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18 CITY OF CHARLOTTESVILLE
<br />shall pay a retail merchant's license, which license shall be
<br />based on the gross receipts of such person, firm. or corporation.
<br />58. Motor Freight Terminals.
<br />Every person, firm or corporation maintaining or operating
<br />in the City of Charlottesville any freight terminal for the pur-
<br />pose of receiving or discharging freight carried or to be car-
<br />ried by any motor vehicle freight carrier shall pay a specific
<br />license tax of $250.00.
<br />59. Musicians—Itinerant.
<br />Every itinerant musician performing in the streets of this
<br />city, such as organ -grinders, bag -pipe blowers, etc., shall pay a
<br />specific license tax of twenty-five dollars ($25) per day.
<br />60. Outside Agents.
<br />Any person residing or having his or their principal office
<br />within the State who is not a licensed merchant in the City of
<br />Charlottesville who shall sell or offer to sell, either direct or by
<br />sample card or representation, or who shall solicit or take
<br />orders for the sale of any goods, wares or merchandise to any
<br />purchaser within the City, except to a licensed merchant shall
<br />pay for the privilege a license tax on gross sales so made dur-
<br />ing the preceding calendar year as follows:
<br />If the amount of such gross sales shall not exceed $2,000.00
<br />the tax shall be ..........................$25.00.
<br />On all such gross sales over $2,000.00 the tax shall be 30c
<br />on each $100.00 in excess of $2,000.00.
<br />61. Pawnbrokers.
<br />On every license to a pawnbroker the specific license tax
<br />shall be five hundred dollars ($500) for one year or fractional
<br />part thereof. NOT TRANSFERABLE.
<br />62. (a) Peddlers.
<br />Any person who shall carry from place to place, any goods,
<br />wares, or merchandise, and offer to sell or barter the same, or
<br />actually sell or barter the same, shall be deemed a peddler, and
<br />any person licensed as a peddler may sell, or he may exchange
<br />the same for other articles.
<br />A peddler's license shall not be transferable, and any person
<br />so licensed shall endorse his name on said license, and such li-
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<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 City 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 City
<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 />r J his residence.
<br />f 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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