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493 formance or exhibition, and fifty dollars ($50.00) for each and not including any business done to or from points with - additional performance or exhibition. out the State, and not including business in which messages On a side show attached to or exhibiting with any circus, although to or from points within this state, pass through menagerie, tent show or other such like exhibition or per- territory without this state, and not including any business done for the of the United States, its officers, formance within the corporate limits of the city, the license tax shall be twenty dollars ($20) for each performance or government or agents, a license tax of one hundred dollars ($100) shall exhibition. be paid. Provided that any company taxed under this sec - No license shall be issued to any circus, menagerie, tent tion whose receipts do not exceed three thousand dollars show, or other such like exhibition or performance unless ($3.000.00) per annum, the tax shall be fifty dollars ($50). and until the price of admissions and of seats shall have been previously generally published. 119. Telephone Companies. If a show or other performance is conducted in connec- tion with and as an inducement for the sale of merchandise On each telephone company the license tax shall be one there shall be charged a license tax of $25.00 per day half of one per cent. on the gross receipts of such company. whether an admission is charged or not. The gross receipts on which percentage is charged shall in- clude all phone service known as mutual, all revenue derived from long distacne service, and all moneys derived from the 110. Silks—Manufacture. use of the switch board by local lines, expressly excepting Each person, firm or corporation manufacturing Silks business done between this city and points without the state, shall pay a specific license of $100.00 per annum. and messages sent to or received by the government of the United States or this state or their agents or officers. 111. Skating Rinks. This license tax shall be assessable and payable in like On every license to the proprietor or occupier of a room manner as that of the State. ' fitted up or used for roller skating purposes the tax shall be fifty dollars ($50.00). Not transferable. 120. Theatricals. On every theatrical performance or any performance 112. Slot Machines and Slot Machine Operators. similar thereto, panorama or any public performance or` ex - (a) Any person, firm or corporation having in the City hibition of any kind there shall be paid five dollars ($5.00) for each performance or fifteen dollars ($15.00) .per week of Charlottesville any slot machine of any description into of a continuous performance, except for charitable, educa- which coins are inserted for the purpose of disposing of any tional, or benevolent purposes, and with the further ex - article of merchandise or for the purpose of operating any ception of road or tab shows held in conjunction with the device that operates on the coin -in -the -slot principle, used for shall for every such slot machine or device the usual cinema attraction, where the price of admission for But gain pay the entire performance does not exceed fifty cents. on following: every such performance or exhibition, attendance upon On each such slot machine or device operated which is solicited by a barker or by public crying in the by the insertion of one cent. ................. ... $ 5.00 streets of the City, or in such a manner as to be heard on the On each such slot machine or device used only streets of the City, there shall be paid twenty-five dollars for the vending of merchandise ...................... 5.00 ($25.00) per day. On each such slot machine or device furnish- ing music, amusement or .photographs.......... 15.00 121. Tobacco, Snuff, etc., Retailers. On each automatic baggage or parcel machine used for the storage of baggage or parcels, o person not a producer shall be allowed to sell by retail for each receptacle ..................................... 25 tobacco, snuff, cigars, or cigarettes, without having obtained Provided, however, that this section shall not be con- a specific license to do so. The sum to be paid by retailers of tobacco, snuff, cigars strued to permit the keeping, maintaining, exhibiting or of any slot machine or device in which the ele- or cigarettes shall be for said privilege a specific tax of five operating ment of chance is employed, or which gives out slugs or dollars ($5.00), which shall be assessed and collected as other assessments upon license, but which shall not be in checks or devices which may be used to operate the machine other than the lieu of merchants' license on sales. again, or gives any prize or any article article of merchandise or music in payment of which the This section shall be construed to require of any person tobacco, coin was originally deposited. Any having or maintaining any such slot machine taking out this special license tax to sell snuff, cigars or cigarettes a merchants' license in addition thereto person the licensing of which is prohibited by this section shall be based on amount of sales. .� fined not less than $5.00 nor more than $100.00 for each day such machine was used, and such machine shall be confis- 122. Undertakers, Embalmers and Funeral Directors. cated and destroyed. Each license issued shall refer to the manufacturer's Every person, firm or corporation who is engaged in the business as an undertaker, embalmer, or funeral director number of the machine, or if the machine has no such shall pay a license tax of one hundred and twenty-five dol - number the license must be pasted on a conspicuous place lars ($125.00), and in addition thereto, if the gross receipts on the machine. (b) In addition to the license tax hereinabove imposed of such person, firm or corporation, for the preceding cal - endar exceeded $10,000.00, an additional sum of in respect to each machine, every person, firm or corpora- year, thirty cents (30c) for each $100.00 of excess of such re - tion selling, leasing, renting or otherwise furnishing a slot ceipts over $10,000.00. machine or machines to others furnishing music or amuse- ment, shall be deemed a slot machine operator and shall pay an annual license tax of $150.00. 123. Vehicles—For Hire. (c) No part of this section shall be construed to apply On every two -horse wagon or dray used for hire, ten to pay telephones or to slot machines used for the purpose dollars ($10.00). of vending individual sanitary drinking cups or United On every one-horse wagon or dray used for hire, five States postage stamps, and subsection (b) hereof shall not dollars ($5.00). be construed to apply to operators of automatic baggage or On every motor driven vehicle operated on the streets parcel checking machines. of the City of Charlottesville for public hire the tax shall 113. Street Venders or Merchants. be twenty dollars ($20.00). On every person, whether manufacturer or not, selling The tax under this section shall be in addition to the upon the street or other public places, inflated balloons, tax imposed by section 124 hereof. plastic figures, toys, jewelry, and other small articles, the Any .person desiring to surrender a license for one-horse license tax shall be $10 per day. The Mayor shall, if he vehicles and have issued therefor a license for a two -horse deem it necessary, designate the place of sale, or refuse the vehicle shall be entitled to a credit for the unexpired part of ' license. This section shall not apply to employees of a circus. the license surrendered. Any person, non-resident, hauling goods, or letting his 114. Storing and Impounding• vehicle or vehicles out for hire on the .public streets of this On every license to a person or firm to keep, for compen- city, shall be held liable under this ordinance. sation, any house, yard or lot for storage, or other im- Every licensed wagon, dray, or other vehicle, shall have pounding, the tax shall be twenty-five dollars ($25) on each its license number plainly marked on metal or other mate - house, yard or lot. rial and placed on the rear face of the rear axle thereof, or other conspicuous place. This paragraph not to apply to 115. Surgeons. vehicles rented without driver. Such license number shall be supplied by the Commis - See § 14. sioner of Revenue. It shall be unlawful to transfer a tag from one vehicle to 116. Surveyors. another, except in case of a vehicle being temporarily dis- abled. See § 14. The Chief of Police is hereby designated Wagon Inspec- tor and it shall be his duty to see that all vehicles for which 117. Tailors and Cutters. a license is required under this section shall have their num- Each person or firm conducting the business of tailoring bers properly displayed, and if any vehicle be found without or selling suits or dresses by sample shall be deemed a such number it shall be his duty to ascertain the name of merchant and subject to § 85, of this ordinance. the owner and require said license to be procured under penalty as provided in the general provisions of this ordi- 118. Telegraph Companies. On telegraph companies or agents each for business done nance. And in all cases where the number is not properly displayed the delinquent shall be fined not less than $1.50 between this and other points within the State of Virginia, nor more than $5.00.