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<br />56. Merchants—Wholesale.
<br />Every person, firm or corporation engaged in the business of a
<br />wholesale merchant shall for each separate place of business conduct-
<br />ed in the City of Charlottesville pay a license tax on all purcnases
<br />made during the preceding calendar year as follows:
<br />If the amount of purchases shall not exceed $10,000.00 the tax
<br />shall be $50.00.
<br />On all purchases over $10,000.00 and less than $50,000.00 the
<br />tax shall be twenty-five cents (25c) on each $100.00 in excess of
<br />$10,000.00.
<br />On all purchases in excess of $50,00u.00 the tax shall be sixteen
<br />cents (16c) on each $100.00
<br />57. Monuments and Tombstones.
<br />Each person, firm or corporation or agent conducting the busi-
<br />ness of making or selling tombstones, monuments, etc., shall pay a
<br />retail merchant's license, which license shall be based on the gross re-
<br />ceipts of such person, firm or corporation.
<br />58. Motor Freight Terminals.
<br />Every person, firm or corporation maintaining or operating in
<br />the City of Charlottesville any freight terminal for the purpose of re-
<br />ceiving or discharging freight carried or to be carried by any motor
<br />vehicle freight carried shall pay a specific license tax of $250.00.
<br />59. Musicians—Itinerant.
<br />Every itinerant musician performing in the streets of this city,
<br />such as organ -grinders, bag -pipe blowers, etc., shall pay a specific
<br />license tax of twenty-five dollars ($25) per day.
<br />60. Outside Agents.
<br />Any person residing or having his or their principal office within
<br />the State who is not a licensed merchant in the City of Charlottesville
<br />who shall sell or offer to sell, either direct or by sample card or repre-
<br />sentation, or who shall solicit or take orders for the sale of any goods,
<br />wares or merchandise to any purchaser within the City, except to a
<br />licensed merchant shall pay for the privilege a license tax on gross
<br />sales so made during the preceding calendar year as follows:
<br />If the amount of such gross sales shall not exceed $2,000.00 the
<br />tax shall be ........................$25.00.
<br />On all such gross sales over $2,000.00 the tax shall be 30c on
<br />each $100.00 in excess of $2,000.00.
<br />61. Pawnbrokers.
<br />On every license to a pawnbroker the specific license tax shall be
<br />five hundred dollars ( $500) for one year or fractional part thereof.
<br />Not transferable.
<br />62. (a) Peddlers.
<br />Any person who shall carry from place to place, any goods,
<br />wares, or marchandise, and offer to sell or barter the same, or actually
<br />sell or barter the same, shall be deemed a peddler, and any person
<br />license as a peddler may sell, or he may exchange the same for other
<br />articles.
<br />A peddler's license shall not be transferable, and any person so
<br />licensed shall endorse his name on said license, and such license shall
<br />confer authority to sell within the City of Charlottesville.
<br />Any peddler who shall peddle for sale or sell or barter without a
<br />license shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction thereof
<br />shall be fined not less than twenty-five dollars, and not more than one
<br />hundred dollars for each offense; and any person selling or offering to
<br />sell as a peddler shall exhibit his license on demand of any citizen of
<br />this city; and upon his failure or refusal to do so he shall be subject to
<br />the penalties for peddling without a license.
<br />All persons who do not keep a regular place of business ( whether
<br />it be a house or a vacant lot, or elsewhere) , open at all times in regu-
<br />lar business hours and at the same place, who shall offer for sale
<br />goods, wares and merchandise, shall be deemed peddlers under this
<br />section. All persons who keep a regular place of business, open at all
<br />times in regular hours and at the same place, who shall elsewhere
<br />than at such place of business, personally, or through their agent,
<br />offer for sale or sell, and at the time of such offering for sale, deliver
<br />goods, wares and merchandise, shall also be deemed peddlers as
<br />above, but this section shall not apply to those who sell or offer for
<br />sale in person or by their employees, ice, wood, meats, milk, butter,
<br />eggs, poultry, fish, oysters game, vegetable, fruit or other family
<br />supplies of a perishable nature grown or produced by them and not
<br />purchased by them for sale.
<br />For the privilege of peddling or bartering in the City of Char-
<br />lottesville, there shall be paid one hundred dollars for each person so
<br />engaged or employed in the City of Charlottesville, when he travels on
<br />foot, and when he peddles otherwise than on foot, the tax shall be two
<br />hundred dollars, except that tax on peddlers of ice, wood, meat, milk,
<br />butter, eggs, poultry, fish, oysters, game vegetables, fruit or other
<br />family supplies of a perishable nature not grown or produced by
<br />them, shall be fifty dollars for each vehicle used in such peddling in
<br />the City of Charlottesville.
<br />Every vehicle used in peddling as aforesaid shall have conspicu-
<br />ously displayed thereon the name of the peddler using the same, to-
<br />gether with the street and number, city and state of his residence.
<br />Nothing in this section shall be construed to require of any
<br />farmer a peddler's license for the privilege of selling or peddling farm
<br />products, wood, or charcoal grown or produced by him.
