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264 <br />LICENSES <br />TAXES ON LICENSES <br />AN ORDINANCE for imposing and collecting Licenses and <br />Taxes for the exercise of certain privileges within the <br />City of Charlottesville for twelve months commencing <br />the first day of May, 1941, and ending the thirtieth day <br />of April, 1942. <br />Be it ordained by the Council of the City of Charlottesville <br />that there shall be an annual license tax assessed and paid <br />by all persons, firms, or corporations engaged in the differ- <br />ent occupations, professions, or businesses named in this <br />ordinance and enumerated below for the year beginning the <br />first day of May, 1941, and ending the thirtieth day of <br />April, 1942. <br />1. Abattoirs. <br />Every person, firm or corporation operating an abattoir, <br />or an establishment of like kind at which animals are <br />slaughtered, shall pay a license tax of $75.00. <br />2. Advertising Distributors. <br />Every person engaged in distributing advertisements <br />for other parties than citizens of Charlottesville shall be <br />known as advertising distributors, and shall pay an annual <br />license tax of twenty dollars ($20). By advertising distribu- <br />tors, it is intended to designate any person who distributes <br />in the City of Charlottesville, almanacs, pamphlets, or samp- <br />les of medicines or other merchandise on the streets or from <br />house to house of said city. <br />3. Advertising -Loud Speakers on Vehicles <br />For each vehicle used on the streets of the City for adver- <br />tising by means of loud speakers, radio, or other mechanical <br />equipment, there shall be an annual license fee of $100.00, <br />which license fee shall not be prorated. The payment of <br />this license fee shall not convey the privilege to the licensee <br />of producing sound of such volume as to constitute a public <br />nuisance, and the operation of such equipment shall at all <br />times be subject to the direction of the Chief of Police. <br />Permits shall be secured from the Chief of Police before <br />exercising any privileges granted under this license. Non- <br />transferable. <br />on- <br />transferable. <br />4. Agents Books. <br />On every agent for sale of books, maps, pictures, periodi- <br />cals, printed pamphlets, or canvassers for the same, other <br />than religious work, ten dollars ($10). Not transferable. <br />S. Agents -Canvassers. <br />On all agents not otherwise provided for the license tax <br />shall be ten dollars ($10). <br />6. Agents Collection or Claim. <br />On every person or firm acting as collecting claim agents, <br />other than those who pay a license as attorneys at law, the <br />tax shall be twenty-five dollars ($25). <br />7. Agents -Fruit Trees, etc. <br />On agents selling fruit trees, etc., the license tax shall be <br />ten dollars ($10). <br />8. Agents -Labor. <br />On every labor agent engaged in hiring labor (all business <br />to be transacted in his office, except by written or telephonic <br />communication) the license tax shall be $25. <br />If the business is transacted at any other place in the city <br />outside of such office, the license tax shall be $500. <br />9. Agents -Musical Instruments. <br />On every person acting as agent for selling pianos, melo- <br />dians, parlor organs or other musical instruments, thirty- <br />five dollars ($35). <br />10. Agents -Non -Resident Fertilizer Companies. <br />Every person acting as agent for the sale in this city of <br />fertilizers manufactured by non-resident fertilizing com- <br />panies, whether selling on commission or for other consider- <br />ation, shall pay a specific license tax of twenty-five dollars <br />($25) per annum for each company represented. <br />11. Agents -Real Estate Salesmen for Real Estate Agents. <br />A real estate agent shall pay the sum of $50 per annum. <br />A real estate salesman operating for, with or under a real <br />estate agent shall pay the sum of $10.00. <br />Provided however that as to firms or corporations paying <br />a license as a real estate agent under this section only one <br />person may operate under the license tax paid by such firm <br />or corporation. All other persons operating as a real estate <br />salesman for, with or under such firm or corporation as <br />salesman shall pay a license tax as real estate salesman re- <br />gardless of whether they be members of such firm or officers <br />of such corporation or not. <br />A real estate agent within the meaning of this section is <br />any person, firm or corporation who or which for compensa- <br />tion or