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other devices that operate on the coin -in -the -slot principle, used for gain, except as a pay telephone, shall pay for every such slot machine or musical or other device as the case may be, a license tax of $5.00 per year on machines where the customer pays one cent and a license tax of $10.00 per year on machines where the customer pays more than 1 c to operate, except automatic baggage or parcel machines or receptacles which are used for the storage of baggage, parcels of any character on which shall be levied a tax of twenty-five cents per year for each receptacle that is operated on the coin -in -the -slot principle; provided however, that no such person, firm or corporation may keep, ' maintain, exhibit or operate any slot machine or any device in which the element of chance enters or which gives out any slugs or checks or device which may be used to again operate the machine or gives any prize or any other article other than the article of merchandise or music in payment for which the coin was originally deposited; pro- vided further, that this section shall not apply to slot machines that are used for the purpose of selling individual sanitary drinking cups, or U. S. Postage Stamps. Not transferable. Any person violating any provision of this section shall be fined not less than five nor more than fifty dollars for each day and confisca- tion of the machine. Each license issued shall show the manufacturer's number. If the machine has no number the license must be pasted in a conspicuous place on the machine. 109. Street Venders or Merchants. On every person, whether manufacturer or not, selling upon the street or other public places, inflated balloons, plaster figures, toys, jewelry, and other small articles, the license tax shall be $10 per day. The Mayor shall, if he deem it necessary, designate the place of sale, or refuse the license. This section shall not apply to employees of a circus. iii on the streets of the City, there shall be paid twenty-five dollars ($25.00) per day. 117. Tobacco, Snuff, etc., Retailers. No person not a producer shall be allowed to sell by retail to- bacco, snuff, cigars, or cigarettes, without having obtained a specific license to do so. The sum to be paid by retailers of tobacco, snuff, cigars or cigar- ettes shall be for said privilege a specific tax of five dollars (5), which shall be assessed and collected as other assessments upon license, but which shall not be in lieu of merchants' license on sales. This section shall be construed to require of any person taking out this special license taxto sell tobacco, snuff, cigars or cigarettes a merchants' license in addition thereto based on amount of sales. 118. Undertakers. An undertaker shall pay for the privilege of transacting such busi- ness a special license tax as follows: Where the gross receipts during the preceding year did not ex- ceed $5,000.00 the tax shall be $75.00. Where the gross receipts during the preceding year exceeded $5,000.00 but did not exceed $15,000.00 the tax shall be $125.00. Where the gross receipts duiing the preceding year exceeded $15,000.00 the tax shall be $175.00. For the purpose of ascertaining the tax to be paid by an under- taker beginning business, the license tax shall be based on the es- timated amount of gross receipts that will be received during the bal- ance of the license year. Every underestimate shall be subject to correction after the close of the license year. 119. Vehicles—For Hire. On every two -horse wagon or dray used for hire, ten dollars 110. Storing and Impounding. ($10.00). On every license to a person or firm to keep, for compensation, any On every one-horse wagon or dray, used for hire, five dollars ($5). house, yard or lot for storage, or other impounding, the tax shall be Every owner of Motor Driven Vehicles for hire shall pay $20.00 twenty-five dollais ($25) on each house, yard or lot. for the first vehicle and $15.00 for each additional car. Any person desiring to surrender a license for one-horse vehicles 111. Surgeons. and have issued therefor a license for a two -horse vehicle shall be entitled to a credit for the unexpired part of the license surrendered. See 3 14. Any person, non-resident, hauling goods, or letting his vehicle or vehicles out for hire on the public streets of this city, shall be held 112. Surveyors. liable under this ordinance. See § 14. Every licensed wagon, dray, or other vehicle, shall have its license number plainly marked on metal or other material and placed on the 113. Tailors and Cutters. rear face of the rear axle thereof, or other conspicuous place. This paragraph not to apply to vehicles rented without driver. Each person or firm conducting the business of tailoring or selling Such license number shall be applied by the Commissioner of suits or dresses by sample shall be deemed a merchant and subject to Revenue. 80, of this ordinance. It shall be unlawful to transfer a tag from one vehicle to another, except in case of a vehicle being temporarily disabled. 114. Telegraph Companies. The Chief of Police is hereby designated Wagon Inspector and it On telegraph companies or agents each for business done between shall be his duty to see that all vehicles for which a license is re quired under this section shall have their numbers properly displayed, this and other points within the State of Virginia, and not including and if any vehicle be found without such number it shall be his duty any business done to or from points without the State, and not includ- to ascertain the name of the owner and require said license to be ing business in which messages although to or from points within this procured under penalty as provided in the general provisions of this state, pass through territory without this state, and not including any ordinance. And in all cases where the number is not properly dis- business done for the goveinment of the United States, its officers, or played the delinquent shall be fined not less than $1.50 nor more agents, a license tax of one hundred dollars ($100) shall be paid. Pro- than $5.00. vided that any company taxed under this section whose receipts do not In the discharge of the duty thus imposed the Chief of Police shall exceed three thousand dollars ($3,000) per annum, the tax shall be have authority to call to his aid the several members of his force. fifty dollars ($50). 120. Vehicles—Motor Driven. 115. Telephone Companies. 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. On each telephone company the license tax shall be one per cent. shall obtain a license to operate the same by making application to the on the g,oss receipts of such company. The gross receipts on which City Collector for a license to operate and present State motor vehicle percentage is charged shall include all phone service known as mutual, registration card. The application must contain the name of the sp- all revenue derived from long distance service, and all moneys derived plicant, his residence, and if a corporation, its place of business, giving from the use of the switch board by local lines, expressly excepting the name, factory number, if any, fixed by its maker, a brief descrip- business done between this city and points without the state, and tion showing the style of the machine, and weight, as computed by messages sent to or received by the government of the United States the provisions of the State law now in force or in accordance with any or this state or their agents or officers. modifications that hereafter may be made by the State. After making This license tax shall be assessable and payable in like manner as application, and having paid into the treasury of the City the required that of the State. license tax fee, the City Collector shall issue a certificate of registra- tion and license. The rate shall be as follows: 116. Theatricals. 10 cents per 100 lbs., or major portion thereof. Minimum tee On every theatrical performance or any performance similar $3.00 per vehicle. thereto, panorama or any public performance or exhibition of any Trucks: 1 ton or less, $3.00. kind there shall be paid five dollars ($5.00) for each performance or Trucks: 1%2 ton, $3.75. fifteen dollars ($15.00) per week of a continuous performance, except Trucks: 2 tons, $7.50. for charitable, educational, or benevolent purposes, and with the fur- Trucks: 2%2 tons, $10.00. ther exception of road or tab shows held in conjunction with the usual Trucks: All over 2%2 tons, $15.00. cinema attraction, where the price of admission for the entire perform. Motorcycle: $2.00; with sidecar, $3.00. ante does not exceed fifty cents. But on every such performance or After Aug. 1, 1943, % of original. exhibition, attendance upon which is solicited by a barker or by pub- After Nov. 1, 1943, %2 of original. lic crying in the streets of the City, or in such a manner as to be heard After Feb. 1, 1944, % of original.