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