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60. Flour and Meal Manufacture. <br />On every license to a manufacturer of flour or meal, the <br />tax shall be twenty-five dollars ($25) for each license. But <br />when such manufacturer deals in flour, meal or other grain <br />products other than his own manufacture he shall be re- <br />quired to procure a merchants' license graduated by the <br />amount of such purchases. <br />61. Fortune Tellers. <br />Every person practicing the art of divination, fortune <br />telling, palmistry, astrology, or phrenology who shall prac- <br />tice the same in this city, shall pay a tax of one hundred <br />and fifty dollars ($150.00) per week. Not transferable. <br />62. Foundry and Machine Shops. <br />On every license to a foundry the tax shall be fifty dol- <br />lars ($50). On every license to a machine shop, the tax <br />shall be ($50). But if a foundry be conducted in conjunc- <br />tion with a machine shop the combined tax shall be one <br />hundred dollars ($100.00). <br />63. Furniture Upholsterer or Repairer. <br />On every license to a furniture upholsterer or repairer <br />the tax shall be ten dollars ($10). <br />68. Hobby Horses, Merry -Go -Rounds, Faris Wheels, etc. <br />On every license to keep a Hobby Horse, Merry -Go - <br />Round, Ferris Wheel or other like amusement, the tax shall <br />be fifty dollars ($50.00) per week and no license shall be <br />issued under this section for a shorter period than one week. <br />And such license, shall be a personal privilege and only <br />granted by order of the Mayor, except where conducted in <br />connection with County Fairs, in which case no tax shall <br />be imposed. <br />64. Garage -Storage. <br />Every person who shall keep a garage for storage of <br />automobiles shall pay a tax of $25.00 and $0.50 additional <br />for each vehicle for the storage capacity of such garage. <br />Shops for repairing automobiles whether conducted in <br />connection with a garage or separately, shall be required to <br />pay the license tax provided for in Sec. 18. <br />65. Garment Manufacture. <br />Every person, firm or corporation, manufacturing gar- <br />ments shall pay a specific license tax of $75.00. <br />66. Gasoline. <br />See § 83. <br />67. Gasoline and Other Petroleum Products. <br />Any person, firm or corporation whose storage tanks are <br />located outside of the corporate limits of the city who trans- <br />ports gasoline or other petroleum products of like nature <br />on or through the streets of this city for sale or delivery to <br />wholesale or retail merchants for resale in this city shall <br />pay a license tax for the privilege of doing such business in <br />this city, the same to be graduated by the amount of sales <br />or delivered price made by him or it of such commodities <br />sold or delivered in this City during the next preceding <br />year, or, in the case of starting business during the year, <br />the estimated amount of sales which will be so made during <br />the balance of the license year, the amount to be paid to be <br />the same as that required of a retail merchant. <br />This section shall not apply to a person, firm, or corpora- <br />tion who or which has paid or is assessable a business <br />license under some other section of this ordinance. <br />68. Hobby Horses, Merry -Go -Rounds, Faris Wheels, etc. <br />On every license to keep a Hobby Horse, Merry -Go - <br />Round, Ferris Wheel or other like amusement, the tax shall <br />be fifty dollars ($50.00) per week and no license shall be <br />issued under this section for a shorter period than one week. <br />And such license, shall be a personal privilege and only <br />granted by order of the Mayor, except where conducted in <br />connection with County Fairs, in which case no tax shall <br />be imposed. <br />70. Ice Dealers or Distributors. <br />A specific tax is hereby imposed on each person, other <br />than an ice manufacturer, who sells or distributes ice in the <br />city, of fifty dollars ($50.00). <br />71. lce-Manufacture. <br />Every person, firm or corporation manufacturing ice for <br />sale, or dealing in ice imported into this city, shall pay a <br />license tax of seventy-five dollars ($75.00). <br />343 <br />72. Ice Cream or Sherbet -Manufacture. <br />(a) On each and every establishment for the manufac- <br />turing of and selling at wholesale or wholesale and retail, <br />ice cream or sherbet ........................................................$75.00 <br />(b) On each and every establishment for the manufac- <br />turing of and selling at retail in his own establishment, ice <br />creamor sherbet............................................................