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34 CITY OF CHARLOTTESVILLE <br />On each automatic baggage or parcel ma- <br />chine used for the storage of baggage or <br />parcels, for each receptacle .................... .25 <br />Provided, however, that this section shall not be construed <br />to permit the keeping, -maintaining, exhibiting or operating of <br />any slot machine or device in which the element of chance is <br />employed, or which gives out slugs or checks or devices which <br />may be used to operate the machine again, or gives any prize <br />or any article other than the article of merchandise or music <br />in payment of which the coin was originally deposited. <br />Any person having or maintaining any such slot machine <br />the licensing of which is prohibited by this section shall be <br />fined not less than $5.00 nor more than $100.00 for each day <br />such machine was used, and such machine shall be confiscated <br />and destroyed. <br />Each license issued shall refer to the manufacturer's num- <br />ber of the machine, or if the machine has no such number the <br />license must be pasted in a conspicious place on the machine. <br />(b) In addition to the license tax hereinabove imposed in <br />respect to each machine, every person, firm or corporation <br />selling, leasing, renting or otherwise furnishing a slot machine <br />or machines to others furnishing music or amusement, other <br />than devices or machines .affording rides to children, shall be <br />deemed a slot machine operator and shall pay an annual <br />license tax of $150.00. <br />(c) No part of this section shall be construed to apply to <br />pay telephones or to slot machines used for the purpose of <br />vending individual sanitary drinking cups or United States <br />postage stamps, and subsection (b) hereof shall not be con- <br />strued to apply to operators of automatic baggage or parcel <br />checking machines; nor shall this section relieve any person <br />from the obligations imposed by Section 39 upon the amuse- <br />ment devices therein described. <br />Every person, firm or corporation placing vending ma- <br />chines in the City shall furnish the Commissioner of Revenue <br />on January 1st of each year, the location and the make of each <br />machine owned. Every vending machine shall be plainly <br />marked by the owner thereof with the name and address of <br />such owner. <br />Regularly licensed retail merchants paying retail mer- <br />chants License Tax on their sales at retail shall not be required <br />