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29. Dance Halls. <br />On every license to a person or firm to conduct a dance hall in which <br />dancing is to be allowed, where an admission fee is charged or a charge <br />is made for participating in such dancing, the tax shall be $50, and no <br />such license shall be granted until such person or persons shall have <br />secured the consent of the Mayor, who shall satisfy himself that the <br />person or persons applying are proper persons to conduct such hall, and <br />r that the location is suitable for such purpose, and it is further provided <br />that any such dance hall shall be subject to such rules and regulations <br />as are now or may hereafter be prescribed by the Council. Not transferable. <br />30. Dealers in Pistols, Dirks, and Bowie Knives. <br />No person, firm or corporation shall sell pistols, dirks, or bowie <br />knives without having first procured a license therefor. <br />Every person, firm or corporation engaged in the business of selling <br />pistols, dirks, or bowie knives, or who shall hereafter engage in such busi- <br />ness, shall pay for the privilege of transacting said business a specific <br />license tax of five dollars ($5.00), and no such license shall be issued for <br />any less period than one year nor shall there be any abatement in any <br />instance of the tax upon such license by reason of the fact that the person <br />or persons so licensed shall have exercised such license calling for a <br />period of less than one year. Applicants for license to deal in pistols, <br />dirks and bowie knives must have the written consent of the Mayor. <br />Dealers must report all sales to the Chief of Police monthly, giving names <br />and addresses of purchasers. <br />31. Dental Laboratory. <br />On each person, firm or corporation engaged in operating a dental <br />laboratory the tax shall be ------------------------ $25.00, and where the gross re- <br />ceipts exceed $2,000.00 the tax shall be 10c on each $100.00 in addition <br />thereto. <br />32. Electricity. <br />Every person, firm or corporation generating or selling or offering <br />for sale or delivering electricity for light or power or heat or any other <br />commercial uses shall pay a license tax of one-half of one per cent of <br />the gross receipts of such person, firm or corporation, based upon receipts <br />from such business during the preceding calendar year. In applying for <br />such license a statement of such receipts shall be submitted to the Com- <br />missioner of Revenue. <br />33. Exterminators. <br />Every person, firm or corporation engaged in the business of exterm- <br />inating insect or animal pests in this City shall pay a license tax of -------- <br />------------ $25.00, and where the gross receipts exceed $2,000.00 the tax <br />shall be 25c on each $100.00 in addition thereto. <br />34. Florists. <br />On every person or firm engaged as a florist, a specific license tax <br />of thirty-five dollars ($35.00) shall be imposed, and if they engage in <br />buying and selling, they shall be deemed merchants and shall pay ac- <br />cordingly. <br />35. Flour and Meal Manufacture. <br />On every license to a manufacturer of flour or meal, the tax shall be <br />twenty-five dollars ($25) for each license. But when such manufacturer <br />deals in flour, meal or other grain products other than his own manu- <br />facture he shall be required to procure a merchants' license graduated <br />by the amount of such purchases. <br />36. Fortune Tellers. <br />Every person practicing the art of divination, fortune telling, palm- <br />istry, astrology, or phrenology who shall practice the same in this city, <br />shall pay a tax of $7,500.00 per year. NOT PRORATED. <br />37. Furniture Upholsterer or Repairer. <br />On every person, firm or corporation engaged in the business of up- <br />holstering or repairing furniture the license tax shall be -------------------- $25.00 <br />and where the gross receipts exceed $2,000.00 the tax shall be 25c on <br />each $100.00 in addition thereto. <br />If the licensee operates as a retail merchant the gross receipts under <br />this section may be reported in the merchants license. <br />38. Garage Storage. <br />Every person, firm or corporation who shall keep a garage for storage <br />of automobiles shall include the receipts for same and report as a retail <br />merchant. <br />Shops for repairing shall be required to pay a license tax as provided <br />in section 68. <br />39. Gasoline and Other Petroleum Products Outside City. <br />Any person, firm or corporation whose storage tanks are located <br />outside of the corporate limits of the city who transports gasoline or other <br />petroleum products of like nature on or through the streets of this city <br />for sale or delivery to wholesale or retail merchants for resale in this city <br />shall pay a license tax for the privilege of doing such business in this city, <br />the same to be graduated by the amount of sales or delivered price made <br />by him or it of such commodities sold or delivered in this City during <br />the next preceding year, or, in the case of starting business during the <br />year, the estimated amount of sales which will be so made during the <br />balance of the license year, the amount to be paid to be the same as that <br />required of a retail merchant. <br />This section shall not apply to a pergon, firm, or corporation who <br />or which has paid or is assessable a business license under some other <br />section of this ordinance. <br />40. Hobby Horses, Merry -Go -Rounds, Ferris Wheels, Etc. <br />On every license to keep a hobby horse, merry-go-round, ferris wheel <br />or other like amusement, except as herein provided, the tax shall be $50.00 <br />per week, and no license shall be issued under this section for a shorter <br />period than one week. But if any such amusement is conducted solely <br />for amusement purposes without charge, an annual tax of one hundred <br />fifty dollars ( $150.00) shall be imposed in lieu of such weekly tax, pro- <br />vided such hobby horse, merry-go-round, ferris wheel or like amuse- <br />ment shall not be accompanied with music or other audible sound which <br />can be heard a greater distance than three hundred ( 300) feet from <br />the location of such hobby horse, merry-go-round, Ferris wheel, or other <br />like amusement. <br />41. Hotels. <br />I <br />• <br />Any person who keeps a public inn or lodging house of more than <br />ten bedrooms where transient guests