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TAXES ON LICENSES 19
<br />cense shall confer authority to sell within the City of Char-
<br />lottesville.
<br />Any peddler who shall peddle for sale or sell or barter with-
<br />out a license shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and on convic-
<br />tion thereof shall be fined not less than twenty-five dollars,
<br />and not more than one hundred dollars for each offense; and
<br />any person selling or offering to sell as a peddler shall exhibit
<br />his license on demand of any citizen of this city; and upon his
<br />failure or refusal to do so he shall be subject to the penalties
<br />for peddling without a license.
<br />All persons who do not keep a regular place of business
<br />(whether it be a house or a vacant lot, or elsewhere), open at
<br />all times in regular business hours and at the same place, who
<br />shall offer for sale goods, wares and merchandise, shall be
<br />deemed peddlers under this section. All persons who keep a
<br />regular place of business, open at all times in regular hours
<br />and at the same place, who shall elsewhere than at such place
<br />of business, personally, or through their agent, offer for sale
<br />or sell, and at the time of such offering for sale, deliver goods,
<br />wares and merchandise, shall also be deemed peddlers as above,
<br />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,
<br />butter, eggs, poultry, fish,. oysters, game, vegetables, fruit or
<br />other family supplies of a perishable nature grown or produced
<br />by them and not purchased by them for sale.
<br />For the privilege of peddling or bartering in the City of
<br />Charlottesville, there shall be paid one hundred dollars for each
<br />person so engaged or employed in the Citv of Charlottesville,
<br />when he travels on foot, and when he peddles otherwise than
<br />on foot, the tax shall be two hundred dollars, except that tax
<br />on peddlers of ice, wood, meat, milk, butter, eggs, poultry, fish,
<br />oysters, game, vegetables, fruit or other family supplies of a
<br />perishable nature not grown or produced by them, shall be
<br />fifty dollars for each vehicle used in such peddling in the Cit`
<br />of Charlottesville.
<br />Every vehicle used in peddling as aforesaid shall have con-
<br />spicuously displayed thereon the name of the peddler using the
<br />same, together with the street and number, city and state of
<br />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 ped-
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