valuable consideration, sells or offers for sale, buys or <br />offers to buy, or negotiates the purchase or sale or exchange <br />of real estate, or who shall lease or offer to lease, or rents <br />or offers to rent any real estate or improvements there- <br />on for others. A real estate salesman within the meaning of <br />this section is any person who for valuable consideration, <br />sells or offers for sale, buys or offers to buy or negotiates the <br />purchase or sale or exchange of real estate or who leases or <br />offers to lease or rents or offers to rent any real estate or the <br />improvement thereon for others, for, with or under a real <br />estate agent regardless of whether he receives as his com- <br />pensation a salary or a portion of the commissions earned in <br />such transaction. Provided, however, that a person, firm or <br />corporation, who leases, or offers to lease property only shall <br />pay $25.00. <br />12. Agents Sewing Machines. <br />On every license to a person or firm, other than a regular <br />licensed merchant or sewing machine agent, as provided in <br />the Tax Laws of Virginia, to sell or offer to sell or rent sew- <br />ing machines, and accessories, the tax shall be twenty-five <br />dollars ($25). <br />It shall be the duty of the Commissioner of the Revenue to <br />require of any person or firm selling or offering to sell sew- <br />ing machines and accessories that the agent's certificate <br />granted by the Auditor of the State, as provided for in the <br />Tax Laws of Virginia, shall be provided for his inspection. <br />13. Agents -Stocks, Bonds, Notes or Bills. <br />On every agent for the sale of stocks, bonds, notes, or <br />bills, residing or doing business in or keeping an office in <br />this City $100.00. <br />14. Architects. <br />See § 15. <br />15. Attorneys, Physicians, Dentists, Architects, Civil Engineers, Sur- <br />veyo irs, Tree Surgeons, Opticians, Oculists, Veterinary Surgeons, <br />and Public Accountants, etc. <br />The specific license tax on every resident or non-resident <br />attorney-at-law, physician, dentist, architect, civil, mechani- <br />cal, or electrical engineer, surveyor, tree surgeon, optician, <br />oculist, veterinary surgeon, osteopath, chiropractor, porop- <br />athay, manipulative surgeon or any other practitioner of the <br />art of healing and public accountants having an office or <br />carrying on business or practicing their art or profession in <br />tl+is city shall be twenty-five dollars ($25), and in addition <br />thereto 1/! of 1 % (one-half of one per centum) of the gross <br />receipts, fees or commissions for the preceding license year <br />in excess of $2.500.00. The gross receipts of any firm shall, <br />for the purpose of this section, be considered equally divided <br />among the members and associates of said firm required to <br />secure licenses hereunder. <br />All persons who for compensation shall furnish plans and <br />specifications for the erection or improvements of buildings <br />shall be deemed architects, and all persons who examine or <br />measure the eyes for the purpose of fitting optical glasses to <br />them shall be deemed opticians within the meaning of this <br />section. No such license shall be issued for less than twenty- <br />five dollars ($25) . <br />Licenses under this section are not transferable. <br />16. Auctioneers -General. <br />On every general auctioneer, sixty dollars ($60), whether <br />he receives any compensation for his services or not. Under <br />this license a person may sell any goods, wares, merchandise, <br />or other things, including real estate, for the sale of which <br />by an auctioneer, no further license is elsewhere required. <br />Not transferable. <br />17. Auctioneers -Live Stock. <br />Every person, firm or corporation engaged in the auction- <br />ing of livestock in the City shall pay therefor a specific <br />license tax of $75.00. <br />18. Auction Sales. <br />Every person or firm who shall bring into this city from <br />any place beyond its limits a stock of goods of any kind and <br />remain here temporarily selling the same, at wholesale or re- <br />tail and either at public auction or privately, shall pay there- <br />for a specific license tax of five hundred dollars ($500). <br />Not transferable. <br />19. Auto Repair Shop. <br />Any person, firm or corporation engaged in the business <br />of repairing, painting, upholstering or renewing autos, auto <br />trucks, busses, trailers, not owned or leased by him, or any <br />part or parts thereof, shall for one or all said businesses <br />1-1 <br />1 <br />1 <br />1 <br />