$10.00 <br />73. Junk Dealers. <br />On every license to a junk dealer the tax shall be fifty <br />dollars ($50) and on every person who shall engage in the <br />business of buying junk or other matter for a junk dealer <br />or for sale to a junk dealer, the tax shall be thirty dollars <br />($30). Where such a dealer engages in buying and selling <br />of wool, hides or furs, he shall pay a merchants' tax in ad- <br />dition. <br />74. Laundries. <br />Every person, firm or corporation who operates a laun- <br />dry shall pay for the privilege of conducting such business, <br />if it be a laundry operated other than by hand, in this city, <br />a license tax of one hundred dollars ($100.00), and in addi- <br />tion thereto, if the gross receipts of such person, firm or <br />corporation, for the preceding calendar year, exceeded <br />$50,000.00, an additional sum of ten cents (10c) for each <br />$100.00 of excess of such receipts over $50,000.00. <br />On every person operating a hand laundry the license <br />tax shall be $20.00. But nothing in this section shall be con- <br />strued to impose a license tax upon persons who wash bed <br />clothing, wearing apparel, etc., without laundry machinery <br />and who do not keep shops or other regular place of busi- <br />ness for laundry purposes. <br />75. Laundries --Dry Cleaning -Pressing and Dyeing -Non -Resident. <br />On every person, firm or corporation (other than a laun- <br />dry, pressing, dyeing or dry cleaning establishment located <br />in the City of Charlottesville paying the regular laundry, <br />dyeing, pressing, or dry cleaning license tax in the City of <br />Charlottesville) engaged in soliciting general laundry, dye- <br />ing, pressing, or dry cleaning work, including towel or linen <br />service, or the renting or furnishing of towels for compensa- <br />tion, where said person, firm or corporation does the laun- <br />dry, dyeing, pressing, or dry cleaning work thereon outside <br />of the City, or has it done outside of the City $250.00 per <br />annum. <br />76. Laundries Supplying Automobile Covers and Cleaning Cloths. <br />On every person engaged in the business of supplying <br />cloths for temporary protection of automobiles and clean- <br />ing the same or any other wiper cloths, there shall be a <br />specific license tax of $25.00. <br />77. Lightning Rods. <br />Every person, canvassing for, selling or erecting light- <br />ning rods in this city, other than a regular licensed mer- <br />chant shall pay a specific tax of twenty-five dollars ($25) <br />for a year or fractional part thereof. Not transferable. <br />78. Loans. <br />On each person, firm or corporation, other than a pawn- <br />broker, making loans secured by orders on or assignments <br />of the time or wages of any employee, or making loans <br />secured by chattel mortgages or liens on personal property <br />or household furniture, there shall be a license tax of <br />$250.00. Not Prorated. Not transferable. <br />On each person, firm or corporation licensed to do busi- <br />ness under the provisions of the State Uniform Small Loan <br />Act there shall be a license tax of $250. Not prorated. Not <br />transferable. <br />79. Insulating Pins -Manufacture. <br />On each person, firm or corporation manufacturing in- <br />sulating pins shall pay a specific license of $75.00 per an- <br />num. <br />80. Lodging Houses. <br />Private entertainment (ten rooms or less), tax $5.00 for <br />first room, and $1.00 additional for each room in excess <br />of one. <br />Any person who shall furnish for compensation lodging <br />to travelers or sojourners in any house of ten bedrooms or <br />less shall be deemed to keep a lodging house. <br />81. Machine Shops. <br />See § 62. <br />82. Medicines, Salves, etc. -Sale of on Street. <br />On every such license to carry or sell medicines, salves or <br />liniments, on the streets, alley, or elsewhere in this city, the <br />tax shall be twenty-five dollars ($25) per day, but no such <br />license shall be issued except by authority of the Mayor. <br />Provided that this tax shall not apply to any person paying <br />merchants' license tax. <br />69. Hotels. <br />Any person who keeps a public inn or lodging house of <br />more than ten bedrooms where transient guests are fed and <br />lodged for pay shall be deemed for the purpose of this sec- <br />tion to be engaged in the business of keeping a hotel. <br />A transient guest is one who puts up for less than one <br />week at such hotel, but such a house is no less a hotel be- <br />cause some of its guests put up for longer periods than one <br />week. <br />Any person conducting the business of keeping a hotel <br />as defined in this section shall pay an annual license tax of <br />one dollar and fifty cents for each bedroom and fifty cents <br />for each bathroom in said hotel. <br />70. Ice Dealers or Distributors. <br />A specific tax is hereby imposed on each person, other <br />than an ice manufacturer, who sells or distributes ice in the <br />city, of fifty dollars ($50.00). <br />71. lce-Manufacture. <br />Every person, firm or corporation manufacturing ice for <br />sale, or dealing in ice imported into this city, shall pay a <br />license tax of seventy-five dollars ($75.00). <br />343 <br />72. Ice Cream or Sherbet -Manufacture. <br />(a) On each and every establishment for the manufac- <br />turing of and selling at wholesale or wholesale and retail, <br />ice cream or sherbet ........................................................