<br />Every license issued under this section shall expire on the
<br />thirtieth day of April of each year. No license issued under this section
<br />shall be prorated.
<br />A ) Peddlers—Producers' Certificate.
<br />1. No city license shall be required of peddlers of ice, wood,
<br />meat, milk, butter, eggs, poultry, fish, oysters, game, vegetables,
<br />fruit, or other family supplies of a perishable nature grown or pro-
<br />duced by them and not purchased by them for sale.
<br />2. But every such peddler of family supplies of a perishable
<br />nature grown or produced by him and not purchased by him for sale
<br />shall on or before January first of each year file with the Commis-
<br />sioner of Revenue of this city a certificate in duplicate under oath in
<br />which shall be given the name and post office address of the applicant,
<br />the location of the land on which the family supplies of a perishable
<br />nature are produced, or are to be produced whether the applicant is
<br />the owner thereof, or renter, and in the latter case, the name of the
<br />landlord or owner and the time from which and to which the lease is
<br />to run.
<br />3. Upon receipt of such certificate and such other evidence un-
<br />der oath as may be sufficient to establish the fact that the applicant is
<br />entitled to the certificate, the Commissioner of Revenue shall endorse
<br />on one copy of such certificate the fact and date of its filing, and shall
<br />dleiver such copy to the applicant, and such applicant shall thereafter
<br />at all times while he is engaged in peddling within this city, have such
<br />copy in his possession and upon request by an officer of the City
<br />charged with enforcing of the license ordinance, exhibit such certifi-
<br />cate. The Commissioner of Revenue may administer the oaths re-
<br />quired by this subsection.
<br />4.. Any officer charged with the enforcement of the license ordi-
<br />nance of this city may at any time question any peddler claiming ex-
<br />emption from city license taxation and may require of such peddler
<br />an affidavit in support of any claim made by such peddler that the
<br />produce then in or on his vehicle was grown or produced by hien.
<br />5. The word "peddler" or "peddlers," as used in this subsection
<br />shall be construed as including their bona fide employees.
<br />6. Any peddler failing to exhibit such certificate in violation of
<br />this subsection, or making any false statement in the certificate or affi-
<br />davit aforesaid, or by permitting the certificate obtained by him to be
<br />used in the sale of any family supplies of a perishable nature not
<br />grown or produced by him, shall upon conviction, be fined not less
<br />than five dollars nor more than fifty dollars for each offense, and upon
<br />failure to pay the said fine shall be confined in the city jail for not less
<br />than ten days nor more than thirty days.
<br />63. Photographers.
<br />Every person, firm or corporation engaged in the business as a
<br />photographer shall pay a license tax of....................$25.00, and where
<br />the gross receipts exceed $2,000.00 the tax shall be 30c on each
<br />$100.00 in addition thereto.
<br />All persons canvassing this city for copying pictures of any descrip-
<br />tion shall pay a license tax of one hundred fifty dollars ($150.00).
<br />Any itinerant daguerrean or photographic artist, or any person taking
<br />orders in this city on the ticket or other plan for photographs to be
<br />delivered or furnished by photographers shall pay a license tax of
<br />one hundred dollars ($100.00), provided, that said license shall
<br />not be required of persons taking orders for photographs licensed by
<br />this city and having a fixed place of business in this city.
<br />64. Plumbers.
<br />Every person, firm or corporation engaged in operating as a
<br />plumber shall pay a license tax of..........................$25.00, and where
<br />the gross receipts exceed $2,000.00 the tax shall be 15c on each
<br />$100.00 in addition thereto. All gross receipts for plumbing con-
<br />tracting shall be reported and taxed under this section, and a separate
<br />contractor's license shall not be required.
<br />65. Potato Chip Manufacturers.
<br />Every person, firm or corporation engaged in the manufacture of
<br />potato chips shall pay a license tax of....................$25.00, and where
<br />the gross receipts exceed $2,000.00 the tax shall be 25c on each
<br />$100.00 in addition thereto.
<br />66. Printing Office—job.
<br />On every person, firm or corporation engaged in the business of
<br />operating -a:printing establishment the tax shall be..................$25.00,
<br />and where the gross receipts exceed $2,000.00 the tax shall be 22c
<br />on each $100.00 in addition thereto.
<br />67. Professional Occupations.
<br />Every person conducting or engaging in any of the following
<br />professional occupations in this City shall pay for the privilege an an-
<br />nual license tax of....................................................................$25.00
<br />and where the gross receipts, fees or commissions during the preced-
<br />ing calendar year exceeded $2,500.00 the license tax shall be 75c on
<br />each $100.00 in addition thereto.
<br />Real Estate salesmen shall be considered members of the respec-
<br />tive real estate firms. The gross receipts, fees or commissions of any
<br />firm may for the purpose of this section be divided among the mem-
<br />bers or associates of said firm or corporation to secure a license here-
<br />under.
<br />The Commissioner of Revenue shall not issue a license to any
<br />person, firm or salesman until such person, firm or salesman shall
<br />produce a license issued by the Virginia Real Estate Commission
<br />showing that such person, firm or salesman has duly qualified to do
<br />business in Virginia.
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