1963 ORDINANCES (through August)

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4 85 56. Merchants—Wholesale. son, firm or corporation, (other than a distributor and/or vender of Every person, firm or corporation engaged in the business of a ; motor vehicle fuels and petroleum products, tobacco, or seafood, a farr, a farmer's cooperative association, a producer, ora manu- wholesale merchant shall for each separate place of business conduct- facturer taxable on capital by the State of Virginia), who or which On all purchases ed in the City of Charlottesville pay a license ta4.4 peddles goods, wares, and merchandise by selling and delivering the made during the preceding calendar yeAS 4s follows: same at the same time to licensed dealers or retailers at other than a If the amount of purchases shall noftle eed $10,000.00 the tax shall be $50.00. 7, definite place of business operated by the seller. The annual city license tax hereby imposed, as aforesaid, on On all purchases over $10,000.00 and less than $50,000.00 the every such person, firm or corporation, peddling, as aforesaid, is in.. tax shall be twenty-five cents (25c) on each $100.00 in excess of the sum of two hundred seventy-five dollars, for each vehicle used in $10,000.00. such business, and the said license, shall not be issued quarterly, nor On all purchases in excess of $50,00u.00 the tax shall be sixteen shall it be transferable, nor shall the to be subject to proration; pro - cents (16c) on each $100.00 vided, however, that in the case of any person engaged in business as a wholesale merchant and purchasing a city wholesale merchant's 57. Monuments and Tombstones. license who is also taxable hereunder, the tax hereby imposed shall be Each person, firm or corporation or agent conducting the busi- twenty-five dollars ( $25.00) for each vehicle used in such business. ness of making or selling tombstones, monuments, etc., shall pay a - Every vehicle used by any license hereunder shall have con - retail merchant's license, which license shall be based on the gross re- spicuously displayed thereon the name, of the person, firm or corpora- tion using the same, with the post office address of the licensee, and ceipts of such person, firm or corporation. the license hereby required shall be conspicuously displayed on each - vehicle where used in such business. 58. Motor Freight Terminals. Every person, firm or corporation claiming to be a distributor and/or vendor of motor vehicle fuels and petroleum products, a Every person, firm or corporation maintaining or operating in farmer, a dealer in forest products or tobacco, or seafood, a producer, the City of Charlottesville any freight terminal for the purpose of re- or a manufacturer taxable on capital by the State of Virginia, and sell- ceiving or discharging freight carried or to be carried by any motor ing and delivering at he same time, or offering to sell and deliver at vehicle freight carried shall pay a specific license tax of $250.00. the same time, to licensed dealers or retailers, such goods, wares or merchandise, shall upon request of any police, tax or revenue officer 59. Musicians—Itinerant. furnish evidence of his or its claim other than his or its mere state - Every itinerant musician performing in the streets of this city, ment, that he or it is exempt from the provisions of this subsection, ' such as or an -grinders bag -pipe blowers etc. shall a a specific g. pay P and failure to furnish such evidence shall be sufficient ground for license tax of twenty-five dollars ($25) per day. charging the person operating the vehicle with the violation of this subsection, and failure to furnish such evidence shall be sufficient 60. Outside Agents. ground for charging the person operating the vehicle with the viola- tion of this subsection; and in any prosecution for a violation of this Any person residing or having his or their principal office within subsection, the claim aforesaid must be corroborated by satisfactory the State who is not a licensed merchant in the City of Charlottesville evidence. The exemption hereby accorded a distributor and/or vendor who shall sell or offer to sell, either direct or by sample card or repre- of motor vehicle fuels and petroleum products and a dealer in forest sentation, or who shall solicit or take orders for the sale of any goods, products or tobacco, is restricted to such peddling of motor vehicle wares or merchandise to any purchaser within the City, except to a fuels and petroleum products and forest products, and tobacco; and licensed merchant shall pay for the privilege a license tax on gross in the case of a farmer, a producer, or a manufacturer taxable on sales so made during the preceding calendar year as follows: capital by this state, the exemption is restricted to such peddling of If the amount of such gross sales shall not exceed $2,000.00 the goods wares and merchandise actually manufactured, produced or tax shall be ........................$25.00. grown by the seller. - � u1 On all such gross sales over $2,000.00 the tax shall be 30c on r A peddler with the meaning of this sribsection, is any person, N each $100.00 in excess of $2,000.00. firm, or corporation, with or which, at other than a definite place of business operated by the seller, shall sell, or offer to sell, goods, wares, 6� . Pawnbrokers. _. K or merchandise to licensed dealers or retailers, and at the same time Q On every license to a pawnbroker the specific license tax shall be ti of such sale or exposure for sale, shall deliver, or offer to deliver, the five hundred dollars ( $500) for one year or fractional part thereof. r►`` goods, wares, or merchandise to the buyer, and any delivery made on Not transferable. ol the day of sale shall be construed as equivalent to delivery at the time 1 of sale. 62. (a) Peddlers. Every person, firm or corporation claiming exemption from the Any person who shall carry from place to place, any goods, provision of this subsection on the ground that he or it is delivering goods, wares, or merchandise previously sold to the customer, shall, wares, or marchandise, and offer to sell or barter the same, or actually upon request of any police, tax or revenue office, furnish evidence of sell or barter the same, shall be deemed a peddler, and any person license as a peddler may sell, or he may exchange the same