$75.00 <br />(b) On each and every establishment for the manufac- <br />turing of and selling at retail in his own establishment, ice <br />creamor sherbet............................................................$10.00 <br />73. Junk Dealers. <br />On every license to a junk dealer the tax shall be fifty <br />dollars ($50) and on every person who shall engage in the <br />business of buying junk or other matter for a junk dealer <br />or for sale to a junk dealer, the tax shall be thirty dollars <br />($30). Where such a dealer engages in buying and selling <br />of wool, hides or furs, he shall pay a merchants' tax in ad- <br />dition. <br />74. Laundries. <br />Every person, firm or corporation who operates a laun- <br />dry shall pay for the privilege of conducting such business, <br />if it be a laundry operated other than by hand, in this city, <br />a license tax of one hundred dollars ($100.00), and in addi- <br />tion thereto, if the gross receipts of such person, firm or <br />corporation, for the preceding calendar year, exceeded <br />$50,000.00, an additional sum of ten cents (10c) for each <br />$100.00 of excess of such receipts over $50,000.00. <br />On every person operating a hand laundry the license <br />tax shall be $20.00. But nothing in this section shall be con- <br />strued to impose a license tax upon persons who wash bed <br />clothing, wearing apparel, etc., without laundry machinery <br />and who do not keep shops or other regular place of busi- <br />ness for laundry purposes. <br />75. Laundries --Dry Cleaning -Pressing and Dyeing -Non -Resident. <br />On every person, firm or corporation (other than a laun- <br />dry, pressing, dyeing or dry cleaning establishment located <br />in the City of Charlottesville paying the regular laundry, <br />dyeing, pressing, or dry cleaning license tax in the City of <br />Charlottesville) engaged in soliciting general laundry, dye- <br />ing, pressing, or dry cleaning work, including towel or linen <br />service, or the renting or furnishing of towels for compensa- <br />tion, where said person, firm or corporation does the laun- <br />dry, dyeing, pressing, or dry cleaning work thereon outside <br />of the City, or has it done outside of the City $250.00 per <br />annum. <br />76. Laundries Supplying Automobile Covers and Cleaning Cloths. <br />On every person engaged in the business of supplying <br />cloths for temporary protection of automobiles and clean- <br />ing the same or any other wiper cloths, there shall be a <br />specific license tax of $25.00. <br />77. Lightning Rods. <br />Every person, canvassing for, selling or erecting light- <br />ning rods in this city, other than a regular licensed mer- <br />chant shall pay a specific tax of twenty-five dollars ($25) <br />for a year or fractional part thereof. Not transferable. <br />78. Loans. <br />On each person, firm or corporation, other than a pawn- <br />broker, making loans secured by orders on or assignments <br />of the time or wages of any employee, or making loans <br />secured by chattel mortgages or liens on personal property <br />or household furniture, there shall be a license tax of <br />$250.00. Not Prorated. Not transferable. <br />On each person, firm or corporation licensed to do busi- <br />ness under the provisions of the State Uniform Small Loan <br />Act there shall be a license tax of $250. Not prorated. Not <br />transferable. <br />79. Insulating Pins -Manufacture. <br />On each person, firm or corporation manufacturing in- <br />sulating pins shall pay a specific license of $75.00 per an- <br />num. <br />80. Lodging Houses. <br />Private entertainment (ten rooms or less), tax $5.00 for <br />first room, and $1.00 additional for each room in excess <br />of one. <br />Any person who shall furnish for compensation lodging <br />to travelers or sojourners in any house of ten bedrooms or <br />less shall be deemed to keep a lodging house. <br />81. Machine Shops. <br />See § 62. <br />82. Medicines, Salves, etc. -Sale of on Street. <br />On every such license to carry or sell medicines, salves or <br />liniments, on the streets, alley, or elsewhere in this city, the <br />tax shall be twenty-five dollars ($25) per day, but no such <br />license shall be issued except by authority of the Mayor. <br />Provided that this tax shall not apply to any person paying <br />merchants' license tax. <br />