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2S2 49. Launderettes. On every person, firm or corporation who operates a laundry in which the customer pays rental for the u$e 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 shall sell 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 on or assignments of 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. If the principal business engaged in is manufacturing and machine work is incidental, the gross receipts may be reported and included in the manufacturer's tax. 53. Manufacturers, Processors. Every person conducting or engaging in any one or more manufactur- ing, or processing occupations, within the City for which no specific license is provided under any other section of this ordinance, including, but not by this particular enumeration limiting the above general descrip- tion, the following businesses or trades, shall pay for the privilege an annual license tax of $100.00 plus 3c for each $100.00 of gross receipts, as hereinafter defined, not in excess of $5,000,000.00 and lc for each $100.00 of such gross receipts in excess of $5,000,000.00 from the busi- . ness during the preceding calendar year. Asphalt, or asphalt products, bricks, marble goods, tombstones Awnings, sails or tents Barrels, crates, boxes, hogsheads, veneers, veneer and wood products Beds, bed springs, cots, mattresses, any Book publishers and binders AV Breads, cakes, pies, and other bakery products Burlap, and cotton bags and barrel covers Canneries Caskets, coffins, and burial v Cement and cement products Chemical or chemical products Cigarettes or tobacco products Clothing, hose, cotton, wool, silk, textile and teAle products Coffee roasting or tea blending, -4u" Confections Cork products and insulating materiF Fertilizers or guano Flavoring extracts and syps Food for livestock Furniture, novelties, and wodd products: cce ypsum and gypsum products e Cream Manufacturing, processing and assembling steel, iron and metal pr ducts, any or all Motor vehicles or parts thereof Paints Pasteurization and bottling of milk, cream, milk products Planing and rolling mills_ Processing peanuts and peanut products Processing soy beans Sashes, frames, blinds, or wood products, saw mills Other manufacturers and processors. 54. Medicines, Salves, etc.—Sale of on Street. a On every such license to carry or sell medicines, salves or liniments, on the streets, alleys, or elsewhere in this city, the tax shall be fifty dollars ($50) per day, but no such license shall be issued except by authority of the Mayor. Provided that this tax shall not apply to any person pay► ing merchants' license tax. 55. Merchants—Retail. Every person, firm or corporation engaged in the business of a retail merchant shall for each separate place of business conducted in the City of Charlottesville pay a license tax on all sales made during the pre- ceding calendar year as follows: If the amount of sales shall not exceed $2,000.00 the tax shall be $25.00. On all sales over $2,000.00 and not exceeding $100,000.00 the tax shall be twenty-five cents (25c) on the $100.00 in excess of $2,000.00. On all sales in excess of $100,000.00 the tax shall be twenty cents .(20c) on the $100.00. Where any person, firm or corporation engaged in the business of a retail merchant makes charges for services rendered in connection with such business, including repair work, the gross amount received for such services shall be included in the sales on which the merchants' license tax is calculated, unles's a separate license tax is paid to the City in con- nection with the furnishing of such services. 56. Merchants—Wholesale. Every person, firm or oWoration engaged in the business of a wholesale merchant shall for eaftseparate place of business conducted in the City of Charlottesville pay a license tax on all purchases made during the preceding calendar year as follows: If the amount of purchases shall not exceed $10,000.00 the tax shall be $75.00. On all purchases over $10,000.00 and less than $50,000.00 the tax shall be thirty cents (30c) on the $100.00 in excess of $10,000.00. On all purchases in excess of $50,000.00 the tax shall be sixteen cents (16c) on the $100.00. 57. Monuments and Tombstones. Each person, firm or corporation or agent conducting the business of making or selling tombstones, monuments, etc., shall pay a retail merchant's license, which license shall be based on the gross receipts of such person, firm or corporation. 58. Moving Picture Shows. Each person, firm or corporation engaged" in the operation of a moving picture theater shall pay a license tax of__________ _________________$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. 59. Musicians—Itinerant. Every itinerant musician performing in the streets of this city, such as organ -grinders, bag -pipe blowers, etc., shall pay a specific license tax of twenty-five dollars ($25) per day. 60. Outside Agents. Any person residing or having his or their principal office within the State who is not a licensed merchant in the City of Charlottesville who shall sell or offer to sell, either direct or by sample card or representation, or who shall solicit or take orders for the sale of any goods, wares or me- chandise to any purchaser within the City, except to a licensed merchant shall pay for the privilege a license tax on gross sales so made during the preceding calendar year as follows: If the amount of such gross sales shall not exceed $2,000.00 the tax shall be ------------------------ $25.00. On all such gross sales over $2,000.00 and not exceeding $100,000.00 the tax shall be 25c on the $100.00 in excess of $2,000.00. On all such sales in excess of $100,000.00 the tax shall be twenty cents (20c) on the $100.00. 61. Pawnbrokers. On exery license to a pawnbroker the specific license tax shall be five hundred dollars ($500) for one year or fractional part thereof. Not transferable. 62. (a) Peddlers. Any person who shall carry from place to place, any goods, wares, or merchandise, and offer to sell or barter the same, or actually sell or barter the same, shall be deemed a peddler, and any person licensed as a peddler may sell any personal property a merchant may sell, or he may exchange the same for other articles. A peddlers' license shall not be transferable, and any person so licensed shall endorse his name on said license, and such license shall confer authority to sell within the City of Charlottesville. U 0 •