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340 <br />LICENSES <br />TAXES ON LICENSES <br />AN ORDINANCE for imposing and collecting Licenses and <br />Taxes for the exercise of certain privileges within <br />the City of Charlottesville for twelve months, com- <br />mencing the first day of May, 1945, and ending the <br />thirtieth day of April, 1946. <br />Be it ordained by the Council of the City of Charlottes- <br />ville that there shall be an annual license tax assessed and <br />paid by all persons, firms, or corporations engaged in the <br />different occupations, professions, or businesses named in <br />this ordinance and enumerated below for the year beginning <br />the first day of May, 1945, and ending the thirtieth day of <br />April, 1946. <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 distrib- <br />utors, it is intended to designate any person who distributes <br />in the City of Charlottesville, almanacs, pamphlets, or sam- <br />ples of medicine or other merchandise on the streets or <br />from 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 ad- <br />vertising by means of loud speakers, radio, or other me- <br />chanical equipment, there shall be an annual license fee of <br />$100.00, which license fee shall not be prorated. The pay- <br />ment of this license fee shall not convey the privilege to the <br />licensee of producing sound of such volume as to constitute <br />a public nuisance, and the operation of such equipment shall <br />at all times be subject to the direction of the Chief of Police. <br />Permits shall be secured from the Chief of Police before ex- <br />ercising any privileges granted under this license. Non- <br />transferable. <br />4. Agents -Books. <br />On every agent for sale of books, maps, pictures, period- <br />icals, 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 <br />be ten dollars ($10). <br />8. Agents -Labor. <br />On every labor agent engaged in hiring labor (all busi- <br />ness to be transacted in his office, except by written or tele- <br />phonic communication) the license tax shall be $25. <br />If the business is transacted at any other place in the <br />city 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 dollar ($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 />per annum for each company represented. <br />11. Agents -Real Estate -Salesmen for Real Estate Agents. <br />A real estate agent shall pay for the privilege of trans- <br />acting such business a specific license tax as follows: <br />Where the gross commissions of such agent during the <br />preceding calendar year did not exceed $5,000.00 the tax <br />shall be fifty dollars ($50.00). <br />Where the gross commissions of such agent during the <br />preceding calendar year exceeded $5,000.00 the tax shall be <br />one hundred dollars ($100.00) . <br />A real estate salesman operating for, with, or under a <br />real estate agent, shall pay the sum of twenty dollars <br />($20). <br />Provided, however, that as to firms or corporations pay- <br />ing a license as a real estate agent under this section only <br />one person may operate under the license tax paid by such <br />firm or corporation. All other persons operating as a real <br />estate salesman for, with or under such firm or corporation <br />as salesman shall pay a license tax as real estate salesman <br />regardless of whether they be members of such firm or offi- <br />cers 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 <br />or offers to buy, or negotiates the purchase or sale or ex- <br />change of real estate, or who shall lease or offer to lease, or <br />rents 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 offer 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 rent or offers to rent any real estate or <br />the improvements thereon for others, for, with or under a <br />real estate agent regardless of whether he receives as his <br />compensation a salary or a portion of the commissions <br />earned in such transactions. Provided, however, that a per- <br />son, firm or corporation, who leases, or offers to lease prop- <br />erty only shall 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 <br />to require of any person or firm selling or offering to sell <br />sewing 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. Architects. <br />See § 14. <br />14. Attorneys, Physicians, Dentists, Architects, Civil Engineers, Sur- <br />veyors, Tree Surgeons, Opticians, Oculists, Veterinary Surgeons, <br />Public Accountants, Chiropodists and Chiropractors, etc. <br />The specific license tax on every resident or non-resident <br />attorney-at-law, physician, dentist, architect, civil, mechan- <br />ical, or electrical engineer, municipal consultant, surveyor, <br />tree surgeon, optician, oculist, veterinary surgeon, osteo- <br />path, chiropractor, chiropodist, poropathay, manipulative <br />surgeon or other practitioner of the art of healing and pub- <br />lic accountants having an office or carrying on business or <br />practicing their art or profession in this city shall be twenty- <br />five dollars ($25), and in addition thereto 1/2 of 1% (one- <br />half of one per centum) of the gross receipts, fees or com- <br />missions for the preceding license year in excess of $2,500. <br />The gross receipts of any firm shall, for the purpose of this <br />section, be considered equally divided among the members <br />and associates of said firm required to secure licenses here- <br />under. <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 <br />to 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 />15. Auctioneer -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 />16. Auctioneers -Live Stock. <br />If commissions and profits from sales did not exceed <br />$1,000.00 during preceding year, tax is $75.00. <br />If commissions and profits from sales exceeded $1,000.00, <br />tax is $75.00 and $1.00 for each $100.00, or fractional part <br />thereof, of commissions and profits from sales, in excess of <br />$1,000.00. (Licensed live stock auctioneer who buys and <br />sells on his own account shall for the conduct of that busi- <br />ness be deemed a MERCHANT and shall take out a mer- <br />chant's license.) <br />17. Auction Saks. <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 <br />retail and either at public auction or privately, shall pay <br />therefor a specific license tax of five hundred dollars ($500) . <br />Not transferable. <br />18. 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 of said businesses <br />when conducted in the same place of business, pay a specific <br />license tax of twenty-five dollars ($25). <br />1 <br />1 <br />1 <br />1 <br />1 <br />