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ten bedrooms where transient guests are lodged for pay shall be
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<br /> deemed for the purpose of this section to be engaged in the business
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<br /> of keeping a hotel.
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<br /> For the purpose of this section a transient guest is one who puts
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<br /> up for less than one week at such hotel, but such a house is no less
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<br /> a hotel because some of its guests put up for longer periods than one week.
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<br /> For the privilege of operating such business the license tax shall be
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<br /> ____________________________________ $25.00,
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<br /> and where the gross receipts exceed $2,000.00 the tax
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<br /> shall be 30c on each $100.00 in addition thereto.
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<br /> The payment of the license tax provided by this section shall not
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<br /> exempt the person paying such tax from the payment of a restaurant or
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<br /> merchants license tax as provided in this ordinance if a restaurant,
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<br /> dining room or cigar stand is operated in connection with said hotel.
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<br /> 41. Ice Cream or Sherbet—Manufacture for Retail Sale.
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<br /> Every person, firm or corporation eng i,pg in the manufacture of
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<br /> ice cream or sherbet for resale in his own establishment shall include the
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<br /> gross receipts for same in his retail merchants license.
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<br /> 42. Itinerant and Distressed Merchandise Vendors.
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<br /> All persons bringing to and exhibiting for sale to consumer at retail
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<br /> in the City in trucks, in temporary places or fixed places of sale, goods
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<br /> or merchandise of any character as bankrupt, consignee, trustee, railroad
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<br /> wreck, fire slaughter stock, leftover, exposition stock, or stock of like
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<br /> character, and all itinerant vendors doing business in the City shall pay
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<br /> for the privilege a license tax of $500.00 per week, and no license shall
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<br /> be issued under this section for a fraction of a week.
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<br /> "Itinerant vendors," as used in this ordinance, shall be construed to
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<br /> mean and include all persons, whether principal, agent, or salesman, who
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<br /> engage in temporary or transient business in the City in one or more
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<br /> places, and who for the purpose of carrying on such business hire, lease or
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<br /> occupy any building, structure, truck or other place for the exhibition or
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<br /> sale of such goods or merchandise.
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<br /> 43. Junk Dealers.
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<br /> On every license to a junk dealer the tax shall be fifty dollars ($50)
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<br /> and on every person who shall engage in the business of buying junk or
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<br /> other matter for a junk dealer or for sale to a junk dealer, the tax shall be
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<br /> thrity dollars ($30). Where such a dealer engauges in buying and selling
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<br /> of wool, hides or furs, he shall pay a merchants' tax in addition.
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<br /> 44. Laundries.
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<br /> (a) On every person, firm or corporation engaged in the operation
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<br /> of a laundry other than by hand the license t Shall be _____________ $25.00,
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<br /> and where the gross receipts exceed $2,000.00 the tax shall be 15c on each
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<br /> $100.00 in addition thereto.
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<br /> (b) On every person, firm or corporation operating a hand laundry
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<br /> the tax shall be __________________________________________________ $20.00
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<br /> But nothing in this section shall be construed to impose a license tax
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<br /> upon persons who wash bed clothing, wearing apparel, etc., without
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<br /> laundry machinery and who do not keep shops or other regular places
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<br /> of business for laundry purposes.
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<br /> 45. Laundries Dry Cleaning—Pressing and Dyeing—Non-Resident.
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<br /> On every person, firm or corporation (other than a laundry, pressing,
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<br /> dyeing or dry cleaning establishment located in the City of Charlottes-
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<br /> ville) engaged in soliciting general laundry, dying, pressing, or dry clean-
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<br /> ing work, including towel or linen service, or the renting of towels for
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<br /> compensation, where said person, firm or corporation does the laundry,
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<br /> dyeing, pressing, or dry cleaning work thereon outside of the City, or
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<br /> has it done outside of the City __________________________ $250.00 per annum.
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<br /> Provided, however, that if the business of such person, firm, or corp-
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<br /> oration shall consist only of cleaning of rugs, carpets and similar articles,
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<br /> the license tax shall be $100.00 per annum, and provided further that
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<br /> if the business of such person, firm or corporation shall consist only of
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<br /> furnishing diaper service, the license tax shall be $150.00 per annum.
