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70. Shooting Gallery. On every person, firm or corporation operating a shooting gallery, the license tax shall be $100.00 per month. NOT PRORATED. 71. Shows, Circuses, etc. On a circus, menagerie, tent show, or other such like exhibition or performance, within the corporate limits of the city, whether combined or separate, the license tax shall be one hundred and fifty dollars ($150.00) for the first performance or exhibition, and one hundred dollars ($100.00) for each addi- tional performance or exhibition. On a side show attached to or exhibiting with any circus, menagerie, tent show, or other such like exhibition or per- formance within the corporate limits of the city, the license tax shall be twenty five dollars ($25) for each performance or exhibition. No license shall be issued to any circus, menagerie, tent show, or other such like exhibition or performance unless and until the price of admissions and of seats shall have been previously generally published. If a show or other performance is conducted in connection with and as an inducement for the sale of merchandise there shall be charged a license tax of $25.00 per day whether an admission is charged or not. 72. Skating Rinks. On every person, firm or corporation operating a skating rink the license tax shall be twenty five dollars ($25.00), and where the gross receipts, exclusive of excise and admission taxes, exceed $2,000.00 the tax shall be forty cents (40c) on each $100.00 in addition thereto. 73. Slot Machines and Slot Machine Operators. (a) Any person, firm or corporation having in the City of Charlottesville any slot machine of any description into which coins are inserted for the purpose of disposing of any article of merchandise for the purpose of operating any device that operates on the coin-in-the-slot principle, used for gain shall pay for every such slot machine or device the following: On each such slot machine or device operated by the insertion of one cent $2.50 On each such slot machine or device used only for the vending of merchandise of five cents or more $5.00 On each such slot machine or device furnish- ing music, amusement or photographs $15.00 On each automatic baggage or parcel machine used for the storage of baggage or parcels, for each receptacle $.25 Provided, however, that this section shall not be construed to permit the keeping, maintaining, exhibiting or operating of any slot machine or device in which the element of chance is employed, or which gives out slugs or checks or devices which may be used to operate the machine again, or gives any prize or any article other than the article of merchandise or music in payment of which the coin was originally deposited. Any person having or maintaining any such slot machine the licensing of which is prohibited by this section shall be fined not less than $5.00 nor more than $100.00 for each day such machine was used, and such machine shall be confiscated and destroyed. Each license issued shall refer to the manufacturer's num- ber of the machine, or if the machine has no such number the license must be pasted on a conspicuous place on the machine. (b) In addition to the license tax hereinabove imposed on respect to each machine, every person, firm or corporation selling, leasing, renting or otherwise furnishing a slot machine or machines to others furnishing music or amusement, shall be deemed a slot machine operator and shall pay an annual license tax of $150.00. (c) No part of this section shall be construed to apply to pay telephones or to slot machines used for the purpose of vending individual sanitary drinking cups or United States postage stamps, and subsection (b) hereof shall be construed to apply to operators of automatic baggage or parcel checking machines. 74. Storing and Impounding. On every license to a person, firm or corporation to keep, for compensation, any house, yard or lot for storage, or other impounding, the tax shall be $25.00, and where the gross receipts exceed $2,000.00 the tax shall be 25c on each $100.00 in addition thereto. If the gross receipts on the operation under this section are included in a merchants license, issued to a bona fide mer- chant, then, this section shall not apply. 75. Street Vendors or Merchants. On every person, whether manufacturer or not, selling upon the street, or other public places, inflated balloons, plastic figures, toys, jewelry, and other small articles, the license tax shall be $25 per day. The Mayor shall, if he deems it necessary, designate the place of sale, or refuse the license. 76. Tailors and Cutters. Each person or firm conducting the business of tailoring or selling of dresses by sample shall be deemed a merchant and subject to Section 53, of this ordinance. 77. Taxicabs. Every person, firm or corporation engaged in the business of operating taxicabs in this City shall pay a license tax of 10c on each $100.00 of gross receipts for the preceding Calendar year. This tax shall be in addition to the FOR HIRE tag re- quired under Section 85. 78. Telegraph Companies. On telegraph companies or agents each for business done between this and other points within the State of Virginia, and not including any business done to or from points without the State, and not including business in which messages although to or from points within this state, pass through territory with- out the state, and not including any business done for the gov- ernment of the United States, its officers, or agents, a license tax of one hundred dollars ($100) shall be paid. Provided that any company taxed under this section whose receipts do not exceed three thousand dollars ($3,000.00) per annum, the tax shall be fifty dollars ($50). 79. Telephone Companies. On each telephone company the license tax shall be one- half of one per cent, on the gross receipts of such a company. The gross receipts on which percentage is charged shall include all phone service known as mutual, all revenue derived from long distance service, and all moneys derived from the use of the switch board by local lines, expressly excepting business done between this city and points without the state, and mes- sages sent to or received by the government of the United States or this state or their agents or officers. This license tax shall be assessable and payable in like manner as that of the State. 80. Theatricals. On every theatrical performance or any performance similar thereto, panoramas, or any public performance or ex- hibition of any kind there shall be paid five dollars ($5.00) for each performance or twenty five dollars ($25.00) per week of a continuous performance, if said public performance or exhibi- tion be given in a permanent building, and twenty-five dollars ($25.00) for each day and fifty dollars ($50.00) for each week of a continuous performance if said public performance or ex- hibition be given out-of-doors or in a tent or other temporary structure; provided, however, that this section shall not be construed to apply to performances or exhibitions for charit- able, educational, or benevolent purposes, and with the further exception of road or tab shows held in conjunction with the usual cinema attraction, where the price of admission for the entire performance does not exceed fifty cents. But on every such performance or exhibition, attendance upon which is so- licited by a barker or by public crying in the streets of the City, or in such a manner as to be heard on the streets of the City, there shall be paid twenty-five dollars ($25.00) per day. 81. Tobacco, Snuff, etc., Retailers. No person not a producer shall be allowed to sell by retail tobacco, 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 cigarettes shall be for said privilege a specific tax of five dollars ($5.00), which shall be assessed and collected as other assess- ments upon license, but which shall not be in lieu of merchant's license on sales. This section shall be construed to require of any person taking out this special license tax to sell tobacco, snuff, cigars or cigarettes a merchant's license in addition thereto based on amount of sales.