for other his or its claim other than his or its mere statement, which evidence may be an invoice, and the amount and price thereof, and failure to articles. furnish such evidence shall be sufficient ground for charging the per- A peddler's license shall not be transferable, and any person so son operating the vehicle with a violation of this subsection; and in licensed shall endorse his name on said license, and such license shall any prosecution for a violation of this subsection, the claim aforesaid confer authority to sell within the City of Charlottesville. must be corroborated by satisfactory evidence. iv Any peddler who shall peddle for sale or sell or barter without a - Every person, firm or corporation violating any provision of this license shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction thereof subsection shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be fined not less than twenty-five dollars, and not more than one shall be fined not less than twenty-five nor more than one hundred dollars for each offense, and each day's violation of any provision of hundred dollars for each offense; and any person selling or offering to this subsection shall be deemed a separate offense. sell as a peddler shall exhibit his license on demand of any citizen of this city; and upon his failure or refusal to do so he shall be subject to 62. (c) Peddlers—Producers' Certificate. the penalties for peddling without a license. 1. No city license shall be required of peddlers of ice, wood, All persons who do not keep a regular place of business ( whether meat, milk, butter, eggs, poultry, fish, oysters, game, vegetables, it be a house or a vacant lot, or elsewhere), open at all times in regu- fruit, or other family supplies of a perishable nature grown or pro - lar business hours and at the same place, who shall offer for sale duced by them and not purchased by them for sale. goods, wares and merchandise, shall be deemed peddlers under this section. All persons who keep a regular place of business, open at all 2. But every such peddler of family supplies of a perishable times in regular hours and at the same place, who shall elsewhere nature grown or produced by him and not purchased by him for sale than at such place of business; personally, or through their agent, shall on or before January first of each year file with the Commis - offer for sale or sell, and at the time of such offering for sale, deliver sioner of Revenue of this city a certificate in duplicate under oath in goods, wares and merchandise, shall also be deemed peddlers as which shall be given the name and post office address of the applicant, • above, but this section shall not apply to those who sell or offer for the location of the land on which the family supplies of a perishable be the is sale in person or by their employees, ice, wood, meats, milk, butter, nature are produced, or are to produced whether applicant eggs, poultry, fish, oysters game, vegetable, fruit or other family the owner thereof, or renter, and in the latter case, the name of the supplies of a perishable nature grown or produced by them and. ,not landlord or owner and the time from which and to which the lease is purchased by them for sale. to run. For the privilege of peddling or bartering in the Cit of:,. r- P g P g g Y lottesville, there shall be paid one 'hundred dollars for : each pens 'o '' _ 3. Upon receipt of such certificate and such other evidence un- der oath as may be sufficient to establish the fact that the applicant is engaged or employed in the City of Charlottesville, when he travels on ' ` entitled to the certificate, the Commissioner of Revenue shall endorse, foot, and when he peddles otherwise than on foot, the tax shall be two on one copy of such certificate the fact and date of its filing, and shall hundred dollars, except that tax on peddlers of ice, wood, meat, milk, butter, eggs, poultry, fish, oysters, game vegetables, fruit or other dleiver such copy to the applicant, and such applicant shall thereafter family supplies of a perishable nature not grown or produced by at all times while he is engaged in peddling within this city, have such them, shall be fifty dollars for each vehicle used in such peddling in copy in his possession and upon request by an officer of the City the City of Charlottesville. charged with enforcing of the license ordinance, exhibit such certifi- Every vehicle used in peddling as aforesaid shall have conspicu- cate. The Commissioner of Revenue may administer the oaths re- ously displayed thereon the name of the peddler using the same, to- gether with the street and number, city and state of his residence. quired by this subsection. * x 4. Any officer charged with the enforcement of the license otadl' Nothing in this section shall be construed to require of any nance of this city may at any time question any peddler claiming ex- farmer a peddler's license for the privilege of selling or peddling farm emption from city license taxation and may require of such peddler products, wood, or charcoal grown or produced by him. an affidavit in support of any claim made by such peddler that the Every license issued under this section shall expire on the produce then in or on his vehicle was grown or produced by hirn. 5, The word "peddler" or "peddlers," as used in this subsection thirtieth day of April of each year. No license issued under this section ,hall be construed as including their bona fide employees. shall be prorated. 6• Any Peddler failing to exhibit such certificate in violation of The license taxes imposed by this subsection shall not apply to this subsection, or making any false 4tatement in the certificate or affi- any peddler who is covered by subsection (b) of this section, and davit aforesaid, or by permitting the certificate obtained by him to be who sells to license dealers or retailers only. used in -,the sale of any family supplies of a perishable nature not 62. (b) Peddlers of Goods, Wares or Merchandise Who Sell grown 'or.'produced by him, shall upon conviction, be fined not less • to Licensed Dealers. than fivel.dollars nor more than fifty dollars for each offense, and upon There is hereby imposed an license tax failure to pay the said fine shall be confined in the city, jail for not less annual city on every- per- than ten days nor more than thirty days.