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<br /> 46. Laundries and Other Concerns Supplying Automo
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<br /> C Covers, Cleaning Cloths, Uniforms and Wearing Apparal
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<br /> (a) On every person engaged in the business of supplying cloths
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<br /> for temporary protection of automobiles and cleaning the same or any
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<br /> other wiper cloths, there shall be a specific license tax of $25.00.
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<br /> (b) On every person engaged in the business of supplying, on a
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<br /> rental or other similar basis, uniforms or wearing apparel, there - shall be
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<br /> a specific license tax of $25.00.
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<br /> 47. Laundrettes.
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<br /> On every person, firm or corporation who operates a laundry in
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<br /> which the customer pays rental for the use of washing machine at such
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<br /> place of business a license tax of ____________________________ $25.00 and where the gross
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<br /> receipts exceed $2,000.00 the tax shall be 25c on each $100.00 in addition
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<br /> thereto.
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<br /> 48. Livestock Brokers.
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<br /> Every dealer who shall buy livestock for the purpose of selling or
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<br /> shall sell livestock purchased by him shall pay a specific license tax of
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<br /> $100.00 per annum.
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<br /> This section shall not apply to dealers who pay a
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<br /> Merchant's License Tax.
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<br /> 49. Loans.
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<br /> On each person, firm or corporation, other than a pawnbroker, mak-
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<br /> ing loans secured by orders on or assignments of the time or wages of any
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<br /> employee, or making loans secured by chattel mortgages or liens on
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<br /> personal property or household furniture or licensed to do business under
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<br /> the provisions of the State Uniform Small Loan Act the license tax shall
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<br /> tax shall be 50c on each $100.00 in add
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<br /> 50. Machine Shops.
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<br /> On every person, firm or corporation who shall engage in the business
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<br /> of operating a machine shop the tax shall be ______________________________ $25.00,
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<br /> and where the gross receipts exceed $2,000.00 the tax shall be 25c on
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<br /> each $100.00 in addition thereto.
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<br /> If the principal business engaged in is manufacturing and machine
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<br /> work is incidental, the gross receipts may be reported and included in
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<br /> the manufacturer's tax.
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<br /> 51. Manufacturers, Processors.
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<br /> Every person conducting or engaging in any one or more manufactur-
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<br /> ing, or processing occupations, within the City for which no specific
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<br /> license is provided under any other section of this ordinance, including,
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<br /> but not by this particular enumeration limiting the above general descrip-
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<br /> tion, the following businesses or trades, shall pay for the privilege an
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<br /> annual license tax of $100.00 plus 3c for each $100.00 of gross receipts,
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<br /> as hereinafter defined, not in
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<br /> excess of $5,000,000.00 and for each
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<br /> $100.00 of such gross receipts in excess of $5,000,000.00 from the busi-
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<br /> ness during the preceding calendar year.
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<br /> Asphalt, or asphalt products, bricks, marble goods, tombstones
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<br /> Awnings, sails or tents
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<br /> Barrels, crates, boxes, hogsheads, veneers, veneer and wood products
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<br /> Beds, bed springs, cots,
<br /> mattresses, any or all
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<br /> Book publishers and binders
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<br /> Breads, cakes, pies, and other bakery products
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<br /> Burlap, and cotton bags
<br /> and barrel covers
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<br /> Canneries
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<br /> Caskets, coffins, and burial vaults
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<br /> Cement and cement products
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<br /> Chemicals or chemical products
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<br /> Cigarettes or tobacco products
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<br /> Clothing,
<br /> hose, cotton, wool, silk, textile and textile products
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<br /> Coffee roasting or tea blending
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<br /> Confections
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<br /> Cork products and insulating materials
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<br /> Fertilizers or guano
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<br /> Flavoring extracts and syrups
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<br /> Food for livestock
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<br /> Furniture, novelties, and wood products
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<br /> Gypsum and gypsum
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<br /> Ice
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<br /> Ice Cream
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<br /> Manufacturing, processing and assembling steel, iron and metal pro-
<br /> ducts, any or all
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<br /> Motor vehicles or parts thereof
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<br /> Paints
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<br /> Pasteurization and bottling of milk, cream, milk products
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<br /> Planning and rolling mills
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<br /> Processing peanuts and peanut products
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<br /> Processing soy beans
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<br /> Sashes, frames, blinds, or wood products, saw mills
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<br /> Other, manufacturers and
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<br /> processors.
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<br /> 52. Medicines, Salves, etc—Sale of on Street.
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<br /> On every such license to curry or sell medicines, salves or liniments
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