerant.
<br />Every itinerant musician performing in the streets of this
<br />city, such as organ -grinders, bag -pipe blowers, etc., shall
<br />pay a specific tax of five dollars ($5.00) per day.
<br />95. Non -Resident Business, Not Otherwise Taxed.
<br />On every person, firm or corporation, whose manufactur-
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<br />ing plant or place of business is located outside the corporate
<br />limits of this city, and on every person, on his own account
<br />or as agent for said non-resident business, who or which
<br />operates or causes or permits to be operated any motor ve-
<br />hicle on or over the streets of this City, generally or more
<br />frequent than once a week, for the purpose of delivering
<br />goods, wares or merchandise, manufactured articles, bakery
<br />products, laundry articles, ice cream, dairy products, gaso-
<br />line and petroleum products and bottled beverages, there
<br />shall be a license tax on each motor vehicle so used of
<br />$150.00 per annum. Not prorated.
<br />This section shall not apply to a person, firm or corpora-
<br />tion who or which has paid or is assessable a business license
<br />under some other section of this ordinance.
<br />The Commissioner of Revenue shall issue for each motor
<br />vehicle so licensed a license, which shall be prominently dis-
<br />played in the motor vehicle.
<br />96. Oculists.
<br />See § 16.
<br />97. Opticians.
<br />See § 16.
<br />98. Pawnbrokers.
<br />On every license to a pawnbroker, the specific license tax
<br />shall be one hundred dollars ($100) for one year or frac-
<br />tional part thereof. Not transferable.
<br />99. Peanut and Popcorn Venders.
<br />On street venders of peanuts and popcorn the license tax
<br />shall be ten dollars ($10).
<br />100. (a) Peddlers.
<br />Any person who shall carry from place to place, any
<br />goods, wares, or merchandise, and offer to sell or barter
<br />the same, or actually sell or barter the same, shall be deem-
<br />ed a peddler, and any person licensed as a peddler may sell
<br />any personal property a merchant may sell, or he may ex-
<br />change the same for other articles.
<br />A peddlers license shall not be transferable, and any per-
<br />son so licensed shall endorse his name on said license, and
<br />such license shall confer authority to sell within the City of
<br />Charlottesville.
<br />Any peddler who shall peddle for sale or sell or barter
<br />without a license shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and on
<br />conviction thereof shall be fined not less than twenty-five
<br />dollars, and not more than one hundred dollars for each
<br />offense; and any person selling or offering to sell as a ped-
<br />dler shall exhibit his license on demand of any citizen of this
<br />city; and upon his failure or refusal to do so he shall be sub-
<br />ject to the penalties for peddling without a license.
<br />All persons who do not keep a regular place of business
<br />(whether it be a house or a vacant lot, or elsewhere), open
<br />at all times in regular business hours and at the same place,
<br />who shall offer for sale goods, wares and merchandise, shall
<br />be deemed peddlers under this section. All persons who'keep
<br />a regular place of business, open at all times in regular busi-
<br />ness hours and at the same place, who shall elsewhere than
<br />at such regular place of business, personally, or through
<br />their agent, offer for sale or sell, and at the time of such
<br />offering for sale, deliver goods, wares and merchandise,
<br />shall also be deemed peddlers as above; but this section shall
<br />not apply to those who sell or offer for sale in person or by
<br />their employees, ice, wood meats, milk, butter, eggs, poul-
<br />try, fish, oysters, game, vegetables, fruits, or other family
<br />supplies of a perishable nature grown or produced by them
<br />and not purchased by them for sale.
<br />For the privilege of peddling or bartering in the City of
<br />Charlottesville, there shall be paid one hundred dollars for
<br />each person so engaged or employed in the City of Char-
<br />lottesville, when he travels on foot, and when he peddles oth-
<br />erwise than on foot, the tax shall be two hundred dollars,
<br />except that tax on peddlers of ice, wood, meat, milk, butter,
<br />eggs, poultry, fish, oysters, game, vegetables, fruits or other
<br />family supplies of a perishable nature not grown or pro-
<br />duced by them, shall be fifty dollars for each vehicle used
<br />in such peddling in the City of Charlottesville.
<br />Every vehicle used in peddling as aforesaid shall have con-
<br />spicuously displayed thereon the name of the peddler using
<br />the same, together with the street and number, city and
<br />state, of his residence.
<br />Nothing in this section shall be construed to require of
<br />any farmer a peddler's license for the privilege of selling or
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