are lodged for pay shall be deemed <br />for the purpose of this section to be engaged in the business of keeping <br />a hotel. For the purpose of this section a transient guest is one who puts <br />up for less than one week at such hotel, but such a house is no less a <br />hotel because some of its guests put up for longer periods than one week. <br />For the privilege of operating such business the license tax shall be -------- <br />------------ $25.00, and where the gross receipts exceed $2,000.00 the tax <br />shall be 30c on each $100.00 in addition thereto. <br />The payment of the license tax provided by this section shall not <br />exempt the person paying such tax from the payment of a restaurant or <br />merchants license tax as provided in this ordinance if a restaurant, dining <br />room or cigar stand is operated in connection with said hotel. <br />42. Ice Cream or Sherbet -Manufacture for Retail Sale. <br />Every person, firm or corporation engaging .in the manufacture of <br />ice cream or sherbet for resale in his own establishment shall include the <br />gross receipts for same in his retail merchants license. <br />43. Itinerant and Distressed Merchandise Vendors. <br />All persons bringing to and exhibiting for sale to consumer at retail <br />in the City in trucks, in temporary places or fixed places of sale, goods <br />or merchandise of any character as bankrupt, consignee, trustee, railroad <br />wreck, fire slaughter stock, leftover, exposition stock, or stock of like <br />character, and all itinerant vendors doing business in the City shall pay <br />for the privilege a license tax of $500.00 per week, and no license shall <br />{ be issued under this section for a fraction of a week. <br />! "Itinerant vendors," as used in this ordinance, shall be construed to <br />mean and include all persons, whether principal, agent, or salesman, who <br />engage in temporary or transient business in the City in one or more <br />places, and who for the purpose of carrying on such business hire, lease or <br />occupy any building, structure, truck or other place for the exhibition or <br />sale of such goods or merchandise. <br />• <br />44. Junk Dealers. <br />On every license to a junk dealer the tax shall be fifty dollars ($50) <br />and on every person who shall engage in the business of buying junk or <br />other matter for a junk dealer or for sale to a junk dealer, the tax shall be <br />thirty dollars ($30) . Where such a dealer engages in buying and selling <br />of wool, hides or furs, he shall pay a merchants' tax in addition. <br />45. Laboratories -Animal. <br />On businesses for the purpose of preparing cats, dogs, frogs or <br />other animals for Educational or Scientific purposes the License Tax shall <br />be $15.00. <br />46. Laundries. <br />(a) On every person, firm or corporation engaged in the operation <br />of a laundry other than by hand the license tax shall be --------------------$25.00, <br />and where the gross receipts exceed $2,000.00 the tax shall be 15c on <br />each $100.00 in addition thereto. <br />(b) On every person, firm or corporation operating a hand laundry <br />the tax shall be--------------------------------------------------------------------------------$20.00 <br />But nothing in this section shall be construed to impose a license tax <br />upon persons who wash bed clothing, wearing apparel, etc., without <br />laundry machinery and who do not keep shops or other regular places <br />of business for laundry purposes. <br />47. Laundries -Dry Cleaning -Pressing and Dyeing -Non - <br />Resident. ' <br />On every person, firm or corporation ( other than a laundry, pressing, <br />dyeing or dry cleaning establishment located in the City of Charlottes- <br />ville) engaged in soliciting general laundry, dyeing, pressing, or dry clean- <br />ing work, including towel or linen service, or the renting of towels for <br />compensation, where said person, firm or corporation does the laundry, <br />dyeing, pressing, or dry cleaning work thereon outside of the City, or <br />has it done outside of the City ---------------------------- $250.00 per annum. <br />Provided, however, that if the business of such person, firm, or corp- <br />oration shall consist only of cleaning of rugs, carpets and similar articles, <br />the license tax shall be $100.00 per annum, and provided further that <br />if the business of such person, firm or corporation shall consist only of <br />furnishing diaper service, the license tax shall be $150.00 per annum. <br />48. Laundries and Other Concerns Supplying Automobile <br />Covers, Cleaning Cloths, Uniforms and Wearing Apparels. <br />• <br />(a) On every person engaged in the business of supplying cloths <br />for temporary protection of automobiles and cleaning the same or any <br />other wiper cloths, there shall be a specific license tax of $25.00. <br />(b) On every person engaged in the business of supplying, on a <br />rental or other similar basis, uniforms or wearing apparel, there shall be <br />a specific license tax of $25.00. <br />49. Launderettes. <br />On every person, firm or corporation who operates a laundry in <br />which the customer pays rental for the use of washing machines at such <br />place of business a license tax of -------------------- $25.00 and where the gross <br />receipts exceed $2,000.00 the tax shall be 25c on each $100.00 in addition <br />thereto. <br />50. Livestock Brokers. <br />Every dealer who shall buy livestock for the purpose of selling or <br />shall sell livestock purchased by him shall pay a specific license tax of <br />$100.00 per annum. This section shall not apply to dealers who pay a <br />Merchant's License Tax. <br />51. Loans. <br />On each person, firm or corporation, other than a pawnbroker, mak- <br />ing loans secured by orders on or assignments of the time or wages of any <br />employee, or making loans secured by chattel mortgages or liens on <br />personal property or household furniture or licensed to do business under <br />the provisions of the State Uniform Small Loan Act the license tax shall • <br />be ------------------------ $25.00, and where the gross receipts exceed $2,000.00 the <br />tax shall be 50c on each $100.00 in addition thereto. <br />52. Machine Shops. <br />On every person, firm or corporation who shall engage in the business, <br />of operating a machine shop the tax shall be ------------------------------------ $25.006 <br />and where the gross receipts exceed $2,000.00 the tax shall be 25c on <br />each $100.00 in addition thereto. <br />