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AN ORDINANCE FOR IMPOSING AND COLLECTING LICENSES AND TAXES FOR THE EXERCISE OF CERTAIN PRIVILEGES WITHIN THE CITY OF CHARLOTTESVILLE FOR TWELVE MONTHS, COMMENCING THE FIRST DAY OF MAY, 1964 AND ENDING THE THIRTIETH DAY OF APRIL, 1965. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CHARLOTTESVILLE THAT THERE SHALL BE AN ANNUAL LICENSE TAX ASSESSED AND PAID BY ALL PERSONS, FIRMS, OR CORPORATIONS ENGAGED IN THE DIFFERENT OCCUPATIONS, PROFESSIONS, OR BUSINESSES NAMED IN THIS ORDINANCE AND ENUMERATED BELOW FOR THE YEAR BEGINNING THE FIRST DAY OF MAY, 1964 AND ENDING THE THIRTIETH DAY OF APRIL, 1965. 1. Advertising Distributors. Every person engaged in distributing advertisements for other parties than citizens of Charlottesville shall be known as advertising distributors, and shall pay an annual license tax of twenty dollars ($20). By advertising distributors, it is intended to designate any person who distributes in the City of Charlottesville, almanacs, pamphlets, or samples of medicine or other merchandise on the streets or from house to house of said city. 2. Advertising — Loud Speakers on Vehicles. For each vehicle used on the streets of the City for advertising by means of loud speakers, radio, or other mechanical equipment, there shall be an annual license fee of $100.00, which license fee shall not be prorated. The payment of this license fee shall not convey the privilege to the licensee of producing sound of such volume as to constitute a public nuisance, and the operation of such equipment shall at all times be subject to the direction of the Chief of Police. Permits shall be secured from the Chief of Police before exercising any privileges granted under this license. Non-transferable. 3. Agents — Books. On every agent for sale of books, maps, pictures, periodicals, printed pamphlets, or canvassers for the same, other than religious work, fifteen dollars ($15). Not transferable. 4. Agents — Books of Coupons. On every person or firm and on every agent of any person or firm selling coupon books to any other person or firm in this City which advertises for others and which entitles the possessor of such book or coupons to receive services or merchandise from the advertiser at no charge or at a reduced rate or charge, there shall be imposed a license tax of $250.00. Not transferable. 5. Agents — Canvassers. On all agents not otherwise provided for the license tax shall be fifteen dollars ($15). 6. Agents — Labor. On every labor agent engaged in hiring labor, all business to be transacted in his office, except by written or telephonic communication, the license tax shall be $25. If the business is transacted at any other place in the city outside of such office, the license tax shall be $500. 7. Agents — Non-Resident Fertilizer Companies. Every person acting as agent for the sale in this city of fertilizers manufactured by non-resident fertilizer companies, whether selling on commission or for other consideration, shall pay a specific license tax of twenty-five dollars per annum for each company represented. 8. Alcoholic Beverages. On every person producing or handling for sale any beverage, as defined and permitted by an Act of General Assembly of Virginia, approved March 7, 1934, and amendments thereto entitled “Alcoholic Beverage Control Act,” the annual license tax shall be as follows: For each Distiller’s License, for the manufacture of more than 5,000 gallons ................................................................ $500.00 For each Winery License ...................................................... $500.00 For each Brewery License .................................................... $500.00 For each Bottler’s License .................................................... $50.00 For each Wholesale Beer License ........................................ $250.00 For each Wholesale Wine Distributor’s License .................... $50.00 For each Retail Beer — on-premises License ........................ $100.00 For each Retail Beer — off-premises License ........................ $30.00 For each Retail Beer — on-and-off-premises License ............ $130.00 For each Retail Wine — off-premises License ...................... $40.00 For each Retail Wine and Beer — on-premises License ........ $150.00 For each Retail Wine and Beer — off-premises License ........ $70.00 For each Retail Wine and Beer — on-and-off-premises License $220.00 For each Retail Druggist’s License ...................................... $10.00 The above licenses shall not be in lieu of merchants’ licenses or restaurant licenses herein provided for and, in calculating merchants’ and restaurant licenses, sales of alcoholic beverages bought or sold, as the case may be, shall be included in determining the amount of such merchants’ and restaurant licenses; provided, however, that in the case of a beer wholesaler or wine distributor, in determining the wholesale merchants’ license tax there shall be disregarded purchases of wine or beer, as the case may be, to an amount which would be necessary to produce a wholesale merchants’ license tax equal to the wholesale beer license or wholesale wine distributor’s license, as the case may be, herein above provided. Not transferable. 9. Amusements. Each person, firm, or corporation engaged in the operation of any of the following places of amusement shall pay a license tax of twenty-five dollars ($25.00), and where the gross receipts, exclusive of excise and admission taxes, exceed $2,000.00, the tax shall be forty cents ($0.40) on each $100.00 in addition thereto: Bowling Alleys or Bowling Salon Golf Driving Range Miniature Automobile Track (Go Carts) Miniature Golf Course Moving Picture Theatre, including Drive-In Theatres Rebound Tumbling Center 10. Auctioneers — General. On every general auctioneer, sixty dollars ($60), whether he receives any compensation for his services or not. Under this license a person may sell any goods, wares, merchandise, or other things, including real estate, for the sale of which by an auctioneer no further license is elsewhere required. Not transferable. This section shall not apply to commissioners and receivers appointed by the courts, or to administrators, executors, guardians, trustees, and other fiduciaries while acting in a fiduciary capacity. 11. Automobile Washing and Polishing. Every person, firm, or corporation engaged in the business of washing, polishing, cleaning, oiling, and/or greasing automobiles, buses, trucks, trailers, or auto wagons, when such business is not conducted in connection with another licensed business, shall be deemed a retail merchant and pay the same license tax provided in Section 54. 12. Bakers — Retail and Home. Every person, firm, or corporation who shall conduct a bakery or manufacturing confectionery, selling the majority of the products thereof at retail, and persons who bake at home and sell their products for resale, shall pay a license tax of $25.00, and where the amount of gross receipts exceeds $2,000.00, the tax shall be 22 cents on each $100.00 in addition thereto. 13. Barbers, Beauty Shops, etc. Every person, firm, or corporation operating as a barber shop, beauty shop, manicurist, masseur, Turkish, Roman, or other like bath or parlor, or Health Studio, including bath services, physical culture, or reducing salon in this City, shall pay a license tax of twenty-five dollars ($25.00), and where the gross receipts exceed $2,000.00, the tax shall be twenty-five cents ($0.25) on each $100.00 in addition thereto. 14. Billboards and Wall Signs. (a) Every person, firm, or corporation engaged in the business of billboard painting or wall signs, or the rental of space for such business, shall pay for the privilege $40.00 and, in addition, $2.00 for each such billboard or wall sign in excess of 20. (b) Every person, firm, or corporation, excluding firms or corporations holding a franchise from the City of Charlottesville, engaged in the business of selling advertising space inside their buildings shall pay for the privilege an annual license tax of $25.00 and, where the gross receipts exceed $2,000.00, the tax shall be $0.25 on each $100.00 in addition thereto. 15. Billiards or Pool. On each license to operate billiard or pool parlors the tax shall be twenty dollars ($20.00) for each table used in the business. No license shall be issued without the annual written consent of the Mayor. License may be issued quarterly. 16. Bootblacks. For each chair or stand accommodating not more than one person the license shall be $2, and when a bench is used the license shall be $2 for each pair of footrests, for year or any part of year. 17. Bottling Works. On each and every person, firm, or corporation doing a bottling business in the City of soda water, pop, ginger ale, sarsaparilla, aerated water, fruit or vegetable juices, whether made with plain water or with aerated or carbonated water, when the output of the plant is 100 cases or less per day, the license tax shall be seventy-five dollars ($75), and when the output of the said plant is in excess of 100 cases per day, in addition to such sum of seventy-five dollars ($75), thirty-five dollars ($35) for each additional 100 cases of output or fraction thereof. The output of such plant shall be considered the average daily output of said plant, counting working days only, for the preceding calendar year. In the case of new plants, the output shall be estimated and any underestimate shall be subject to correction at the end of the year.